Hi,
Just a note to let you all know, we have had a good winter trip and are almost home. We are in Hershey, PA and expect to make the final leg home tomorrow. Our trip is nothing like we had planned. We had planned to stay in port A until March 27th but as you have read we left on feb 27th. Due to weather, Linda and I deciding that we were not ready to settle down in one place, and us being concerned about Linda's dad we left early. We tried to take our time on the return journey but as most of you know, when your headed home, it seems that you just want to get there. we have had alot of fun, met a lot of great people, made some new great lifetime friends, seen the signs of tornados(once is enough), stayed in our first state park, connected with friends and family, and spent time enjoying just us. We want to thank Brian and Suzy for watching the house and watering plants, Jeff and Katrina for keeping the homestead cleared of snow and watching over it, all our friends that have stayed in touch , our new, and old, road friends for such fun. Jess for being ready to make us well when we return. you all have made this trip possible, fun, and kept us smiling all the way. Tom and Deb, thank you for keeping us informed about your dad and making it easier for Linda to not worry as much. In closing, Linda and I have so very much to be thankful for it's hard to explain it. I trust that you all know just how much we love you all and want to see you as soon as we can.
PS; be thinking of what we should plan to see next year. I need all the help I can get to find all the neat things in this massive country of ours. Hugs and Smiles, Russ(the pilot) Linda( the phone talker) GPS for getting us there and back. rember: life and all it's pleasures are made possible by making the right choices along the way. hope yours are paying off in the best way.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
March 5, on the way home
Hi-
Its Linda and we are now in Milton, WV. We left Nashville this morning, heading to Hershey, PA, but had to spend one night on the road. It was a longer day than we usually spend travelling. Thought we had found a place to stay in this area, while looking yesterday, but they didn't answer the phone today, so spent quite a bit of time doing that today. I am just so amazed with technology. I have had my phone for almost two years, and never realized, or if I did, used it as a 'smart phone' which I guess it is. I was able to google the weather, maps, campgrounds, all sorts of things. I was exhausted!! Russ only had to drive-I had to do all the work!! We were able to find a KOA park to spend the night in and tomorrow we head to Hershey, PA; our last destination prior to getting home. Fortunately that's only about 300 miles, and we get to see Tim, Jaime, Gavin and Peyton, our PA family. Always love to spend time in Hershey. But I want to mention what we did in Nashville, if only so I will remember.....
We made it into Nashville on Saturday, after weathering the chance of tornadoes in Alabama. We were fortunate and are so grateful for that. There are alot of people who weren't so lucky; many of the areas had been hit just last year and are still recovering.
So onto Nashville. We decided to stay at a park which is close to the Grand Old Opry-just about a mile from there. But that's not where we saw it. The show on Saturday night was at the Ryman, in downtown Nashville. We went into town around 3-4 and just started wandering around. There's about two blocks where all the 'action' seems to be. All sorts of bars/saloons/restaurants with live music playing. We wandered for a while and went into one place. Music was soooooo loud, but good. (note from mr traveler, some old gray haired guy in one place leaned over to me and said that I was too old for bar hopping and that he had them turn up the volume so I could hear it) Glad I didn't spend my younger years in a town like that. And it seems that the groups play for several hours and play for tips, and the tip jar is passed around by a loyal friend of the band. Had a drink and an appetizer-can you believe they didn't have WINE!!!! and left. Wandered some more, went into a few more 'establishments'; Russ was still hungry, so stopped for a hamburg, but were able to listen to some decent music. Its great that you can just go in for a while, put some money in the tip jar, and not even bother to eat or have a drink.
It was finally time to go to the Ryman. Some of the folks appearing were ones we saw last year: Little Jimmy Dickens (91); Jeannie Sieley (or something like that); and the Rocky Top players/singers-I don't need to see them again. Just in case you were not aware of this, the Opry is a live radio show and has intermissions and host for each half hour segment. One host was Mel Tillis (anyone remember him); he's the one who stutters and he still does. He's tall-didn't know that he was so tall, but remember that I really liked him on whatever it was that I saw him on. The last group was EXILE, which sounded familiar to me, but certainly didn't sound Country. The last song they sang and the last song of the night was: I'm going to kiss you all over! I looked at Russ and said, 'this isn't country!' but boy did it rock the house. It was great fun, again for us. I'm not sure if I would want this to be my 'destination' vacation, but I'm glad that we are able to stop since we are 'in the neighborhood'.
