Shirley dreamed the campground was like a neighborhood, not an RV campground.

After hearing that I like fruit teas he would not let up lecturing me on what real tea is. Our minds mildly toasted from touring for four days straight, we walked out with over $100 worth of tea, a couple of tea pots, and no idea whether or not I...

The fact that my wife was a tea drinker was one of the reasons I asked her out for a lifetime of dates, this trip is certainly our longest one.

I suggest 2 nights, 2 nights to travel and then 4-5 or 6 nights at a destination

Only once she gets there we realize that there are no walking trails for about a mile.

"Is everyone in position?" Shirley responds "yup" "Engaging impulse engines" I respond and we ease out of another campground

We have left California and are now safely(?) across the border in Oregon.

Our youngest son Kevin, transferred from a job in Portland, OR to Raleigh, NC met us at the campground and spent the night.

She also got into my box of wheat thins and Brad's garlic pistachios

Stopped in Sonoma for lunch.  It was great.  Met an elf who makes delicious wine candy

Brad was standing, looking at his phone and this tall guy came jumping around, real close to Brad and was pushing himself off the wall.

Walked the town, then drove to the 3rd oldest lighthouse in America.

I stepped in the water. So pristine warm compared to the Atlantic.

Visited a saloon. Gotta have whiskey!

They also have pics and autographed pics from early Hollywood stars as many cowboy movies were filmed in this area

I am a nocturnal person who worked 3-11 pm all my life and despises getting up early.

Death Valley was similar to Petrified Forest in so much as it was vast and ever changing.

For two weeks our landscape has been the desert.  It was nothing like what I thought it would be.

The place was so awesome, several other RV's also pulled in.

We didn't have the time or inclination to go to Zion Canyon

Named after the Kodak photo film. Paul Simon's song exalts the film's capabilities, the park itself is truly breathtaking and worthy of Simon's lyrics

Apparently AZ has several different time zones.

This morning I went to RP's Stage Stop  international Cafe for breakfast alone. Brad found nothing he wanted on the menu so he had a nice buffet breakfast at a Mexican Restaurant.

They never adjusted to mutual retirement, we waited over a year of mutual retirement before engaging in such a long RV trip.

5 Minute walk to the shuttle bus that takes you to the park

Was used to train astronauts as it was closest to moon landscape

Two small white dogs came running out, barking and running after us.

One couple said the Bryce Canyon was better to see than the Grand Canyon, much more color.

Large and sooo peaceful we decided to stay another night.

I told her, I don't know where I am. I'm coming from MA

Brad had a biscuit on top of home fries covered with sausage gravy.

 It was Beautiful. Cool, as it was on large mountain side.  Views were amazing.

We went late as the repairman came to fix our leaking sink. It seemed that he fixed the problem, but.. more water in evening.

Huge, commercial city.  Culture shock after driving through the beauty of nature.  Clean, but kinda trashy RV park

Now we are awaiting a RV handyman coming to fix a leak in our bathroom

 Cannot describe the beauty.  I wrote this poem.

Come here to recapture that beauty. Mountains as you look up, mountains as you look down.  Spaciousness beyond description.

Las Vegas, New Mexico is a fun little town, nice to walk around.  Little shops

These 2 guys help Brad jury-rig the plug. We are still looking for the right one

Our journey and adventure continues, some days we go and seek magic, some days we sit back and let the magic seek us.

Spent time looking around the historical Plaza Hotel and had a drink at the bar.

Two hours later when rock pavement had cooled down I walked her. Not far, but I got to see the lake and a rabbit.

This time when we had a snack during the day we put on the generator to run the air conditioner while we ate in the diner.

The temperature was around 100 F and a Real Feel of 120

The first night we were there we went to see the bats that live under the South Columbia Avenue Bridge. As many as 70,000 or even more come out at dusk, take off over the city and eat all of Austin's bugs!

Nice lunch at pie a shop off the highway. And, of course we had to have pie for dessert. Their specialty is meringue pies, Brad got lemon and I got coconut custard

For lunch we found a local joint where you order and find a seat for yourself. Great food

We then hopped back on and got off for a final time in the French Quarter, which we both enjoyed. Appetizers of boiled crayfish, while listening to music.

Went to WWII museum today. A cannot miss if you are anywhere near New Orleans

Now, perhaps, the obvious question has become apparent. What happens to the water after it is used

It rained, and when I say rain, I mean a downpour most of day

When she said it, it clicked in my head she was right. It never got itchy. The rash lasted a few days

Tannehill Ironworks was amazing. Muddy rivers everywhere (from clay) and flooding along the shorelines.

I went in and the first words the young guy at the counter said was, how do you drive that thing?

The walk in the woods was uneventful. No creeks here, although we actually walked up a dry one on the trail

Upon arriving in the camp I was claustrophobic as it was so close and crowded.  Still close in the RV section, but not as crowded.

31 years later, here we are, retired and travelling in a class C camper

Would have been a great place to stay longer.

I was staring down a steep drop and when I looked out - gorgeous!

Both Shirley and I will blog, Mitzvah is still a little pissed off that she has to live in a house that moves so probably won't write anything.

A couple of days here at Ironwood just what we needed, some R&R after our bittersweet leaving.

We learned the hard way to bubble wrap all glass. Had a barbecue bottle explode on the carpeting