rollin', rollin', rollin'..............

     Rollin down Interstate 81 in PA- day two of our beeline to Massachusetts. I have a huge smile on my face in anticipation of spending time with my family and friends.   The timing appears to be good. We should be in time to help our son move into his new apartment.
  The weather over the last 2 days has been an improvement over earlier in the week.  I am sure most people saw or heard about the massive storm that came through the midwest on Tuesday.  Paul and I were watching the Weather Channel (the old peoples' MTV, according to some) that morning and saw that the storm was headed toward Muncie Indiana, where our daughter lives, so we called to make sure she was aware of it.  Within 30 minutes Muncie was under a Tornado Warning, and the Ball State University campus was in lock-down. 
    We continued to watch the TV until we saw that all of the counties to the west of us were gradually transitioning  from Watch to Warning. At that point we started packing up our"go" bag, the cat, etc., and as soon as the warning was called for our county, we headed for the clubhouse and spent the next two hours doing laundry.  That's what you call killing two birds with one stone!  We made it through fine, but the winds didn't diminish much for two days.  One night we got up in the middle of the night to pull the slides in, the trailer was shaking so much.
    We were a little concerned leaving on Thursday since it was still gusting, but once we were on the road it was a tail wind, so no problem for us and we didn't have to stop.  We put in 370 miles before calling it a day. 
Today we have gone 250 miles with another 180 to go before we get to MA. We may stop for the night if we can find a place to stop, but they are few and far between in New England. 
As for my foot- its doing fine and I have to go see the doctor one more time, in late November.

Change of Plans

I always say that we make our travel plans in jello, with plenty of wiggle room- we reserve the right to change our mind about our plans and our direction- its one of the perks of being on the road full time.
After looking at maps and taking all factors into account, including the fact that although I can walk, I am not really up for spending a day sightseeing, and the fact that I miss my family, especially my son, we are blowing off the Virginias and heading to Massachusetts. Assuming the weather forecast doesn't contain the "S" word in it before we leave here, that is.
Everything, of course, depends on what the doctor has to say on Wednesday, but unless something new crops up, he pretty much said I could leave for a couple of weeks on Thursday.

Happy Halloween, again



There are no real people in this picture



 A lot of RV parks have Halloween every weekend in October, and this one is no exception.  Apparently Paul is getting jealous of all the decorations.  I could actually see him trying to stop himself from picking up decorations in the store. Especially the 6 foot inflatable spider that moves it's head.  Three times he went to look at that thing.  Eventually he said he would wait until after Halloween and get it on sale.  We do have about 10 bins of Halloween decorations in storage, but who knew we would want them so badly while on the road?  He did buy some LED lights, as a compromise with himself.

This RV Park has a lot going for it, especially for families.  There seem to be a lot of activites for all


an absolutely adorable "Dorothy"

 ages.  We haven't done all that much, but we did walk the entire park to check out the decorations. It sure is a good thing they close the roads for the trick or treating, since there were hundreds of kids, and their parents, walking the streets on Saturday night.
  We got here on Thursday and will hopefully leave by next Thursday. I haven't been very active, but today I wanted to push it a little, so we went to Sterling State Park, which is on Lake Erie, and walked for about an hour. Afterwards we came back, put our feet up, and watched the Patriots beat the Chargers. All in all, a good day.

hoards of trick or treaters

Lake Erie