Larry Gorman

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I'm a retired firefighter who, after my January 2009 divorce, decided to become a fulltime RVer so I could see the USA. Since the beginning of The Great Adventure in March 2010, I have seen most of the attractions on my American bucket list, save attractions isolated in massive urban areas such as New York City or San Francisco where convenient RV parks are virtually non-existent. The last ten years have been phenomenal and have allowed me to spend at least one week in all fifty states, but it is now time for Phase 2 of The Great Adventure. My original plan was to head for Europe in March 2020, but COVID closed the Moroccan boarders the day after my arrival in Casablanca. I ended up on an evacuation flight, thanks to the U.S. State Department, with a fistful of "vouchers for future travel." After the dust settled, I bought a single-wide mobile home in a 55+ community in Mesa AZ and sold the truck and fifth wheel.

Now it's 2022 and time to redeem those vouchers. I have a shorter 5 month, 8 tour trip planned for May to October 2022. I am looking forward to meeting lots of new and interesting people, but I will be very busy with only evenings, generally, to post on my blog. I have an idea of how I want to disseminate information about my European adventures but am not sure of exactly how the end product will unfold. At a minimum, I will do my best to pass along my location and a few pictures, and I hope to do so in a timely fashion. Now that I have a home that is attached to Mother Earth, I will be assuming a less nomadic lifestyle after my return to the US in Fall 2022. My escapes from the summer heat in Arizona will take me to cities where RV parks were virtually non-existent and to areas that my crosshairs just didn't find like upstate New York and the Baseball Hall of Fame and Niagara Falls. All that having been said, I have a January 2023 cruise planned that will depart Florida, pass through the Panama Canal, sail the west coast of South America, visit Antarctica, sail north along the east coast of South America (including several days on the Amazon River) and then return to Florida. At least I'll have to unpack and pack my suitcase only once during the 75-day cruise!