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Hey George, Cowboy and Mikey! I was just catching up on the posts, and had

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to go all the way back to page two. We went to Jackson, Mississippi to visit Scott's brother early Saturday morning and came home late that night. About a 4 hour drive. We took his mom and our 15 and 17 year old went with us too. We had a good visit but it was a long day. Sunday we just kind of took it easy.

I did not get to see your post until just now! Man, George, you and your wife have traveled extensively. That's what I hope to do someday, but right now we are not able to. We mostly just take weekend trips, with the exception of vacation. My health keeps me from working more than about 4 hours per day at this point, but I don't drive this thing! I have driven it, but I do not like to be on the freeway with it. I just let Scott drive, and I either watch T.V. or read. So, tell your wife I understand completly about the driving thing.

We are going up to Virginia at the end of September to Parent's Weekend to see our oldest son. That's usually a pretty good trip, in the fall. The trees are beautiful, all different colors and we get to stay on the grounds at VMI.

Right now, with the gas like it is, and so it seems, will go even higher, we might have to be grounded for a while! Ha!

You and your wife have been to alot of neat places. You need to write about some of them and send photos.

Cowboy,
Yes, our RV is almost like the photo you sent, but maybe a little updated. You and Mikey can let me know what you think! Very cute photo, by the way. And the posts that George and Mikey have been posting are breath taking.

Mikey,
That one photo of your driveway was awesome. What month of the year does this happen?

And George, the trees by the barn were beautiful with the dusting of snow!! :)
 
tail than we thought! The traffic was picking up a bit coming home late Saturday night, but thank goodness we left then!

I had to post a photo of the RV, cause Cowboy was calling me a hillbilly and sent a photo to me that I didn't even get to see until this evening. He, Mikey, Wayne and Royal get such pleasure in trying to see where my breaking point is,.............trouble is, with those guys, and add Butch for good measure, I know they are some of my best friends. Love this forum and everyone on it!

Of course the RV was not my idea,....and I hate to admit it, but I do so enjoy it. I can't wait to travel like George and his wife have. I have so many places I want to see. :) Diesal fuel used to be the cheapest gas of all. Right now, I wish it was a hybrid! :(
 
driving that one. She will drive a big ford 350 dually and big horse trailer which is actually
longer and no wider but that one she didn't care for. The Class C she loved and drove it more than I did in the mountains so I could hang out the window with the camera. We stayed 2 winters in it down south and she liked living in it. Ours was diesel and it was not to bad on fuel. It had the Cummings in it and it got 10 mpg as a rule, could get 11.5 on flat in overdrive coupled to a Gear Vendor setup and it would drop to 8 in the mountains and you couldn't get a running start at them. With the Gear Vendor set up it would spit gears coming down in speed but not going up. I put a lot of miles on it before we sold it 2 last 4th of July to a guy and his wife in Chiago. Those rims on your RV look like the 22.5 Alco rims... I remember they well and the tired fingers keeping them looking good. New England salt is not good to anything if left on there. We would run to my daughters down south then I'd spend the day cleaning them and re-polishing.

I know that health problem. I have had a quad bypass and with some left over damage I have to pace myself. I forget and start pushing when I'm having fun, but pay for it for the next 3 days. So I do as they say, listen do your body. I feel better when we are on the road, or maybe my mind is to busy enjoying life to notice the health problems. I know my body likes that dry desert heat better than the cold and damp of winter in New England.

My ears perked up when you mentioned Tenn. We have not been there yet, but have had a few friends tell us to make sure we put it on our list. Virgina is nice also with lots of great history lessons in there. I've been on the Skyline drive many times...Well worth the trip....
We feel everystate has something to offer if you look off the main roads. Thats my problem, I like to travel the back roads rather than main highways when I can. I like the slower pace also. Traveling I'm seldom in a rush to get anywhere. We don't travel as a rule with set dates to be anywhere. In general perhaps like we leave mid May, we will meet up with my buddies in Oregon and Washington say July 1st... If someone says, have you been here or there yet, and it sounds interesting, we go there. We seldom call ahead to a campground as we prefer pot luck. I worked all my life on schedules, and they wanted everything yesterday. I dont' want any in retirement.

We added a laptop and digital camera to our travel pack and sure enjoy looking at them when we are back here at home base. Jane can drive again now, so we have out the travel log and and looking it over so we don't travel over the same path if we don't have to.

