I know its getting a bit repetitive now, but another year completed successfully in that she hasn't killed me and buried me out in the woods - yet.
Highlights for me for the past year were California both inland - Yosemite, sequoia - and coastal - whales, pacific coast highway, San Francisco - and meeting up with the Reynolds. And better snow in the ski season, although the visibility and weather were a bit of a let down, it was still a good 6 months with Knees and Clive, Blair and Kevin visiting.
Year 5 is still a bit up in the air. Since we were told in April by US border patrol that we're sort of playing the system and really need to go home or somewhere else before we are allowed in again, we've been considering options and what to do, and as we really want to see the august 2017 eclipse we figure we have to do what they say. A 3 month visit home after skiing looks by far the most likely option - it solves the problem of what to do with all our winter clothing and ski gear, and we could do with a bit more medical attention - checkups, dental - than we can really get on the road. Our Mycenae tenants have confirmed that they are staying on for a second year so we won't be living at home, and Blackpool tenants have been there over a year now and seem happy, so not sure where we might stay but we definitely need a base of some sort, even if its part time.
Haven't made a firm decision yet but thinking of leaving the car in Calgary at the end of the ski season and getting return flights home from there, then picking the car up in mid -august, driving down through glacier national park to see Pris and Bill in Oregon for the eclipse, then on to central america for the next major segment of the world. Maybe we'll take the car down there, maybe we'll sell it and go to Hawaii first before moving south.
But as part of this thinking we have changed our plans for this summer on the basis of we need to try and do the whole of the east coast US and Canadian maritimes this trip. Consequently we've picked up the pace a bit and skipped Glacier national park on the way over as we would drive through it next august, and we are going to bypass Washington DC - we figured it would take us at least a week to do the Smithsonian and all the other sights, and it would be better done as a city break staying in a hotel in the centre rather than trying to slog in from an RV park on the outskirts every day. Better to use the RV to see countryside while we still have it.
Which leads on to the sad decision that we are going to try and sell Badger at the end of the summer. We'll start advertising him around labor day (early september) while we are in the north east and see if we can sell him privately, but if we don't have a taker by mid october we can then either leave him with a dealer to sell, or if we don't see everything we want on this side then there is still the option of putting him in storage for 10 months, picking him up next august/september after the eclipse and having another couple of months to finish off the east coast, then tour back across the south again with him up for sale as we go through all the snowbird communities. But that would mean covering ground we have already seen, and he'll be another year older so more insurance, tax and storage, and a lower sale price.
So, lots of uncertainty - we'll just have to see what happens in september and take it from there. I'm sure it will all work out somehow. Or to put it another way - just wing it as usual....
Highlights for me for the past year were California both inland - Yosemite, sequoia - and coastal - whales, pacific coast highway, San Francisco - and meeting up with the Reynolds. And better snow in the ski season, although the visibility and weather were a bit of a let down, it was still a good 6 months with Knees and Clive, Blair and Kevin visiting.
Year 5 is still a bit up in the air. Since we were told in April by US border patrol that we're sort of playing the system and really need to go home or somewhere else before we are allowed in again, we've been considering options and what to do, and as we really want to see the august 2017 eclipse we figure we have to do what they say. A 3 month visit home after skiing looks by far the most likely option - it solves the problem of what to do with all our winter clothing and ski gear, and we could do with a bit more medical attention - checkups, dental - than we can really get on the road. Our Mycenae tenants have confirmed that they are staying on for a second year so we won't be living at home, and Blackpool tenants have been there over a year now and seem happy, so not sure where we might stay but we definitely need a base of some sort, even if its part time.
Haven't made a firm decision yet but thinking of leaving the car in Calgary at the end of the ski season and getting return flights home from there, then picking the car up in mid -august, driving down through glacier national park to see Pris and Bill in Oregon for the eclipse, then on to central america for the next major segment of the world. Maybe we'll take the car down there, maybe we'll sell it and go to Hawaii first before moving south.
But as part of this thinking we have changed our plans for this summer on the basis of we need to try and do the whole of the east coast US and Canadian maritimes this trip. Consequently we've picked up the pace a bit and skipped Glacier national park on the way over as we would drive through it next august, and we are going to bypass Washington DC - we figured it would take us at least a week to do the Smithsonian and all the other sights, and it would be better done as a city break staying in a hotel in the centre rather than trying to slog in from an RV park on the outskirts every day. Better to use the RV to see countryside while we still have it.
Which leads on to the sad decision that we are going to try and sell Badger at the end of the summer. We'll start advertising him around labor day (early september) while we are in the north east and see if we can sell him privately, but if we don't have a taker by mid october we can then either leave him with a dealer to sell, or if we don't see everything we want on this side then there is still the option of putting him in storage for 10 months, picking him up next august/september after the eclipse and having another couple of months to finish off the east coast, then tour back across the south again with him up for sale as we go through all the snowbird communities. But that would mean covering ground we have already seen, and he'll be another year older so more insurance, tax and storage, and a lower sale price.
So, lots of uncertainty - we'll just have to see what happens in september and take it from there. I'm sure it will all work out somehow. Or to put it another way - just wing it as usual....
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