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Published: July 21st 2008
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Hi gang here comes the blog, however we have had many request of, "so..where are you now"? We are currently in Wisconsin and loving it but not their mosquitoes. More on that will come later, as our blogs catch up with our travels.
Be sure to click next page to see the next page's of photo's at the bottom of blog.
Well, we finally got to rolling down the highway on our adventure June 3rd. It took us so much longer to leave than we thought that I aptly gave us the handle of Slow Pokey for our blog. It seems to be fitting very well considering how long it is taking us to get anywhere.
The first leg was to get to New Jersey as soon as possible to have lots of time to be with Keri (Linda’s Daughter) before she left for Alaska. But, I am jumping ahead a bit; you’ll just have to wait for Linda’s tall tales of Big City adventures that will follow this entry. We are slowly rolling out the various stops on to this site one piece at a time. Hopefully our memories of the places and happenings are all
Big Red
Ain't she perty he he he. in tact (thank goodness for pictures). We are having those “Oh Yeah, I remember that” as we filter through the ten million photo’s we have.
We will take turns blogging so uuuuu’s can get the best of both of our wacky worlds!
Our first actual stop was in a county park in the Charlotte NC area. We arrived at dark and left the next AM forgetting to take any pictures. Take my word for it, it was pretty. So the first shots are of a rest area or two and then into Virginia, The Shenandoah Valley area. Our Rig goes by the name ‘Big Red’, I think you can see why. I named her and I can’t say Linda loved it but she really did not detest it either so there ya go. What can I say simple is my middle name, Really!
Our stay in Virginia gets really mixed reviews. We have a time share thing that’s a point’s based system. We can go to any resort that’s in our club. Anyway they started adding a few RV resorts to some of the properties. Shenandoah Crossing being one of them. The area is really very pretty
but the resort mostly sucked. Can I say that here? No one’s coming I guess it’s okay. It sounded really great in the brochure. Let’s see we get an outdoor kitchen, fire pit, lounge chairs, dining table and chairs, extra seating areas, landscaped patio’s and Oh yeah the grand daddy of them all, A Private HOT TUB!!! Woooweee, we hit the jackpot we thought, we’ll take it. And it’s free (kinda, we already pay for the time share at some other time of year) so we barely get there after encountering a storm straight out of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Toto is that you? I don’t think I have ever had such a tight grip on the wheel of Big Red as that day. I could not see more than an Inch in front of my nose. We pulled over, looked at one another and I said #@&^^$$&** Cow! Linda replied and then we moved on when it was safe. The couple of pictures out the front of Red are us unknowingly driving into The OZ fest. Beautiful country until it gets really, really dark.
We’ll the following pictures are all that the lovely brochure told us it would
NC Sign
These get a little better further into the trip be. Accept that it did not take into account that it is Brand, Brand, Brand new (why do I keep repeating myself?) and the newly planted trees are not nearly large enough to shade the 20 acres of concrete that everything sits on. Did I mention the first week we were out was the crazy record braking high nineties. So we’ll make the best of it. We off loaded the camper and went to go find town. MEAN while (yes I meant to Capitalize that) the brow raiser patrol came around to inspect the grounds. They left us a note to come to the office and see them. I instantly had flash backs to the 7th grade and was told I had to go to the principal’s office. I know what I did back then but I am not sure what I did this time (unless they did not care for my soaking undies drying on the back ladder) HMMM? So we call instead and they tell us they will be down to see us shortly. Nothing like suspense. We wait and wonder till the brow patrol shows up with his operations manual in hand. “Well the deal is” he
groovy goober
rest stop in NC say’s we had to make some decisions when we built on the RV part of the resort about the types of RV’s we would allow in. Yes our Big Red was not welcome in this exclusive resort that has no visitors but us. Okay there was one more RV (the right kind) and 150 empty rooms in the house. Well they can take their exclusive owner’s manual and I’ll see ya later. “But” he quickly says as my face is starting to contort, “I have talked to the great OZ (manager) and we agree that this is not your fault that the booking agent was at fault so we are going to let you stay this ONE TIME!” Oh gee that’s swell of you can we really stay! Yes, you may stay but know that you may not ever come back in THAT again! WOW, the great OZ has spoken and we surly will never return again. The end
The last picture for this part of our story is the bridge (yellow brick road) leading us on to roads better traveled.
The remaining pictures are us passing thru Pennsylvania. We will pass thru again but this was a one
First Night Out
The only interior shot and the only shot in NC oh well! See the goober smile. day journey in the corner of the state. Stay tuned for the next adventures in Jersey.
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Here we go!
I'm so excited to read your first leg!, what a great idea, you each take turns writing. And Chris I gotta tell ya you started off great, I love the trip to OZ. Hilarious.! Can't wait to see more.