After a grocery store run, it was time to return the rental car and take an Uber back to the campground. We decided not to venture out at all – we’re back on the road again tomorrow, and knew that we had a bunch of things to get done....
On Saturday, we drove to the Metro station to catch a train into DC. The Smithsonian museums are all still closed due to the pandemic, but we have always loved visiting the monuments and memorials…so we walked about eight miles, starting near the Capitol, heading to the newest memorial,...
Friday morning, we had a rental car reserved for pickup at a nearby hotel…Connor was flying in from Ohio around noon, and between picking him up/dropping him off at the airport and keeping ourselves entertained for the weekend, we decided a car would be our best bet. From our...
After night #1, we were both really happy with how comfortable the beds were – no crazy aches or pains from the new mattresses. We had purchased some foam toppers and think those really helped. Morning #1, we found a really big challenge – the water pressure in the...
Departure Day has arrived! We left Rochester shortly after 9am. We quickly learned a few things: The touchscreen on the dash was NOT installed properly. It keeps shifting and the radio knob keeps falling off (it’s now in my pocket so we don’t lose it!). Ugh. Back to the...
A few days later, on Good Friday, heading into the Easter holiday weekend (isn’t that always when you find issues?!?), we were at the RV and smelled gasoline. Uh oh. Within a few minutes, Mark had found the issue, and it is definitely one of those “can’t anyone do...
Picking up the RV from winter storage was exciting – it meant that our first trip was coming soon and we would finally hit the road and start our ‘official’ retirement! We delayed pickup by a day when high winds were forecast in Rochester…didn’t seem like the best idea...
Our RV journey began about 27 years ago (1994), not long after Mark and I started dating. We would sometimes talk about how cool it would be to have an RV and travel around the country when we retired. Fast forward a bunch of years, and as our retirement...