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The Unexpected Thrash – Part I
April 10, 2025 — Day 5 Spacious Skies French Pond Campground, Henniker, NH — Cracker Barrel East Greenbush, NY We couldn’t really sleep in late because the campground had an 11AM check out time. Usually you have until noon although 11AM isn’t that unusual. I think we had one campground where we had a 5pm check out time! After getting up, Susan looked at the weather and said, “Uh oh, snow coming, 2 days in a row.” It would be a night time snow but the roads would be nasty early. So we couldn’t even wait a day and make the long push to Bear, DE in one stretch on…
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34 Love Songs
April 9, 2025 — Day 4 Spacious Skies French Pond Campground, Henniker, NH We slept in, way in. We were tired after the concert last night, we usually don’t stay up very late but the bitter cold and 20-25mph winds just chilled us to the bone walking the 0.3 miles back to the car, and, well, that woke us up. We didn’t hit the bed until 1AM! We got up around 10AM, yes 10AM. Had an extremely slow morning. Paul had a late shower and then we hit the grocery store to get some things we were out of. Funny thing is, when we’re on the road we’re always finding…
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35 Love Songs
April 8, 2025 — Day 3 Northwoods Brewery, Northwood NH — Spacious Skies French Pond Campground, Henniker, NH We had a very slow morning, not because we slept in but because we only had a 45 minute drive to the next campground and we couldn’t check in until 2pm. Plus, it was snowing, not enough to cover the ground, but we didn’t know if they’d be salting the roads. And it was still snowing lightly when we left around quarter to 2. (susan here: The the cool thing about Harvest Hosts is that you roll in and you’ve got 24 hours to get gone. We got in at dinner time…
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Brrrr….
April 7, 2025 — Day 2 Redmond Fleet, Hudson, NH — Northwoods Brewery, Northwood NH We both woke up around 5AM, it was just too cold to sleep, worse it was too cold to get up. We ventured out of bed briefly to tend to nature’s call then dove back under the covers & stayed in bed until the last minute, somewhere around 7 am and turned ourselves into ice cubes. Susan got the Thermapen & it said it was 57 degrees in the coach. Brr! We drank coffee (susan) and tea (paul), and watched the falling snow waiting for Redmond Fleet to open up at 8AM. Easy key drop-off…
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A Moose, a Beaver and Turkeys Walk Into a Bar
April 6, 2025 — Day 1 Keene, NH to Redmond Fleet Services, Hudson, NH We’re off on adventure again. This is just a short shakedown trip, we needed to get the annual service done on Clifford and that’s in Hudson NH on April 7th. And on the 8th and 9th we’re seeing one of our favorite bands play a 2 day concert in Concord, NH. (susan here: not 2 days straight, 2 evenings! They’d be hoarse and exhausted if it were 48 hours! But you, gentle readers, figured that out didn’t you. I didn’t have to insert my comments here. <g>) So why not have a shake down cruise before…
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It’s Not COVID Because I Can Taste Breakfast
November 3, 2024 — Day 24 White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Surprise AZ Just a quick note. We’re staying an extra day, not for fun. The parts to fix the RV’s slides didn’t come in until Saturday, actually about an hour before the wedding started! The mobile RV Repair person offered to come by on Sunday to install them, which he did. We weren’t his only Sunday repair plus he was leaving for a week’s vacation on Monday so the repair had to be done Sunday afternoon. We were all buttoned up around 3:30-4pm so we just had a leisurely evening. There was an amazing sunset! And a rainbow sunset…
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We Fought the Law and We Won
October 24, 2024 – Day 14 Point of Rocks Campground, Prescott, AZ — White Tank Regional Park, Surprise AZ We had a really short day today, so we did the short hike down to the water. The trail was fairly easy and pretty nice. We both shed our outer wear within minutes. It is cool in the shade but hot in the sun. We didn’t see any interesting water birds down at the lake, it smelled pretty bad from the blue green algae, so we didn’t hang around long. We saw Spotted Towhees. There were Mallards and Cormorants. Two very successful species as we see them pretty much everywhere we’ve…
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Granite Mountain Hotshots
October 23, 2024 – Day 13 Point of Rocks Campground, Prescott AZ In the morning we called CoachNet, the RV “AAA” to find us a mobile RV tech in the Phoenix area. They called back in about half an hour, but since Verizon changed Paul’s number temporarily last night, Paul’s phone didn’t have the correct number, and that created all kinds of confusion. But it all worked out and we have a mechanic coming out on the 29th. Then back to the Verizon store and 50 minutes later his phone was working properly. The Verizon agent recommended a Hawaiian BBQ for lunch. It was good, but not great. (susan here:…
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We’re Looking For Plan B
October 22, 2024 – Day 12Point of Rocks Campground, Prescott AZ (Sorry for the click-bait title, titling short blogs is hard. This is a short blog.) Not a lot happened today. Paul fixed the broken DC to DC charger. Our new batteries are wonderful but we’re still running out and left wondering why. Well, before the trip Paul blew a 200A fuse trying to fix the hydraulic pump that runs the jacks and slides. It turns out that that also blew the 60A circuit breaker for the DC-DC charger which is that device charges the house batteries from the RV alternator while driving. Resetting a circuit breaker should be easy,…
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Frost Warning
October 21, 2024 – Day 11Red Rock Park, Churchrock, NM — Point of Rocks Campground, Prescott AZ Remember how we mentioned we were idiots for having such a late start? We were disappointed that we missed much of the glowing red rocks last night because we we got in late and were driving around until dark to find a place to park. We decided to get up early and go for a hike in the rocks. It was cold! We were greeted by frost on the Jeep! We bundled up and headed out. The trail was pretty easy at the start and the views were fantastic. Of course, the red…