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Brrrr….
April 7, 2025 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 then breakfast! We…
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A Moose, a Beaver and Turkeys Walk Into a Bar
April 6, 2025 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 the “real” trip…
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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…
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No Fish
October 20, 2024 – Day 10 Lake Ute State Park, Logan, UT — Red Rock Park, Churchrock, NM We wanted to have a late start. Why did we want a late start? Because we are idiots. When traveling, you never want a late start because things happen that delay you. But Paul got to play radio so we’ll pretend that was the plan all along. Lake Ute, is, well, a Lake and many people fish at Lakes. Can you imagine what it would smell like if the fish bits were left in the bins, yikes! (susan here: Paul thinks this trash can is funny but Trash Kans from the other…
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Gray Hair Pony Tail Society
October 19, 2024 – Day 9 Cracker Barrel, Edmond, Ok — Lake Ute State Park, Logan, UT We woke early. That’s pretty common for us when driving west because we’re still kind of sort of on some other time zone. The Cracker Barrel lot was fairly empty. We were just thinking about having breakfast—inside our RV, not inside the Barrel — then we noticed the parking lot was really getting full. It was real Saturday morning as opposed to, say, a Tuesday morning which for us is Saturday, because “every day is Saturday” when you’re retired. (Thanks go to Susan’s cousin Donna for that witty turn of a phrase). So…
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Stop For Beer
October 18, 2024 – Day 8Cracker Barrel, Fenton, MO — Cracker Barrel, Edmond, OK It was just a long travel day today. We decided to try for 500 miles. We called 469 miles “close enough.” There are two reasons for this. First we want to see how hard it is (it was hard before the new suspension). Plus with the problems we had in Lafayette, we had a lot of lost ground to gain back to get back on “schedule.” Cuba, MO Families and dogs welcome!? Susan insisted this be in the blog. They’re the #2 attraction in MO. (we’ll wait for you to get the joke) Mark Twain National…