Launch Date 1/1/2015
Since achieving our objective of seeing the lower 48 states including most of the major national parks, Linda and I have settled into two major RV trips a year. The first is a turnaround trip to bring the RV into the south in the fall. The end result of this trip is to leave the RV in a storage lot in a southern state. We spend about a month on this trip in order to tour the middle states on the way that are not very tourable due to weather in the winter when we take our second major RV trip. We need to get the RV to the south because it is not smart to start our winter trip from New Hampshire due to the possibility of ice or snow in late December. After leaving the RV in a storage lot we drive back to New Hampshire in the car we tow behind the RV.
We call our RV the Aussie Rocket. We bought it from an Australian couple that named it the Aussie Rocket. To follow the Aussie theme we call the car we tow behind the RV (toad in RV speak), Little Roo.
This website will cronicle our winter trip in 2015. We will spend most of our winter trip in Florida. We stored the RV in Brunswick Georgia at the end of the turnaround trip. This year we will spend a fair amount of our trip with the Bournes. Richard and Lennie Bourne own a class A diesel motorhome and winter in the south as we do. Rick is my original roommate in college and we have been friends since 1964 (yes I am older than dirt). Rick and Lennie retired two years before I did and started RVing then. Linda and I went on our ill fated "Trailer Trip from Hell” and met up with Rick and Lennie on Skyline drive for a one week piece of their first cross country trip. We have been RVing off and on together ever since. This year we will be booked into the same RV parks about 50% of the time so it will be nice to be RVing with friends.
The style of this years trip will be different for us. Normally we make very few reservations at RV parks and just work off a general plan of where we will go and how long we will stay. Since this years trip is in lower Florida where the RV parks are noticably more expensive and the more desirable ones tend to get booked, we have reservations for the grand majority of our trip. The first destination will be the Florida Keys. We have been to the keys multiple times in previous years and it is consistantly warm and dry in January and February. We will be in two RV Parks in the keys and then jump off the keys to Palm Beach County (north of Miami) for a month, returning to be with the Bournes on Key Largo.
In the beginning of March we will move over to the Gulf side of Florida to Fort Myers (2 weeks). After Ft Myers we will travel up the west coast of Florida visiting friends and relatives (my sister lives in New Port Richey). After Florida we will wander around the Gulf to Gulf Shores State Park in Gulf Shores Alabama. This is our favorite RV park in the US. We will stay for a week or two and then wander back north to home in New Hampshire.
The second page of this website contains the Overview map of our trip. I will initially create the map with all the RV parks where we have reservations. As we fill out the non-reserved portions of the trip I will modify the map. Note Google maps calculates the path taken between stops. It is not necessarily the path we drive on but it’s not far off.
The next pages in this website will be added as we go along to cronicle the highlights of the trip. Feel free to bookmark the URL to this webpage and come back to it whenever you want to see the current status of our trip. I try to update the website as frequently as possible but a lot of factors could delay it’s being published in a timely fashion. (mostly availability of WIFI in the Parks)
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