On Sunday we travelled to Carthage, TN. We spent the afternoon with Killian Adams, his mother Kelly, and grandmother, Miss Dorothy. Killian is the nephew of our good friend Glenn Adams, and was Glenn's best man at his wedding to Jaimie this past summer. They spent a day with us up at camp the week before they were married. We had a great day then, and told Killian that we wanted to stop to see him while travelling this winter. Carthage is less than an hour from where we were staying in Nashville, so we took advantage of that. It was a really good afternoon. Killian is an enjoyable teenager, and he and his grandmother took us on a tour of the area. It was really fun-and then we had dinner back at their home with them. Russ spent some 'guy' time out with Killian and four wheeler and mini bike, while I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with his Mom and Grandmom. Killian, we are looking forward to seeing you this summer and having more fun with you up at camp!!! More tubing...maybe some water skiing and just enjoying your company. RUSS writting now, Maybe Glenn will even let us hang out during the days he has to work. I hope so, as I need your design and build help on a flexable bike. I just read that Mrs. Navigator has noted her hard work. I did offer to let her drive while I played on the phone, GPS, and maps, but she said no thank you in a very pleasent tone. When it started spitting snow, I got a little concerned as we were still in the " HILLY" part of the trip. Roads stayed dry and it wasn't a bad drive. Looking forward to getting home, but sad to have the heat on and see that the outside temp is dropping and now at 35 and expected to get down to 22 before morning. I am now going to try and insert a few pictures. wish me well. The Driver.
McComb, MS at our first stay at a state park (sunset)
Clouds before Tornado alerts (Cottondale, AL)
From the back this guy looked just like our friend Charlie Angers
Mrs Traveller at a scenic overlook in Difficult,TN near Carthage
Mom Kelly with Killian
Mr and Mrs Galavanter with Killian (don't you just love Russ's spelling)
Grandmom Dorothy and K.
Its Linda and we are now in Milton, WV. We left Nashville this morning, heading to Hershey, PA, but had to spend one night on the road. It was a longer day than we usually spend travelling. Thought we had found a place to stay in this area, while looking yesterday, but they didn't answer the phone today, so spent quite a bit of time doing that today. I am just so amazed with technology. I have had my phone for almost two years, and never realized, or if I did, used it as a 'smart phone' which I guess it is. I was able to google the weather, maps, campgrounds, all sorts of things. I was exhausted!! Russ only had to drive-I had to do all the work!! We were able to find a KOA park to spend the night in and tomorrow we head to Hershey, PA; our last destination prior to getting home. Fortunately that's only about 300 miles, and we get to see Tim, Jaime, Gavin and Peyton, our PA family. Always love to spend time in Hershey. But I want to mention what we did in Nashville, if only so I will remember.....
We made it into Nashville on Saturday, after weathering the chance of tornadoes in Alabama. We were fortunate and are so grateful for that. There are alot of people who weren't so lucky; many of the areas had been hit just last year and are still recovering.
So onto Nashville. We decided to stay at a park which is close to the Grand Old Opry-just about a mile from there. But that's not where we saw it. The show on Saturday night was at the Ryman, in downtown Nashville. We went into town around 3-4 and just started wandering around. There's about two blocks where all the 'action' seems to be. All sorts of bars/saloons/restaurants with live music playing. We wandered for a while and went into one place. Music was soooooo loud, but good. (note from mr traveler, some old gray haired guy in one place leaned over to me and said that I was too old for bar hopping and that he had them turn up the volume so I could hear it) Glad I didn't spend my younger years in a town like that. And it seems that the groups play for several hours and play for tips, and the tip jar is passed around by a loyal friend of the band. Had a drink and an appetizer-can you believe they didn't have WINE!!!! and left. Wandered some more, went into a few more 'establishments'; Russ was still hungry, so stopped for a hamburg, but were able to listen to some decent music. Its great that you can just go in for a while, put some money in the tip jar, and not even bother to eat or have a drink.
