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Thursday, 6/24/2021 – It sure has been a busy couple of weeks. We did head out as planned on Saturday, June 12th from Virginia Beach. We crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel on a drizzly overcast day. The crossing was uneventful but it sure was easier when I used to cross it by car rather than by motor home. The lanes were much narrower than I remember, especially in the tunnels with traffic coming towards you. The semi-trucks and campers coming towards you is nerve wracking enough but the scariest site is a rental camper coming towards you when the driver doesn’t always know where the center line is.
We spent that night in a campground in Delaware before heading off to the Pocono’s in Pennsylvania. There we spent two nights at a nice but hilly campground. We enjoyed a couple of meals out and a bit of hiking before beginning the final leg of our trip to Massachusetts.
The plan was to spend a week at a campground at Lake George, New York for a week. We arrived at the campground but for the first time in eight years on the road, we were unable to park on a site where we were able to be level. The only time we did end up level, our rear tires were off the ground and the site was so uneven that I worried about our hydraulic jacks. After two hours of trying and being unable to find another site, we contacted my sister in Massachusetts to see if we could arrive a week early. After a “no problem” from them we continued our journey. By the time we arrived at “Camp Sawash”, the home of my sister and her family, we had been on the road for almost 12 hours.
Once there we were able to relax and enjoy the company of family. Among other activities we enjoyed a birthday party with all of my sister’s family and we headed off for a night out for some dining and live music. We also spent this past Sunday enjoying Father’s Day with my sister’s entire family as well as two of our own kids and their families including six of our grandchildren. It was wonderful day and so good to hug everyone again.
Unfortunately, on Sunday night I made a disappointing discovery. For those of you who have followed our posts over the years you may remember that we’ve had cable issues with one of our slides in the past. So yes, for the third time now one of the cables required to bring our long slide in has frayed and is no longer usable. This means that once we do bring the slide back in it cannot go back out until it is repaired. This reduces the size of our living area considerably and eliminates access to some critical storage areas such as our bureau drawers. I’ve contacted every RV Repair Service company in the area and we are not feeling optimistic. Only one has given us any hope at all so we’re anxiously waiting to hear from him. We should know by the end of the week.
Now it’s time to just relax and enjoy the company of our family and friends. Our schedule is packed full over the next two weeks with visits and activities including an overdue visit with my mom. In two weeks we head off for a family camping trip to New Hampshire where we will take over seven adjoining campsites and will be full of my two sister’s families including lots of kids. It’ll be a lot be fun.
We spent that night in a campground in Delaware before heading off to the Pocono’s in Pennsylvania. There we spent two nights at a nice but hilly campground. We enjoyed a couple of meals out and a bit of hiking before beginning the final leg of our trip to Massachusetts.
The plan was to spend a week at a campground at Lake George, New York for a week. We arrived at the campground but for the first time in eight years on the road, we were unable to park on a site where we were able to be level. The only time we did end up level, our rear tires were off the ground and the site was so uneven that I worried about our hydraulic jacks. After two hours of trying and being unable to find another site, we contacted my sister in Massachusetts to see if we could arrive a week early. After a “no problem” from them we continued our journey. By the time we arrived at “Camp Sawash”, the home of my sister and her family, we had been on the road for almost 12 hours.
Once there we were able to relax and enjoy the company of family. Among other activities we enjoyed a birthday party with all of my sister’s family and we headed off for a night out for some dining and live music. We also spent this past Sunday enjoying Father’s Day with my sister’s entire family as well as two of our own kids and their families including six of our grandchildren. It was wonderful day and so good to hug everyone again.
Unfortunately, on Sunday night I made a disappointing discovery. For those of you who have followed our posts over the years you may remember that we’ve had cable issues with one of our slides in the past. So yes, for the third time now one of the cables required to bring our long slide in has frayed and is no longer usable. This means that once we do bring the slide back in it cannot go back out until it is repaired. This reduces the size of our living area considerably and eliminates access to some critical storage areas such as our bureau drawers. I’ve contacted every RV Repair Service company in the area and we are not feeling optimistic. Only one has given us any hope at all so we’re anxiously waiting to hear from him. We should know by the end of the week.
Now it’s time to just relax and enjoy the company of our family and friends. Our schedule is packed full over the next two weeks with visits and activities including an overdue visit with my mom. In two weeks we head off for a family camping trip to New Hampshire where we will take over seven adjoining campsites and will be full of my two sister’s families including lots of kids. It’ll be a lot be fun.
Recent Updates:
05/26/2021 We've posted a new blog entry today. It's a bit different than any of our previous blogs. Due to the past 18 months being so unusual due to the Covid virus we thought we'd post our log entries for that period rather than a summary. We think you may find it interesting as you read through and hear about our life and plans before, and after the outbreak.
05/26/2021 We also posted a new photo album containing some pictures of our time off the road due to Covid. They include pictures from our pre-covid days, our hurricane, our deep freeze and some pictures of how we dealt with the boredom.
Recent Updates:
05/26/2021 We've posted a new blog entry today. It's a bit different than any of our previous blogs. Due to the past 18 months being so unusual due to the Covid virus we thought we'd post our log entries for that period rather than a summary. We think you may find it interesting as you read through and hear about our life and plans before, and after the outbreak.
05/26/2021 We also posted a new photo album containing some pictures of our time off the road due to Covid. They include pictures from our pre-covid days, our hurricane, our deep freeze and some pictures of how we dealt with the boredom.
Next destinations...
Next destinations...
Following our camping trip to New Hampshire we’ll be returning to Camp Sawash for a couple of weeks for more visits with family and friends before returning to New Hampshire for another two weeks of camping. This time it’ll only be Claudia and I but we’ll have visits from two of our kids and our grandkids. Following that camping trip we’ll begin our trip back to Texas with a stop in North Carolina to revisit our daughter and her family, this time near their home.
