And Away We Go! - Thursday, April 27, 2017

The new 5th wheel hitch is being installed Friday. Saturday, Beauty will get her first test pulling Rigamarole down the highway. We are taking off on a two-week trip around the Southeast: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the panhandle of Florida. 

Our plans are to visit five state capitals and do the Volksmarches in each one. Six Flags Atlanta is in our plans as well. Bob wants to visit Vicksburg for some Civil War history. Maybe we can sneak in a garden or two, museums, and some waterfalls. 

In Florida, we will visit Tom and Rosemarie (Bob's brother and sister-in-law). We'd also love to see our friends Iain and Tess who we were close to when we lived in Hawaii. They now live in Destin, Florida.

So far we have not made any reservations for RV parks. For me (someone who makes RV park reservations for travelers coming to Traveler's World RV Resort), it is scary to not have any reservations knowing how many people are traveling right now. I guess this trip our plans are made in Jell-o!

Only one more day until our wheels are rolling again! Can't wait to see what we can see in two weeks. 

Maybe we'll see some of you on the road or in a park along the way. Woo hoo!

Look for us...

Meet Beauty - Mon., Apr. 17, 2017

The time has come to introduce Beauty, our "new" 2012, Ford F350 pickup. Our Beast was a 2000 F350, so we're getting a newer, more technologically advanced model. It even has dual temperature controls and seat heaters/air conditioners.

We bought Beauty last Thursday evening and are very happy.

Left to right: The Escape Pod, Rigamarole, and Beauty

Beauty and Rigamarole

Our insurance has still not paid us for Beast and they are dragging their feet, even calling Bob to ask him how he got home from work the day it was stolen. (I picked him up.) Not only did they call Bob, they called his subordinate and asked him the same question!! What does how Bob got home from work have to do with our truck being stolen??? It's been over three weeks and they were supposed to get back to us in two weeks. Grr!

On a lighter note, about one week after Bob's truck was stolen, our insurance company called to tell us they had been notified by the Converse police that our truck had been recovered. Bob was so excited. He hadn't heard a word about it. He called the Converse police and asked them about his truck being recovered. They looked up the case # and told Bob they only recovered the license plates. Bob got right back on the phone to the insurance company and told them they needed to change their records because only the license plates were recovered! It was a bittersweet laugh that we choked out. The whole truck would have been better.

Anyway, now we need a 5th wheel hitch (which will be put in on 4/28/17) and then we leave on our two-week vacation around the Southeastern United States on 4/29/17. That's cutting it close!

Can't wait to get on the road again!

Travel Bug out.