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 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 7 – A Capital Idea, old man!
Thursday, Melissa decided there wasn’t much at the convention that we’d driven 2200 miles to attend that really interested her, so she and I toured SLC, much like I’d done the day before. Hal took the RV to someplace for…
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Day 1 – Salem to Croton-on-Hudson
Part 1 – NJ to PA and then NJ again Our first day out. We hit the usual mid-day traffic up Interstate 295 in New Jersey, taking it up to the Commodore Barry Bridge spanning the Delaware River between…
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2014 Vacation-New York State & Niagara Falls
In the summer of 2014, we planned a short trip to visit my mother, sister and other family in Vermont, and then turn westwards across New York State. Melissa had a three-day business conference just outside of Rochester, and we…
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Day 6 – Adrift in the Sea of Mormon
The day before, after we’d arrived at the KOA, it was decided that we’d rent a car for a couple of days to make it easier to get around. After we got the RV settled in and all, I contacted…
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Day 3 – Iowa to Wyoming 24 June 2012
Route Map, Day 3, Mid – Iowa to Laramie, Wyoming Wagon Ruts, Bad Gas, and a gradual climb We woke up Sunday morning after a somewhat fitful rest. Who’d have thought that Atlantic, Iowa had a Saturday night social scene…
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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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