IT'S BEEN OVER A YEAR SINCE OUR LAST POST. PART 1

                              March 26th to July 17th, 2017

On the 03-26 we moved to Cave Creek Regional Campground. Ron and Jane, who now live in Wilson, WY had come down to Scottsdale to visit. Oops, I forgot to mention Charley. It had been two years since we last saw them.

Gil and Nancy arrived at the campground in the early afternoon of March 29. It was great to see them again as it had also been a couple years since we were last together. Late afternoon we all went to Ron and Jane’s for dinner and an evening of visiting.

On March 30th we invited a group of friends, Karl, Deb, Dan, Paula, Gil, Nancy, Ron and Jane over for an afternoon happy hour, lots of fun, even if the wind was blowing wildly. For some reason we did not take one picture. 

That next evening we went to supper with a group of friends to celebrate Nancy’s Birthday.

Nancy and Gil.

Sandy, Dan, Paula, Nancy, Gil, Jane and Ron.

We headed for home on Saturday April 1st.  We were both ready, Even though we got to visit with friends, it was a wet and cool winter. The trip to get home took 3 days.


A couple of reasons we head back home in April is for taxes and Crappie fishing. Terry and I got out together 5-6 times. There were years when Terry, I and another friend, George (who is fishing in the great sky above) would spend over 100 days fishing together. There was a sports/bait shop that used to call us the "Three Musketeers."

In May we went out to Aberdeen for Sandy's mom's birthday and Mothers day. It was nice to visit for a few days with Dalles and Sandy's sister and brother-in-law, Cindy and John.

The first week of June we drove the RV to Staples to spend the weekend with all of my brother Glen’s family. It's hard to get all 5 of their kids to be together other then at Christmas or Thanksgiving.

On June 27th Joe, Glen, Dale and I headed out on a four day Motorcycle trip to the La Crosse, WI area. We stayed in La Crosse and did day trips out of there. There was a little rain, but we got some nice rides in.

Joe and I left July 10th on a 9 day 3,919 mile motorcycle trip to the NE part of the USA. We crossed lake Michigan on this ferry from Manitowoc, WI to Ludington, MI.

One of our stops was in Laudon, NH. We got there and stated looking for a motel around 7PM.  It took until 8:30 to find one on our route. NASCAR was in town. $200 a night for a cheap motel.

After we drove through DC we continued west to the Skyline Drive Parkway which we took south. It was a lot like the Blue Ridge Parkway. Then we headed for home. 

This trip was for Joe to say he had ridden his motorcycle in all 49 states in North America. The one's in bold are states he needed.

Wisconsin, Ontario, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine,

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Quebec?, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,  West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and of course Minnesota. Now all Joe needs is to take a trip to Hawaii.                                                    

Until Next Time,

Dave and Sandy