This past week Dave and I crossed a large section of the country, using self-imposed travel rules to determine when to stop, took advantage of Harvest Hosts and campgrounds for our overnight stays, and were amazed by the sights along the way.
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What does it take to depart our Sticks & Bricks for a 6 month deployment?
You might be surprised to learn that packing our clothes and gear in the Airstream for a six month trip is far easier than the tasks involved in leaving the house. Packing and loading is a matter of following a checklist and can be accomplished in roughly two days. Prepping the house to sit empty takes more effort, and planning starts a few months out.
Prep Checklists Galore
With empathy for slow moving bears blinking in the Spring sunshine after rising from a restorative winter’s nap, we too are preparing to emerge from our own cozy den and rejoin the bright world to explore. We are thirty days out from our Grand Depart, commencing our second season as volunteers working in Grand TetonContinue reading “Prep Checklists Galore”
Heading Home
Our expectations of what our time in the park would be like closely resembled a Hollywood dream sequence. 32 work hours per week, divided any way we wanted between two people seemed perfect. Two days on, five days off to play, right!? What could be easier?! We hadn’t factored in COVID and its impact on the park, or having a single vehicle into our plans.
A Tour of Our Summer Neighborhood
It has been a whirlwind since we arrived on 19 June. The first week volunteering at headquarters has both of us absorbing new terminology, command structure, and office tasks as quickly as possible. …
For now we thought we’d give you the lay of the land, in this place, our home for the summer. To start, we are camped in the Gros Ventre Campground, near Kelly WY.
Our Cunning Plan
Dave and I have often thought of this adventure as the fruition of a four year old “cunning plan” (Black Adder fans can probably hear Edmund & Baldrick chortling). An elaborate, convoluted, and multi-part scheme that flaunts believability in its potential for success. The plan gets its start in a love story.
Moored, Shift Colors
We’ve begun the return to Pennsylvania in earnest. Our first over night stop was a very pleasant surprise, in Phipps Park, a county park in Stuart Florida. Maybe the friendliest check-in ever, massive boon docking sites, clean if not modern bathrooms, palm trees, and water features.
Thanksgiving and Vacation at Geiger Key Florida
Home for the next week is the Geiger Key Marina and RV Park. It is an old fish camp, with a well rated restaurant as well as water sport equipment rentals. Our camp site, number 22, was a little challenging to get into, but worth it. Flat and with a tiki hut, it backed onto the water, looking into a mangrove island.
Back Home along the Gulf Coast
Just three miles beyond the street we lived on, Sarah’s Lane, is Buccaneer State Park, our home for the week. If you follow in our footsteps, avoid site #13! The 50 amp power has an open ground, the 30 amp doesn’t work at all, but the 20 amp does at least keep batteries charged. The “help” was both comedy and tragedy. All part of the glamping adventure!
DFW and Fredericksburg Texas
Dave and I go our separate ways on our last day in Fredericksburg, Texas. He bikes off on adventures over local trails, and I take the truck into town for a little window/Christmas shopping. And lucky me — there are two quilt shops in town. I pick up a souvenir piece of fabric for a someday project. Dave is impressed with the variety and quality of the outdoor recreational spaces that the town and county made available to the folks of Fredericksburg.