Here are a few more pictures of the one we had....

Swampy
 
an Expedition with a trailer hauling our tractor to the deer camp, but even tho it's such a large load, it just does not seem to be as massive as the RV. And I swear there are times when I could have probably reached out my window and touched the semi next to us. It really gets me anxious sometimes,....no most of the time, so that's why I just stay back in the back.

Your RV photos were beautiful! All of this was Scott's idea, but I have to say I am enjoying it. I need to get a license plate that says "Our children bought this for us! We spent their inheritance!" :lol: Oh well, what the hey!

Virginia is beautiful, everytime we have been there anyway! Nate says it gets really really cold at VMI though, but the school is old and they like to keep the cadets marginally miserable. Guess they think it makes them tough! Who knows? Maybe we will meet up someday. What kind of RV did you say you had now? We saw some beautiful fifth wheel homes in Florida!
Where are you looking to going next? :)
 
along, but she don't quite along with that. LOL.....The class C we had was what they call a wide body and it was 103 inches instead of the 98 inches and she did fine with it. but it had the Class C truck cab which gave the illusion it was smaller.... She can drive most anything. She drives my backhoe, trucks, dozer, quad etc and has no problem.... I think she likes riding shotgun in the Class A looking out the window.

We have a Holiday Rambler 5th wheel now. Very well built and laid out just perfect for her and I with plenty of storage. Its the alumilite frame so it only weights in at 7000 lbs with out our stuff in it. The dually don't even know its there. to be honest I like the rear hitch mounts better for backing down. No different than backing a horse trailer. The 5th wheel is nice, pulls nice, but the slow repsonse time in how it backs down annoys me. I do it fine, but if I had to choose just on backing up, it would not be a 5th wheel. I think its just what you get used to and after having horses and boats all mylife, the bumper style is what works best for me.

This 5th wheel has the rear kitchen in it,which I like, no need to carry everything thru the rest of the unit and the bedroom is up in the loft but full stand up type....I'll take some pictures of the inside. Beleive it or not,I don't have any of the inside.

There really are some nice rigs in Florida....Lots of nice used stuff there. One place that sells them there on US 4, LazyDays has about 1500 at any given time.... We have found some really nice ones there when we were into Air Streams... Retired folks get them, park them and thats it...One will pass on or both and its up for sale at really great prices. I had a few salesmen tell me that 75 percent of the Class A rigs go thru Florida at one time or another for sale.

Right now we are trying to decide where we want to go....It gets hard in the fall, as its really nice here in the fall and we hate to be gone. Yet, September and October is a great time to be on the road. We like it in fall, with a small camp fire out doors, nice warm LB Bean shirt on to take off the chill. Hate to say how many times we have just fallen asleep in the chairs watching the fire crackle and die out enjoying the stars or the call of a coyote or barn owl. Who knows how many more years we will be able to do this. Whats the average person get, 75 summers in a life time, I've already used up 63 of them, times a wasting. I've had more than a few friends, have the dream but never got to live it. Dont' want that to happen to Jane & I.

Later this winter after we visit my daughter, if fuel is not out of site, we have tenative plans to cross over on rt 10 into New Mexico and finally rest in and around Yuma, AZ. Then call my to buddies and them will fly down. We want to try a little nugget hunting, perhaps some metorite hunting know full well we will more than likely get skunked, but how can you loose being out in the desert on a quad or horse enjoying wide open spaces. Jane is good at finding dude ranches or just any place to lease one. She will even work the barns for horse use and someone to show her around. LOL, I though I was going to loose her to the horse wranglers in Bryce Canyon, Utah... Great place to ride. I felt the same about Zion. Thats a thing we are discussing now....Its hunting season now out west and we are not sure how many ranches now cater to the hunters and or the saftey of being out there at that time. We deer hunt here on our place but most shots are pretty close or within 100 yards. No so in many areas there. Yet on the other hand, we tend to do the national parks and I have not finished a lot in Montanna.
They close on October 15 so we only have a 6 week window open up that way. The north entrance of Yellowstone is kinda messed up right now also from a earlier in the year mud slide on Bear Highway and we wanted to hit that area again. If guess if thats still closed we will cross over in northern Idaho and them cut across Washington to my buddies. Enough to do for sure, just 6 weeks does what I don't like, puts me on time limits. I prefer to only have to keep and eye on the fuel tanks after 400 miles.

