Inverness Fl

Inverness FL
1/Apr/24

Getting back into the car to finish the 270 miles was not fun.  We were both glad that we only had a few hours in the car. It was well worth driving 12 hours on the first leg, leaving us a little over 4 hours to get to Inverness.  

Mark and Karen greeted us at the driveway, and after chit chatting for a bit it was time to open up the motorhome and unload the car.  Walking up to the motorhome, we found a surprise that they left for us.

Mark & Karen decorated the RV while we were gone.  They managed to find the only metal surface and covered it with magnetic stickers.  There actually a lot more stickers but they had to put them on the carport walls.  

While making our plans for this trip, a day and a half seemed like plenty of time to get the RV ready to head out.  After all we just spent 10 weeks in it, and we only went back to New Jersey for a month.  While it was enough time we did need all of it.  We  spent the rest of the afternoon unloading the car, and putting everything in the car away.  

I started Monday at the local Chevrolet dealer, getting the car serviced.  We tried to get it done in New Jersey but the first available appointment was at the end of this week well after we left.   Next on the agenda was washing both the car and the motorhome.  The motorhome was extremely dirty and most campgrounds do not allow you to wash vehicles. 

The next piece of the puzzle was grocery shopping, and picking up some last minutes stuff we needed in the RV.  Most of the shopping consisted of  fresh food and perishables.  One of the advantages of travel in an RV instead of a boat, is we have our cars with us, so shopping will never be a problem.  We still like to stock up before we leave.

Once both RV's were packed and ready Mark & I sat down and went over tomorrows route.  We set up our navigation app so the parameters and our routes were the same.

Tomorrow we start making our way to Dutton Alabama.  

Summer Fun 2024

Summer Fun 2024

 Angel and I will be traveling in our motorhome for the summer.  We will be leaving Inverness FL accompanied by our friends Mark & Karen in their motorhome.  We plan to make our way to California, and back.  We have approximately 50 stops planned over 120 days.  Again like our Great Loop Adventure we do no thave a schedule and our planned stops are subject to change.

Some of the planned stops include;  Zion National Park, Sequoia National Park, Las Vegas, Crater Lake, Mt Rainer, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, plus many more.  This is a rough idea of where we will be stopping.

We met Mark and Karen at Delaware City Marina, our first stop on our Great Loop trip.  During the Loop Angel and I decided we wanted to buy a motorhome and continue our travels on land.  Mark and Karen decided to do the same thing.  Last winter the four of us traveled  through Florida and the South East in our motorhomes.  While we were traveling we decided that 2024 we would head out west.

We left Bordentown NJ this morning March 30th, after moving Nothing To Plunder from her winter berth at D&S Marina in Tulleytown PA, to our summer slip at Bordentown Yacht Club.  

Since we no longer like marathon drives, we stopped in Savanah Ga, tackling 730 miles of the 1000 mile drive to Florida.  Angel found a somewhat reasonably priced hotel with a hot tub. (After twelve hours of driving the hot tub felt great!) 

Pulling up to the hotel, we were not sure we were going to stay there or look for another option.  It was very obvious the hotel was under construction.  Half of the parking lot was closed, filled with dumpsters and equipment and there were crates surrounding the entrance.   

Entering the lobby most signs of the construction disappeared, and the front desk clerk assured us they were open for business, and our room was newly remodeled.  Going into our room, not only could we smell the new carpet, the built in hair dryer still had the plastic wrap on the cord.  

After a quick dinner and a soak in the hot tub we turned in for the night. Since we only have about a four hour drive in the morning, there will be no alarm clocks and a nice leisurely morning.

Tomorrow we arrive in Inverness, where we will have a day and a half to reprovision the RV and get an oil change in the Trail Blazer.  Originally I had also planned to change the oil in the RV before we headed out west, but while we were back in NJ, Mark was beyond kind to us, and changed for me.  He also upgraded the transmission cooler. (The upgrade was Marks suggestion, to help the transmission while traveling in the mountains.)