ON THE ROAD AGAIN.
Day 8 – Beginning of Week 2 and last week we put 1,174 miles on the RV & travelled from the Hudson Valley in NY through PA, OH, IN, IL, & some of IA; visiting 6 states & staying at 5 different campgrounds. We saw lots of farmlands, went to a winery, visited an RV museum & a Raptor Center, and spent a couple of days with friends. Rolling hills, trees, lakes, flatlands, farms, & corn. We’re looking forward to the changes that this coming week will bring.
232 miles
Day 7 – We got up at 6:30 a.m., 60 degrees, light wind. Pretty wet out from all the rain last night. Rob stuck the Iowa sticker on the travel map, new territory for us. We left at 8:30 with Mark & Donna; it had become quite windy out, otherwise a gorgeous day.
Day 6 – A few more campers have come into our loop but it’s not at all full (the weekend hasn’t quite begun yet). When we were driving out, at the dump site near the entrance, that loop (by the Lake) was completely full. We got up at 6:15 a.m. because we wanted to get an earlier start. We’d been warned that there was a big football game in Iowa at 2:30 which could effect traffic on I-80W. Before leaving Illinois, we added the State to our travel map. We left Illini State Park at 8:30 a.m., 69 degrees, clear & sunny.
Day 5 – It was nice not to have to get up & hit the road yesterday morning. We’ve enjoyed hearing the clip-clop of the horses as they go by pulling the Amish buggies. But we’re looking forward to reaching Oregon or California, wherever we end up, and then we’ll slow down the pace & spend quality time exploring. Today we will travel through northern Indiana & into northern Illinois, driving beyond Chicago to Illini State Park in Marseilles, IL. Because it’s a weekend night, we made reservations in advance after hearing that the State Parks tend to book up on the weekends.
Day 4 – 57 degrees & cloudy at 7:50 a.m. when Rob got up; I slept until 8:15. The kitties slept late, too. We are spending the morning catching up on some things, then heading out for some exploring. By noon, many campers had checked out & for now we have no one on either side of us. It’s 64 degrees & humid at 12:30 p.m.; all 4 cats are sleeping soundly.
Day 3 – We got up at 7 a.m. again, 62 degrees, humid & cloudy. A restful night; we’d stay here again off-season. We left Geneva State Park at 9:05 but after driving a short distance we realized we’d forgotten to take pictures of our campsite & the campground sign. We turned around and went back to the campground and got a picture of the sign at least. (We like to look back at the campground pictures & knew we’d be kicking ourselves for not doing that.)
Day 2 – We both slept well; funny how just driving can make you tired. The cats must’ve slept well, too, because it was 6:30 a.m. before they started wreaking havoc (their way of getting us to get up & make breakfast). We got up at 7 a.m., 50 degrees & very foggy.
Day 1 – There’s so much uncertainty in the air! Hurricane Irma is currently destroying Florida, not long after Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas. It’s not quite mid-September, and it’s usually warm to hot in NY. But it appears we’ll be having an early Fall this year; some of the leaves are already turning colors & for the first time since we moved to NY in 1989, we’ve had to use the heat at night in September. Southern California is burning, Mexico just had a HUGE earthquake, people are dying from the West Nile Virus, and we won’t even begin to discuss the political unrest here & around the world…..
Hello everyone; we hope you’ve all had a great summer. We have just begun Trip #3 and we’re getting the blog up & running again. We last wrote at the beginning of Trip #2 when we left home for Maine in June. We’d decided not to write a public blog while in Maine – after all, how boring would it be to read about days spent camping on Casco Bay at a farm, or about spending a week in Belfast right on Penobscot Bay? And then there were 4 nights spent on the Schoodic Peninsula section of Acadia National Park.