It was finally time to go to the Ryman. Some of the folks appearing were ones we saw last year: Little Jimmy Dickens (91); Jeannie Sieley (or something like that); and the Rocky Top players/singers-I don't need to see them again. Just in case you were not aware of this, the Opry is a live radio show and has intermissions and host for each half hour segment. One host was Mel Tillis (anyone remember him); he's the one who stutters and he still does. He's tall-didn't know that he was so tall, but remember that I really liked him on whatever it was that I saw him on. The last group was EXILE, which sounded familiar to me, but certainly didn't sound Country. The last song they sang and the last song of the night was: I'm going to kiss you all over! I looked at Russ and said, 'this isn't country!' but boy did it rock the house. It was great fun, again for us. I'm not sure if I would want this to be my 'destination' vacation, but I'm glad that we are able to stop since we are 'in the neighborhood'.
On Sunday we travelled to Carthage, TN. We spent the afternoon with Killian Adams, his mother Kelly, and grandmother, Miss Dorothy. Killian is the nephew of our good friend Glenn Adams, and was Glenn's best man at his wedding to Jaimie this past summer. They spent a day with us up at camp the week before they were married. We had a great day then, and told Killian that we wanted to stop to see him while travelling this winter. Carthage is less than an hour from where we were staying in Nashville, so we took advantage of that. It was a really good afternoon. Killian is an enjoyable teenager, and he and his grandmother took us on a tour of the area. It was really fun-and then we had dinner back at their home with them. Russ spent some 'guy' time out with Killian and four wheeler and mini bike, while I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with his Mom and Grandmom. Killian, we are looking forward to seeing you this summer and having more fun with you up at camp!!! More tubing...maybe some water skiing and just enjoying your company. RUSS writting now, Maybe Glenn will even let us hang out during the days he has to work. I hope so, as I need your design and build help on a flexable bike. I just read that Mrs. Navigator has noted her hard work. I did offer to let her drive while I played on the phone, GPS, and maps, but she said no thank you in a very pleasent tone. When it started spitting snow, I got a little concerned as we were still in the " HILLY" part of the trip. Roads stayed dry and it wasn't a bad drive. Looking forward to getting home, but sad to have the heat on and see that the outside temp is dropping and now at 35 and expected to get down to 22 before morning. I am now going to try and insert a few pictures. wish me well. The Driver.
McComb, MS at our first stay at a state park (sunset)
Friday, March 2, 2012
We are still here
Hi gang-
Just to let you know, we are alive and well and sitting in Cottondale, AL. After listening to the weather last night, we decided we would just sit here for another day. The weather has been pretty great here today, but there have been some extremely dark clouds passing through every so often. Since we were going to be here for an extra day, we did laundry-just in case. That took up the morning and we both got some reading done. That worked up an appetite, so we went to lunch at Ruby Tuesday's. Thank you to whomever gave us a gift card for that restaurant. The manager came over to look out the window we were sitting near. He told us about having the Ravens team sitting in that area when the last tornado hit. Course, neither Russ nor I were sure what he said (didn't pick up on the Ravens-not a team we are familiar with), but he had the football team in the downstairs cooler to protect them from the storm-or so his story goes. He offered us his cooler if we thought we might need it. Hopefully we won't.
After lunch, we sat outside in the sun for a while, until it rained; then came in for a while, until the sun came out again and then went back outside. Doesn't seem to be much in the area-oh we didn't find a Paul Bryant housing development. Russ recognized the name as the Alabama football coach. I didn't-would have had it said Bear Bryant. Tomorrow we will be heading to Nashville, about 5 hours away. Hope our campground is there-and hope everyone is safe there.