Do you guys pull a toad with you or lease? We have done both. We bring bikes with us also. I'm glad they don't have one out with a horse station in the rear, as Jane would have her horse with her....LOL

Heres a picture of Janes Tow truck.

Swampy
 
making those turns makes me feel like I am going to scrape the side off! :lol: I like Jane's ride. It's really nice. The Fifth Wheels we saw were awesome, as yours sounds like. It doesn't take much for me. I just like a clean bed to sleep in. I have done my time camping in tents and pop ups, sleeping bag on the ground. I'm just to dang old for it now. People can make fun of me all they like, but to me it is fun now. I don't know how the oven works, and I am really in no hurry to find out!

Sounds like you have some good plans. I have never been to a ranch, or had the pleasure of riding many horses. My daughter and son in law own four, and they are going to "The Wagon Races" over this coming Labor Day Weekend. Sounds like a lot of fun, but somehow I don't think they will be in bed at ten o'clock! :lol:

One can never have too many friends, or keep on living at least toward the dream. I think I have been most fortunate in my life. I had a wonderful upbringing, one of many happy memories. Some of the things in my adult life have not gone according to plan, but I have three lovely daughters, grown and married, giving me four grandson's and one granddaughter! Scott and I have two sons, and one daughter that I inherited the day we got married four years ago, so I find myself doing a lot of things "over again", but that's okay, they are good kids. I just wish I was younger.

Send photos of the inside of your RV. I have not seen very many, but most have their individual character and beauty. If I could? I would rather be at the deer camp, snuggled in my bed roll next to my daddy.............my, has it really been that many years ago???
 
campers has ever had the oven used. She feels if she is going to do that, she might as well stay home and I agree. We don't cook in any of the campers except coffee. The rest we do out on the grill, be it breakfast or dinner. IF we are on the move, we are more apt to eat at a truck stop or some place a local suggest. We will use the microwave from time to time but for the most part we use it for a clean bedroom and bathroom. Once we get were we want to go we are on the move till we drop seeing stuff. The bad days we will just kick back but if its nice,we want to see it all. Seldom turn the TV on except for news.

We really enjoy hiking but its getting harder to do. Arthritis is starting to limit my time out there or even detecting. Which is why we look for horses or quads. We like the quads at the big sand dunes. We did them in Oregon, Colorado and Utah. We have sand dunes at Cape Cod, but they don't let you ride them in the summer time. Winter you can on certain trails.

Jane and I had 5 kids. All are grown up and away but one. He is happy here and is the guardian of the farm while we are gone. Makes it nice for us for him to keep things going normal here.

We have been seeing some great prices on used RV class C and A's. We have been talking about maybe buying one out west and leaving it at my friends place. He can use it when he wants and when we want to go, just fly out. It takes a week to drive out, and a week back.... and about 800 gallons of fuel to go out and back. Thats 2000 bucks for fuel. We can fly it for $450 out and back and have 2 more weeks to roam. We are seeing class C's on Ebay, with under 20,000 miles for 10k or less. I like it out west, but hate that first 2000 miles getting out of New England and them the dash across the farm belt. I don't care for flat, yet its the fast way out. A class C is better for us out west on the smaller narrow back roads in the mountains.
We have been on some switch back roads out west where you needed to back up twice in a sharp turn to make the turn on back mountain roads. Also have had to back it down for 3 miles to turn around. Thats when your glad you bought that rear view camera. LOL We toad a jeep cherokee with us with the class A. Do you tow a toad?

Swampy
 
a familiar place to sleep we out on the road is nice,and since you have a kitchen in there you don't have to eat out either.guess the initial expense is tough but you do save some money down the line.
 
The kitchen is for looks! I don't cook anymore unless I just get the urge. That's not ofteN! :lol: Been there and done that! :)
 
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Jane sounds a bit like me!:)
 
these days, with the price of fuel, they are probably fairly inexpensive right now. One day I will be able to travel. .... just not yet!!

Do you get much, if any, snow down your way?? Our snow will start around, oh late November, early December, and hang around for 2-3 months. By March, it is pretty well all gone.

I love Georges' picture of the barn in the snow!!

Take care

Sunny skies

M
 
when we have the bankruptcy auction, don't you think? Actually, we got a really really good deal! I was not bragging at all, I hope you know!

We might get snow once or twice a year. I love it. Mostly we just get ice, and then it gets crazy! It sure is pretty tho. :)
 
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