absolutely Ron.
Museums, zoos, manufacturing, geologic wonders of the world, classic small town chrome diners, what do you look at next?
I normally avoid crowds and seek quiet places. I'll see Yellowstone when it blows up anyway...
And the idea of driving thru/past LA and spending time in California gives me the willies, but that's where my sister moved to.
At least she has a view of the Pacific and a beach she can walk to. That's worth the drive...
I have to keep in mind I intend to keep this motorhome for three or four years, unlikely I'll be able to drive it after then, so I plan more trips.
I'm not looking to do everything this trip. Hopefully it will show me places I want to go back to again.
And since I'm likely to sell my farm next year and downsize, the next spot will have to have room for the rv and a couple of sheds.
Where that is I don't know so it makes this trip even more interesting for me.
First when I go to Florida this winter to see two friends who have retired there, I'm going to add extra time and go up the Panhandle of Florida. Gives me an excuse to take something other than rt 95 back. In the old days, at least you got to read the Burmashave signs. I think I remember something like that when I was little, having
to wait for the next part. Today, I am weary of seeing South Of The Border billboards. There's something about that road that seems hard to me. Rougher ride, dangerous, huge traffic jams and high tolls. Marvelous. So I'll make sure I go back a different way. Will only add a couple of days and will get me through that area of the South I intend to miss on my later big trip.
where is a good place in this country to buy quality fireworks? All those stands along the road, you don't know how old the stuff is or whether
you are getting ripped off by the local gypsies. Might be some ICC issues on that...? I don't mean big mortar rounds, just fresh medium size stuff.
I was MC of the July 4th fireworks show on our farm for many years growing up. Lot of fun if you are very, very careful. Says a retired insurance underwriter and
ex fireman. It was also my Mother's birthday and we always had a nice family day. But then the fireworks got "safe" and for a while the bigger stuff disappeared, at least in PA, maybe not further South, and I heard mutterings of
road flare one year from the unhappy crowd. It was embarrassing.
That's when I started taping several together for a bigger effect.
The little rockets, the one that were plastic and looked like little rockets with fins at the bottom it stood up on? Ever light one of those off? We shot them all off just fine until one fell over and shot right at my sister from a good ways away. My Father flattened her on the concrete pool deck and not sure it hit him, maybe...
All I knew is that fireworks were then suspended for a number of years. My sister got pretty scuffed up on the rough concrete and it was clearly not a good thing.
One year we lit the field on fire and half a dozen guys in bathing suits and towels were swatting the fire out, another lesson learned. No fireworks during droughts...
And then I got older, slightly wiser, much safer and survived to this day.
Am reading a number of travel books on the next leg of the journey. I think I could spend a month in Texas and two months in Utah there is so much to see.
But I can't...
I'm banking on the Gulf being cleaned up by then. But I'll take lots of pictures along the way, will see if I can find reminders of storm damage.
