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2024 – Cumberland, MD

Since we are semi-seriously looking to move out of New Jersey within the decade, western Maryland is one of the areas we’ve decided to look into. Prices are relatively inexpensive. We took a trip out to Cumberland one day in…
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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 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 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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Day 2 – Ohio to Iowa 23 June 2012

Day 2 – Across the heartland of America Saturday morning dawned clear and bright.  The noise and cacophony that greeted our arrival the night before was muted, as much by distance as anything else. I wandered into the Pilot Store…
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Day 1 – Salem, NJ to London, Ohio – 22 June 2012

Friday Morning Take-off We spent about 45 minutes packing the RV with foodstuff and other perishables that we didn’t load up the night before, and carried out the last of the clothes and other miscellaneous junk. After about ten minutes,…
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Vacation 2012 – West to Utah and the Promised Land

Westward Ha! – Innocents on the Road to Perdition In the summer of 2012, we embarked on a near-cross country journey in a 24 year old Fleetwood Bounder motor home. I, my wife Melissa, and her older brother Howell (‘Hal’)…
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