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Heading South In January

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:06 pm
by Sir Henry
I didn’t sell my Class A motor home this summer so I’m taking it off the market. I was talking to my 97 year old neighbor and we joked about running away in it this winter.

Today I took her for a drive and she said she wanted to go with me for real. Her daughter or a friend will be going with us and we have planning to be gone all of January.

She has relatives in Texas, Georgia and Florida. Looks like I might be heading south for the coldest month.

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:03 pm
by North Country Gal
Not a bad plan. For me it's not so much that our winters are hard as much as it is that our winters are so darn long. Be nice to take a break and get away for awhile.

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:50 pm
by Cofisher
Where you planning on heading Gene?

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:14 pm
by JEBar
nice .... we did that for over 10 years and I treasure the memories .... looking forward to following your trip

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 7:37 am
by Sir Henry
Cofisher wrote:
Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:50 pm
Where you planning on heading Gene?
At this time all I know is we are heading south. On Sunday her daughter will come here from Madison and we are going to map out the route.

She is really fun to be with. At 97 she gets around like someone that is 80 and she has a wonderful and positive point of view. And she is not above playing a trick on you.

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:16 am
by Hatchdog
Sounds like both a great plan and a great time. Nice to see somebody that age have the spunk you describe.

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:58 am
by Sir Henry
Our schedule doesn’t match her daughters so we are planning two separate trips. December 10-17 we will drive my Subaru down to the Florida keys and stay at her condo. Then in January we will take our time driving down to Texas in my motor home. About a week down, two weeks in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona then a week coming back.

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:30 am
by Sir Henry
Our trip to Marco Island is off because we don’t know if the condo is even standing. It was dead center of the hurricane path.

Texas is still going to happen. The motor home didn’t sell and I pick it up on Tuesday. My 97 year old traveling companion is giddy like a school girl about the trip and keeps discovering new things and places she wants to do and see.

Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:32 pm
by Sir Henry
Turns out Marco Island was 100 miles away and apparently received very little damage. Florida is back on for December.

My motor home didn’t sell so I brought it home. I live on the other side of Timms Hill.
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Pictures from the drive home.
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I hate parking it in my driveway but have no other place to put it.
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Re: Heading South In January

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:39 pm
by Shakey Jake
I miss the fall foliage colors. We don't get leaves that turn here in the South. The live oaks stay green all year round and renew their leaves in the spring buy pushing off the old ones. The deciduous trees just drop them without much color.
Jake