Posted on 02/20/2023 11:34:22 AM PST by mairdie
Our one and only RV trip. Husband was stopped by the Mississippi River, so we watched soybeans grow for a month while searching the web for a lower bridge or a higher guardrail. The RV now sits as our house addition.
I didn't love leaving home, so basically I created home in the RV. Queen Anne tables, silver, lantern lighting, incredible organization so that there was a traveling layout and a settled one. Dog beds everywhere.
The intention was to attend the National Association of Broadcaster's meeting in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, husband's fear of heights got us at the Mississippi River. We landed in an RV park and stayed watching the soybeans grow while he searched the internet for a bridge he thought he could go over. We did finally find one. But then we hit another river. So that was it for Westward, Ho!
But we had a wonderfully relaxing trip and the dogs adored having the attention. It turned into a genealogy trip. Most of my time was spent making music videos, as husband had arranged a new computer setup to lure me into the motorhome.
Then husband drove back VERY, VERY slowly. And he never took it out again. So now we have a house addition beside the house.
Get a life.
It’s been a magnificent life. But would have loved to have traveled more in the RV. What’s your life like? Good, I hope.
PING to an RV trip music video.
Very nice. I hated the road, though I stayed in some very interesting places
Stories, please! Love stories!
We saw the Jelly Belly RV. Dreamed of bumping into Clarence Thomas but never did.
“husband’s fear of heights got us...”
That’s when you need to dose him with some NyQuil and just drive over the bridge while he’s zonked out!
His terror increased as we started home. He started driving the RV at 30 mph and had me drive the car behind the RV. Terrifying with the trucks whipping past. I can’t even describe the guilt I felt making him leave each RV park to drive home, but someone was watching our cats and we HAD to get back. But husband is now safe, well and forgotten all but the good parts. Photographing flowers. And I have a digital video editing setup.
Sounds fun and loving...
Marathon TX. Coming back home from White Sands. Had to stop it was raining like he’ll. Little motel (the kind where you have a little carport) I was wet and smelled diesel fuel. Work truck wouldn’t fit in. Bombarded by hail. It was Thanksgiving eve. Owners were very nice and gave me cardboard for the truck and Dawn soap for me and clothes. And fed me some chicken and rice and beans.
I got more...hurricane Ike was a sonofabitch
I’ll just PM you
I spend much of the year (since kung flu lockdowns) boon docking on public lands. And working remotely on my laptop. My RV is completely self contained and I wired it for USB plugs everywhere and a cell phone booster and a WIFI router running internet through my second cell phone line. I usually stick to the Eastern parts of California, Oregon, and Washington with detours to Montana and Idaho. I am good for at least 2 weeks without having to head back for provisions and dumping the tanks. I am a hermit by nature and love it.
Looking forward! My grandfather prospected White Sands but I don’t think I’ve ever driven thru it. People can be so good. When things get tough you forget the tough and they become war stories. What you remember are the kindnesses.
LOVE IT! I adored being at the computer in the RV. I loved every moment of the soybeans growing and being a hermit is my natural bent, as well. As long as I can create, and look up to see something beautiful, I’m at deep peace with the world.
Those are beautiful parts of the country. At least they were in the 80’s when I was traveling a lot. Scenery makes my heart stop and I’m so frustrated that I don’t have the ability to record the feelings that rise in me as a view becomes a composition.
California is a different world east of I5. In fact all the pacific states are completely different East of I5.
There’s a lot of red west of i5 also.
We lived for a year in Palos Verdes, on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Spectacular year. Most of our driving was along the coast and inland to the deserts. Illinois, where I was raised, is so flat that you see forever. The east coast, where we’ve lived for forty years, is so overgrown with trees and such that you need to find beauty in the closeup plants and forget what distance feels like. Obviously, we’re not on the coast. Sigh.
That looks fun. Nice doggos you got there. I can’t wait to get on the road again.
They were all the best and, unfortunately, their ashes now sit on a shelf in the hallway. But videos like this bring them back to me for precious moments.
Where was your last trip?
Thanks for the ping, mairdie! I love traveling in an RV. Very cute dogs and beautiful RV.
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