It is crunch time! Our first major trip cross country in the Beanpod has been the focus of several months of planning and prepping. Now we are down to it. Checklists expand and items get checked off only to see the lists expand again. Life in an amazingly cool and rainy New England spring has exploded into a spate of early summer weather, but the cool weather has delayed the strawberry season and we will be gone before the berries are ripe and only a few steps away from a picking basket, a biscuit and a dollop of whipped cream. Not to be this summer but we are confident to find some on the road. No more writing this AM, it is time to get our collective rears in gears....
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Chapter Three - Podding ON!
Ok, so you are going to have to fast forward a bit. Our last post was in March of 2016. We intended to do more blogging and posting bit life is just life. Quick summary:
- Bought an RV, a 2016 Forest River R-Pod 178 which we have named - The Beanpod
- We travelled th KY for Tom and Suzanne's Wedding in May 2016, checking out C&O Canal Trail, GAP Trail and Ohiopyle.
- Took the Pod to Bike Virginia and dis some excellent riding in the Shenandoah Valley.
- Celebrated the arrival of Evelyn Lois Stolz on July 25, 2016
- Bean Pod had ro go back to the factory to repair a leakiy roof, curbbing RV activities for the summer.
- We visited Acadia National Park, tent camping. Enjoyed the park, the carriage roads with our bikes and kayaking on Echo Lake.
- In spring of 2017 we did a long Pod trip to Gettysburg National Battle Field, drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive, to a Pod Rally on Jekyll Island, GA. We returned by stopping at Charolette NC to visit Marsha's Uncle Jacka nd Aunt Betty. We continued to Damascus, VA aka "Trail Town" where the AT crosses. We rode the Virginia Creeper Trail.
-Celebrated the departure or Lyn Argersinger, Marsha's mom at 92, in May.
I should add that there have been a bunch of shorter Pod trips to RI and in CT, and a a few trips to visit with Janice and Dave Shannon at Wolfeboro.
And now, we are on the verge of another longer summer trip. It is our 40th anniversary coming in September and in July we will take a 7 day cruise to Alaska from Seattle. To get there we will drive the Beanpod through the Badlands, stop in Wallowa County to see Rick, Doug and Jodi will come for the July 4th holiday, and we will return to Spokane with them. We leave the Beanpod there and swing through Vancouver with Doug and Jodi who will be on the same cruise but on a different ship.
So, now 10 days out, we pick up the typing again to post our way across the USA!
- Bought an RV, a 2016 Forest River R-Pod 178 which we have named - The Beanpod
- We travelled th KY for Tom and Suzanne's Wedding in May 2016, checking out C&O Canal Trail, GAP Trail and Ohiopyle.
- Took the Pod to Bike Virginia and dis some excellent riding in the Shenandoah Valley.
- Celebrated the arrival of Evelyn Lois Stolz on July 25, 2016
- Bean Pod had ro go back to the factory to repair a leakiy roof, curbbing RV activities for the summer.
- We visited Acadia National Park, tent camping. Enjoyed the park, the carriage roads with our bikes and kayaking on Echo Lake.
- In spring of 2017 we did a long Pod trip to Gettysburg National Battle Field, drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive, to a Pod Rally on Jekyll Island, GA. We returned by stopping at Charolette NC to visit Marsha's Uncle Jacka nd Aunt Betty. We continued to Damascus, VA aka "Trail Town" where the AT crosses. We rode the Virginia Creeper Trail.
-Celebrated the departure or Lyn Argersinger, Marsha's mom at 92, in May.
I should add that there have been a bunch of shorter Pod trips to RI and in CT, and a a few trips to visit with Janice and Dave Shannon at Wolfeboro.
And now, we are on the verge of another longer summer trip. It is our 40th anniversary coming in September and in July we will take a 7 day cruise to Alaska from Seattle. To get there we will drive the Beanpod through the Badlands, stop in Wallowa County to see Rick, Doug and Jodi will come for the July 4th holiday, and we will return to Spokane with them. We leave the Beanpod there and swing through Vancouver with Doug and Jodi who will be on the same cruise but on a different ship.
So, now 10 days out, we pick up the typing again to post our way across the USA!
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