2018 Vermont
September, 2018 – we planned a trip up to Vermont to see my mother and other relatives who’ve now moved there from Florida permanently. (Yeah. They lived in Florida, and decided to retire to Vermont. Go figger…) We hoped to…
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Travelogue
Day 5 – The Mansion on the Hill
Monday morning, we called the Enterprise place just up the road, and as advertised, they came out to pick me up. I rode back to the office with them, and after filling out all the paperwork, we had a nice…
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Day 14 – Missouri to West Virginia
Terrain & Route Map, Columbia MO to Beckley, WV Our longest day, by far. The middle of Missouri was hot, even at 6 am when we roused up. Today, we’d be following I-70 across the rest of Misssouri to St…
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Day 15 – Home, Safe and Sound
Final Day – Friday, July 6, 2012. Beckley WV to Salem We woke to a cool, foggy morning in the hills of West Virginia. We hit the road early, around 6:30 or so. We were crossing over the spine of…
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Day 13 – Unscenic Kansas
Terrain & Route Map, Goodland, Kansas to Columbia, Missouri We got up on the morning of Independence Day in the KOA at Goodland, which we’d found in the dark last night. It was pleasantly warm, still a bit breezy, and…
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Day 12 – Scenic Colorado
Terrain & Route Map, Tuesday July 3rd – Rifle, CO to Goodland, KS Part 1 – Glenwood Canyon For the first time in over a week, we awoke to cool air. And by cool, I mean the low 70s. Today…
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Day 4 – KOA is A-OK!
Sunday, Day 4, we pretty much just hung around the KOA – since we weren’t in our ‘reserved’ spot, as soon as the CG was ready for us we moved from our temporary overnight spot, to the nicer lakeside spot…
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Day 3 – About Face!
Stuck in Neutral Saturday morning was nice and sunny and warm by the time the sun got up above the hills. so we had some breakfast and tried the key again, and nothing. I’m not sure what I expected, but…
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Day 2 – Who’s at Hoosick?
Today was scheduled as a leisurely run up the Hudson River’s east bank, through Poughkeepsie, and then on to Albany, where we’d make a right and head into Vermont. First, though, we spend a leisurely hour or so wandering around…
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Day 11 – Touring Arches NP
Terrain & Route Map, Moab to Rile, Colorado Today would be a mixed day – we spend the morning and early afternoon exploring Arches National Park, just outside of town. This park, like yesterday’s Canyonlands, has interesting, somewhat unique visual…
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