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Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

FALL FOLIAGE and FRENCH/INDIAN WAR RE-ENACTMENT @ SCHOENBRUNN


We are now trying to return to normal after we did a five day trip south to the Florida panhandle to store the motorhome for early winter. We left Ohio the 7th of October.

Scenery along the way was nice as it was just the beginning of the change in colors of the leaves, especially going through Tennessee. Our days began early as you can see by the sunrise. When in the car Gary was doing the picture taking for a change.  It was a nice trip but very taxing. I suppose a lot of that was because of the stress facing us back in Ohio.







Above is the campground where we stayed before beginning the return trip on Monday. The weather was awesome so we picked up pizza for dinner and spent the afternoon sitting in the shade of the motorhome and read for relaxation. Nice few hours!

This was another sight along the way in Alabama! Enjoy the humor!
Hang on tight!!


Gary's sister is not doing too well so we felt a need to stay close by to take care of her needs and to keep the burden from our son since he is a working man. We felt that while we are here we might as well stay for the holidays before going south again. We hope to leave again right after Christmas. But only time will tell.
Janet is in Essex for the time being for rehab, but we are not sure how she will fare with that. Again, only time will tell.

Thursday evening, the 6th, before leaving for Florida, we had friends, Ron and Donna over to visit. It was a great evening especially as it had been so long since I had seen Donna.
















Donna does a bit of re-enactment herself. She had some pictures of some of her costumes, so I took a couple pictures of them to share.



We had a great evening! Ron and Donna please stop back some time soon since you live so near our new home.

The fall colors were beginning to  get pretty when we traveled last Saturday, the 15th, to Schoenbrunn in Ohio. I have to show you those even though I have more colorful ones from this week that are just gorgeous!




Uhrichsville had some very nice century homes that we just had to snap pictures of:




A little country church that you could see for a few miles:

And then the re-enactment at Schoenbrunn:












Check back in with us from time to time and I will try to keep you up to date on our activities, though it seems that what we do mostly is eat out. Not good!!
On Tuesday Gary met his friend Rick for breakfast and then Wednesday evening I met my friend Louise at Paniera Bread to catch up on all of the news. Gary is working today with scouts to unload the food for the spaghetti dinner to be held Saturday at the Methodist Church. Bill even called from Arizona to recruit us to both work for the dinner! Guess we can't say that we are not busy most of the time now.
I have my scrapbooking albums and pictures spread out over the dining room table to plan for some work days with the girls. It has been so long since I have worked on it that I have to refresh and regroup. And Gary is busy again working on his drawings. He is doing some from the pictures taken at Schoenbrunn.
Take care and enjoy the fall and the awesome weather!!
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