Dan & Amy

New Furniture & More

Our spring itinerary has been driven by the need to be near Elkhart, IN for the week of May 10th to pickup our new furniture. The furniture was ordered back in January and the lead time dictated a pickup timeframe of the second week in May. Thank you, COVID-19, for incredibly long lead times on getting things. We did have some issues with the power in our house on wheels that took us a while to diagnose and, in the end, we got extremely lucky.

COE vs KOA

It has been over a month since our last blog post. We haven’t done a lot of extra special stuff during this time, just meandering our way north to get new furniture in our house on wheels and eventually to Rochester to see our grandkids. We thought this would be a good time to write about different types of campgrounds and why we prefer one particular type over all the rest.

Winter Home Base

One of the best investments we’ve made since we decided to live in an RV and travel the country was joining the Escapees RV Club. We’ve done several activities with the club and have met many new friends through those activities. When we heard that the Escapees were going to hold special, COVID influenced, events this winter to provide a safe place for full time RVers to settle for the cold months, we were intrigued. Once we learned that our good friends, Rob and Laura, were going to be the hosts at the Florida Winter Home Base, we were sold.

Everglades National Park

Over a year ago, before the pandemic hit, we scheduled an 8-night stay in Everglades National Park. So, we left our friends in Chiefland, FL and made the long 9 hour drive to the park on January 25th to return on the 2nd of February. We made the most of our time riding bikes, kayaking and taking lots of pictures. We even took a day trip to Key West. Here are some of the highlights of our week.

Ending 2020

As we all know, 2020 was quite a year. The pandemic put a monkey wrench in a lot of RVers’ plans and, even though it impacted us some, we were able to travel to most of the places we had planned for the year. This post will briefly cover the final month of the year followed by a summary of all the places we were able to visit with emphasis on National Parks.