May 19, 2019 - Jumpin' in Juneau

On the ferry around 9:00 PM or so on Tuesday. Had decided not to get a cabin and do what many Alaskans do – sleep in the lounge. We stayed up for a while then were able to lie down on chairs in one of the lounges. We both got a little sleep. We were up by around 4:00 AM. We landed in Juneau about 5:45. We headed right for our campground – Mendenhall Lake FS CG. We came in quietly, there was only the host here in the full hook up section. This has to be the nicest FS CG we have stayed in! We visited the very popular (and very nice)...

May 19, 2019 - My brother's To Do List and Thanks to Everyone Who Helped us Move!!!!

As you may have expected, my brother and I have much the same work ethic - just get it done! Below is his list of what he and Paul accomplished while they were with us from May 1 through May 7 - impressive, isn't it!????!!!! Thanks, Marty! You're the best!!!!!! And Paul for all your help to get the projects done! And thanks to my sister-in-law, Cathy, for all the help unpacking; as well as Paul's cousin, Rose, who unpacked and helped me with a ton of organizing projects; and Karen Allen, who was here to help sort, unpack, tidy and...

May 19, 2019 - Hurricane UT

Hurricane Utah Day 2: Friday, May 17, 2019 We were on the road about 8:30 am heading from Cameron to Hurricane, 198 miles; we anticipated about 5 hrs travel time and we’d lose an hour crossing from Mountain Standard to Mountain Daylight Time at the Utah border. Our route was north on US 89 to Fredonia, AZ where we turned west on AZ 389. We crossed the Utah border at Colorado City, AZ and the road changed to UT 59. There were heavy storm clouds over the mountains west of Hurricane (and I-15) as we approached; recall that there was a large...

May 19, 2019 - Sunday 5/19/19

I haven’t seen any hummingbirds or wrens at my feeders, but I sure have seen them during our evening walks. Ever since I promised to bring my camera along, the heron has disappeared. I’m sure he is still in the area, so I’m being patient. Bill spent 11 hours one day repairing his leaky toilet, then the next day, mine started leaking! The lady that used to own this house used Clorox toilet disks in her tank. Plumbers say they eat away the hoses, and that’s exactly what happened. A few nights ago, Bill discovered that while this community is...

May 19, 2019 - Travis Air Force Base California

After about 24 hours door-to-door, we arrived at Travis AFB billeting. Crashed is the only word that comes to mind when we hit the pillows. Next day we met with old friend and fellow PSM (Personnel Systems Manager) from the 70's, Pat Marino, who as usual is the first person to meet us at Travis. Later on we drove to the storage unit to "just" put three of our four suitcases in so we can travel to D.C. next week carrying only one suitcase, but the unit was not up to Julieann's cleaning standard so she spent a few hours shining stuff. Just...

May 19, 2019 - New Orleans

Rested today plus it rain all day, 𯌪 predicted but a lot less chance than had we been in Jackson Mississippi. There was an earthquake near Oklahoma City a few days ago I am glade we left there’s also. We came to New Orleans to escape as much of their weather as possible. We are going to see The French quarter tomorrow.

May 19, 2019 - Warrenton to Cape Lookout, WA

May 19, 2019 Sun was out for breakfast which we had in the rig and not Arnie’s. Today we are meandering south on the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway which didn’t exist prior to the 1930’s. The Oregon Beach Bill of 1967 allows the public to access every bit of sandy beach and this is known as The People’s Coast. Our first stop was Seaside a little after 10:00. We got a primo parking spot on the main street primarily not much opened until 11:00 other than bars and breakfast spots. The top breakfast spot was Pig ‘n Bacon based on the lines with the...

May 19, 2019 - Busy Sunday

Date: May 19, 2019 Weather: mostly cloudy, a few patches of sun. Temperature: start 30º High 57º Wildlife count: Year List: 297 Birds: SO glad to have a day off. We thoroughly enjoyed worship – Ray talked about Balaam from Numbers, expecting to really preach from 2Peter. However, he never got to 2Peter. There was an altar call, and several people went forward. The sermon also engendered quite a discussion at E’Leaven, where we had lunch with John and Charma – good to talk faith! We got to finally pick up our mail today, shopped for the...

May 19, 2019 - Oaklahoma City to Russellville, Arkansas

This morning we left the campground in Oklahoma City for Russellville, Arkansas a distance of 263 miles to the Ivy’s Cove RV Resort. This a small well maintained RV park with 46 sites, of which 36 are pull throughs with full hook-ups including 50 amp electrical service. The road through Oklahoma City was not very good, very similar to the roads in California. It took 20 minutes to get to the outskirts of the City where the road became belter. The weather was cool and the sky was blue but within an hour huge cumulus clouds could be seen in...

May 19, 2019 - Route 66 Illinois to Missouri

We had breakfast this morning at the motel then left to get on the road at 8:00, the weather was windy and cool with low humidity 67 degrees, had some problems a couple times trying to find the actual Historic Rte 66, we had to get on I-55 a couple times. We saw lots of attractions along the way, however since it was Sunday some stuff was closed we stopped for the night at The Wagon Wheel Hotel, the oldest continually running hotel on Rte 66 built in 1935, and has been renovated of course. We had supper at Hicks of Missouri BBQ which was...

May 18, 2019 - Route 66 in Illinois

We woke up around 6:00 a.m. it was not a restful night sleep for me, the people above us on 2nd floor were doing a lot of moving around about 2:30 it sounded like they were moving furniture (I will just let your imagination go wild), we heard some guy talking outside about the same time, I woke up around 6 got up and left around 7:00 heading up I-65 to downtown Chicago, we passed Wrigley Field and Soldier Field on the way into the city, found the Route 66 sign had to circle the block twice since we missed the sign the first time, but we got...

May 18, 2019 - Mammoth Cave

Took a short tour (1mile) of the 412 mile cave complex. Also visited National Corvette Museum, then a disappointing walk through several antique malls (no maps). Some pics are from Land Between the Lakes, yesterday. Trivia question- how many 1984 corvettes survive today? Answer in a future entry.