This is a photo of Janice Waugh. I have been an avid reader of Janice's blog SoloTraverler for as long as I have been considering my RTW trip. I like her blog, especially since we have matching hair color and she seems to be a down-to-earth person when talking about long-term travel. Janice is a …
Here we go….again!
Hello Everyone - Bet you thought I had given up writing this blog! Nope - just took a break while getting settled into my new Chicago home. Over Thanksgiving (see family above) my youngest mentioned that my Facebook posts were getting much too long and I should go back to blogging instead. I agreed with …
Trucker Babe Signing On!
WheW - moving is just no fun. First I was told I needed a 16' truck, but then Penske was nice enough to up me to a 22' for no extra charge. I thought great, bigger is always better. But my local store only had 26' trucks, which they were going to let me have …
A New Adventure Begins…..
I have lived in my little-house-by-the-sea in Wilmington, NC on-and-off for the past 5 1/2 years. I say on-and-off as during that time I was away serving in the Peace Corps and then traveling cross-country in my RV or in my Jeep. I decided it was time to move during my 4-month road-trip last Fall …
52 Days – 7999.9 Miles
The odometer, which read -0- when I pulled out of my drive early morning on August 1st read 7999.9 when I parked in my garage and turned off the engine of the Jeep 52 days later, at 2:30 p.m. on September 21st, to be precise. I had just completed an ALMOST 8,000 round-trip drive from …
Rain, Traffic Jams and more Rain!
Driving from St. Louis to Charlottesville, VA was not nice. I got of out St. Louis with no problems and even remarked to myself what a nice, fairly empty interstate I-64 was.Now, I had seen signs in St. Louis saying that the I-64 bridge from IN to KY was closed. I even tried to find …
St. Louis – Balloon Glow and so much more…
One of my best friends, Ellen, lives in St. Louis. She had asked me before I left home if it would be possible for me to be back in this area by the 16th of September. The Missouri Humane Society, with which she is very involved, uses the Balloon Glow evening portion of the Great …
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INTERSTATES – YUCK!
The only good thing about these super-highways that criss-cross our country is that they get you where you are going fast! On the other hand, they are so mindlessly BORING. The exits all have the same things - a gas station and usually a McD's where you can grab a bite and hop right back …
The Open Road….
My travels along Hwy 50 continued for most of Tuesday. I left Ely early in the morning and headed out once again through wide open country but soon I was driving, up, up and up into another mountain pass. I met a biker at a gas stop who said that if you drive the entire …
Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Ely, NV
Early morning on the 10th I drove into the south entrance of Yosemite and made the 4-hour drive up and over Tioga Pass, which brought me out at Lee Vinning and the Whoa Nelly Deli. But let me back up a bit....After a farewell breakfast with new best friends Joyce and Lynne, I headed into …
My Home on the Roam 