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Durango, Colorado & Family Visit

Pat’s brother Robert has a summer home in the mountains near Durango, Colorado (6,500 feet and 18,000 pop) and has been asking for us to come visit. It has always been high on our agenda, but we never had good timing until this summer while RVing through Colorado. So, we decided to leave the 5th wheel coach in Colorado Springs and drive the 303 miles in our new little Honda CRV instead of crossing the mountains with the rig. We had a wonderful week full of family time, activities and mountain vistas!

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Taos/Angel Fire, New Mexico – More Mountain Roads!

We are on the move again to Angel Fire, a northern New Mexico resort area after a very nice nine day stay in Santa Fe. Our RV resort is located in Angel Fire, New Mexico (pop 1,000 at 8,400 elevation!) that is about 30 minutes east of Taos, New Mexico. The tricky part is that we have a direct route via a narrow and twisty two lane road that is a 100 mile relocation. To make it even trickier is that snow and a frozen mix was in the weather forecast. Uh oh…

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Fredericksburg – Texas Hill Country and a Visit From Family!

We really enjoyed our short nine day stay in this lovely small German town! Fredericksburg definitely made the “return to” list. Besides having a great and walkable downtown area (that was only 3-4 blocks from the RV park), the area has a multitude of wineries and great restaurants, the LBJ Texas White House and ranch nearby, and the surrounding hills are rich with abundant wildflowers!

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Flight To Indy To See The Moms

Gotta see the moms! We wanted to work in a weeklong trip back to Indiana to see our moms before taking off on our spring/summer/fall plans. Finally decided to extend our stay here at Llano Grande Resort by a couple of weeks. This is a very safe and secure park to leave our rolling home for a week. So, we booked our flights and a rental car and were off to the Great Up North on Tuesday March 19th!

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A Dallas Texas Thanksgiving

Ft Worth Stock Yards

We just finished a wonderful Thanksgiving week with family in the Dallas Texas area.  We finally make it to Texas after a long driving year from Florida all the way up to Maine and then back to the southwest.  Texas will be our winter home for the next four months.  Four locations for about a week each and then down near the Mexico border for three months at one place.  That will be our longest stay in one place since going full-time RVing! Continue reading “A Dallas Texas Thanksgiving”

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Quick Trip To See The Moms

sunset

The featured image above was the sunset in Hendricks County Indiana that greeted us!

We have now been at our old hometown in Virginia for three weeks.  The long list of action items is coming along quite well.  It has been a busy and somewhat stressful three weeks as we are rushing to meet some deadlines.  One of the things that we wanted to do while in Virginia is a quick 500 mile trip to see our moms.  So, we rented a car, packed a lunch and took off on Tuesday last week! Continue reading “Quick Trip To See The Moms”

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Fort Chiswell, Week #2

DVPC

The featured image was taken at our DVPC church at sunset.  We are staying at the Fort Chiswell RV Park, near our former home town of Christiansburg, VA for a month before getting back on the road.  There are dentist appointments, RV work, a complete sort through all of our stuff, a new car to buy, family and friends to see, and a wedding to attend.  We have accomplished much at about the halfway point, but still more to do! Continue reading “Fort Chiswell, Week #2”

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Southwest Virginia; Family, Friends, Many Appointments, and a Brake Failure! Yikes!

We had reserved a great campsite at Claytor Lake State Park that is near to our old home town of Christiansburg, Virginia.  We booked this site for the maximum time of two weeks to allow us time to complete all of our annual health checkups plus some vehicle maintenance.

This leg of our travels was about 400 miles over two days of driving.  This is a bit longer than we really like to drive, but needed to get to our Virginia location for some appointments.

We also had an unexpected brake failure with the 5th wheel coach while traveling in the steep mountains from the Cincinnati area to a one night stopover in Huntington, West Virginia!  Yikes!!! Continue reading “Southwest Virginia; Family, Friends, Many Appointments, and a Brake Failure! Yikes!”