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Category: trip stories
Day trip to Baltimore
Gettysburg is undoubtedly a primary destination, but it is also well situated to take day trips elsewhere if you like. Hershey Pennsylvania with its chocolate factory is just a short distance away, as is Baltimore Maryland. Mireille and I were sitting at the bar in Gettysburg Eddie’s one Friday afternoon, discussing these two alternatives when…
Navigation “lessons” and Gettysburg
While we were in New York visiting Sonia, Doug, and Liam, our youngest son Gregory mentioned that for my birthday he would like to get me a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield. I had wanted to go there forever, and in truth was planning to go after New York anyway, so this all worked out…
Let’s just say we have lots to tell you about after today’s adventure…
Today was a day of days. A 5-hour trip turned into about ten once everything was said and done. The stoic side of me says that this day was just what was meant to be and I should just accept what is. The optimist side of me says that it is days like today that…
Our last night in Montmagny
One of the things Mireille and I find it hard to get used to as we continue our travels-with-charlie is how time does seem to fly! I do not know why it is, but I think it has to do with the fact that we do not spend enough time anywhere to get into the…
A bad road, a lovely park, a surreal meeting
After a week in Sioux Falls and becoming official South Dakotans, our next week would see us staying at the Hidden Ridge RV Resort near Hopkins, Michigan. It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. After making our way from South Dakota to the Hidden Ridge RV Resort, I think…
Our first Christmas in July
Success! That is what I think anyway. Yesterday was warmer than most days here, with the sun shining brightly all day long. It is hard to put up lights and aim a laser Christmas light display in full sun, but I got that done while Mireille baked a pudding chômeur inside. When that was done baking,…
One of our favorite things
Last night there was a beautiful sunset. The photo above doesn’t do it justice, but it gives some idea of what we were enjoying. It was just after taking this photo that one of our favorite things happened. Some new neighbors had pulled into the RV park where we are staying, and they were out…
Whew! 2 (Colorado to South Dakota) and the saga of a right versus a left
So, with the ramps securely in place on the tow dolly and having averted treating every driver going north on I-76 to a pyrotechnic shower of sparks, we left Pikes Peak RV Park behind Saturday morning May 5 on our way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We needed gas, and there was a Costco on…
Whew! (Arizona to Colorado)
It has been a while since I last posted here. That is not because I haven’t had anything to say, but more because we have been busy. When last I wrote, we were crossing the two-month mark and were still in Mesa Arizona at the Mesa Regal RV Resort. We were there for a…