So, we are safe and continue on with our homeward bound travels. Get rid of the snow you are getting in NH/Me. Talk to you all soon. Love-linda
Just to let you know, we are alive and well and sitting in Cottondale, AL. After listening to the weather last night, we decided we would just sit here for another day. The weather has been pretty great here today, but there have been some extremely dark clouds passing through every so often. Since we were going to be here for an extra day, we did laundry-just in case. That took up the morning and we both got some reading done. That worked up an appetite, so we went to lunch at Ruby Tuesday's. Thank you to whomever gave us a gift card for that restaurant. The manager came over to look out the window we were sitting near. He told us about having the Ravens team sitting in that area when the last tornado hit. Course, neither Russ nor I were sure what he said (didn't pick up on the Ravens-not a team we are familiar with), but he had the football team in the downstairs cooler to protect them from the storm-or so his story goes. He offered us his cooler if we thought we might need it. Hopefully we won't.
After lunch, we sat outside in the sun for a while, until it rained; then came in for a while, until the sun came out again and then went back outside. Doesn't seem to be much in the area-oh we didn't find a Paul Bryant housing development. Russ recognized the name as the Alabama football coach. I didn't-would have had it said Bear Bryant. Tomorrow we will be heading to Nashville, about 5 hours away. Hope our campground is there-and hope everyone is safe there.
So, we are safe and continue on with our homeward bound travels. Get rid of the snow you are getting in NH/Me. Talk to you all soon. Love-linda
Hi. Trying something different. I was supposed to blog last nite but we were watching an interesting show on the tsunami in Japan so I didn't
We stayed at a state park in Mississippi. Very quiet park with very little television reception. That's why we watched the Japan story. Well today we are headed to Cottondale, AL and then tomorrow we will be in Nashvile. We have the radio on (which is unusual) to try to get info on the weather. There have been tornadoes in the state so we would like to stay out of their way. Never heard anything on the radio and after chasing stations and finily realizing that I was listening to Church radio and even liking the new christian music (not hyms) I gave up on the forcast(local that is not for the hereafter that I was hearing).
Thursday-
We made it to Cottondale, AL. and got setup in a highwayside RV park. Bad internet reception, but good cable and tv. The weather is predicted to be severe so we are comptemplationg staying here thru Friday.
Friday AM-
the weather was great here yesterday afternoon and all nite. The weather channel and all other weather info is saying severe weather and possible tornados. The worst is predicted for Nashville and north so we have decided to stay here another nite and head to nashville Saturday morning. We called the Nashville rv park and they agreed that it might be wise. It is overcast now but the rain and winds are expected for this afternoon and evening. I am a little concerned and not being used to weather like this doesn't help. We hope it's just being overly cautious but I feel better staying on the lower end of the alert area and not driving into what is predicted to be the "storm center". We actually made coffee and are going to do laundry and check out the area this morning. I NEED to turn off the Weather Channel and do something.
We stayed at a state park in Mississippi. Very quiet park with very little television reception. That's why we watched the Japan story. Well today we are headed to Cottondale, AL and then tomorrow we will be in Nashvile. We have the radio on (which is unusual) to try to get info on the weather. There have been tornadoes in the state so we would like to stay out of their way. Never heard anything on the radio and after chasing stations and finily realizing that I was listening to Church radio and even liking the new christian music (not hyms) I gave up on the forcast(local that is not for the hereafter that I was hearing).
Thursday-
We made it to Cottondale, AL. and got setup in a highwayside RV park. Bad internet reception, but good cable and tv. The weather is predicted to be severe so we are comptemplationg staying here thru Friday.
Friday AM-
the weather was great here yesterday afternoon and all nite. The weather channel and all other weather info is saying severe weather and possible tornados. The worst is predicted for Nashville and north so we have decided to stay here another nite and head to nashville Saturday morning. We called the Nashville rv park and they agreed that it might be wise. It is overcast now but the rain and winds are expected for this afternoon and evening. I am a little concerned and not being used to weather like this doesn't help. We hope it's just being overly cautious but I feel better staying on the lower end of the alert area and not driving into what is predicted to be the "storm center". We actually made coffee and are going to do laundry and check out the area this morning. I NEED to turn off the Weather Channel and do something.
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