April 2- 3, 2015 Continuing North to Pennsylvania

April 2nd, we took our time and drove 20 miles to the Moose Lodge in Milford.  This Moose Lodge has a nice little camping area and a place to dump our tanks. After setting up and having a great lunch at the Lodge, we headed to Dover to do some errands and check out where we need to go tomorrow for our RV appointment.  After supper, we went back to the Lodge to meet up with Scott, who I had talked to a few times this week.  He took us on a tour of the Lodge – what a beautiful place.  What a great time!

Bella’s favorite place when we stop:

Stats for today:

Miles Traveled: 20 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Delaware: SR-23; US-9B: US-1; US-1B; Kirby Road; Beaver Dam Road

April 3rd, we were up early and on our way north to Mr. Tire Auto Center (formerly Carl King Tires) in Dover for a new tire and front end alignment.  We were finished by 11:00 A.M. so away we went – in the rain.

Over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal:

Into Pennsylvania:

Thru Amish country:

Thru the Blue Mountains:

To our street:

We arrived home mid-afternoon, set up and began the process of opening up the house.  By late afternoon, many of our close friends came by – it was great to see everyone and get caught up.  After 564 days on the road, it is good to be home.

Stats for today:

Miles Traveled: 170 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Milford to Dover:

Delaware: Beaver Dam Road; SR-36; US-1; SR-10; US-13; Voshell Mill Road; US-13A

Dover to Home:

Delaware: US-13A; Voshell Mill Road; US-13; US-1; I-95; SR-141; SR-2; SR-41 (we took a wrong turn – )

Pennsylvania: SR-41; SR-10; I-176; US-422; SR-183; SR-901; US-209; Chestnut Street

I am writing this on Thursday, April 9th, 2015.  In the past week we have been busy opening the house, transferring things from the motorhome, fixing things that need to be fixed, and spending time with family and friends.  We moved into the house on Monday and Dusty just loved rolling around on the floor – HA:

We expect to be home most of the summer.  So unless we do some travel, I will not be blogging. .   However, when we go back on the road, I will be back to blogging.  For those of you who get the blog thru email or some type of feed, any blogs will come thru automatically.

Thank you all for following along. 

Have a great summer and enjoy today.

April 14, 2011 Tires and Home

We made our way early this morning to Carl King Tire Company in Camden, Delaware.  And now we are the proud owners of six new tires – YEA!

From there, we headed on home.   It is funny but when we finally make that decision, the pull is strong – LOL!

And even though we are home, it feels like a summer place – hmmmmm??

Miles Traveled:  150 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Delaware: SR-15; SR-10;  US-13; SR-7; SR-1; SR-7

Pennsylvania: SR-7; SR-41; SR-10; I-176; US-422; SR-61; SR-901; SR-209; Chestnut Street – HOME for now.

 

Thank you all for following along with us.  Our plans now are to be home for the summer so I will not be blogging regularly.   But we hope to be back on the road again in September so stay tuned.

Travel safe and enjoy your summer.

April 12 – 13, 2011 – Shopping and Family

Well, we continued our shopping on Tuesday.  We stopped at Lowes for insulation and then to Sears for a compressor.   In Sears, we signed up for their rewards program and won a $10.00 gift certificate – Yea!!.   I then spent the afternoon at JoAnn Fabrics and picked up 3 different fabric patterns for my pockets (and got some great deals too – :-)))   After we did a few more stops for some other items, we were back home and exhausted!!!!   I am not use to this – LOL!!!   We have our work cut out for us this summer!

On Wednesday our daughter, Sheryl, came up from Lewes, Delaware and we had a great visit.  It was so good to see her and get caught up.

We will be back down here at the end of May for graduations.  Sheryl’s two daughters (our granddaughters) will be graduating – one from college and one from high school…   Gosh, I remember when they were born – oh my!

We have also had a wonderful time here at the Elks – everyone is so friendly and they have made us feel so welcome.  This would be a great base to explore the Dover area  - so much history here.

Our site:

Tomorrow we will head over to Camden for new tires and then…….home to PA for the summer.

April 10 - 11, 2011 Travel to Delaware

Sunday morning we said our goodbyes to our neighbors and continued our journey northward.  

Ahh, spring in the east – where the trees are hues of red and gold and light green – with the young leaves just bursting out.   And the flowering trees, oh my.  Did you know that this is the only time of the year that the forest floor has a chance to show its colors – wildflowers – :-))).  Before I retired we did a lot of camping and hiking in PA and VA in the spring and I miss it…  But, you know, once we made the decision to head home, the pull is strong.   So that is why we have done two days of traveling – long first day especially.

Sunday night we stayed at a Wal-Mart in Ashland, VA and tonight we are staying at  the Elks Lodge in Dover, Delaware.

We arrived in Dover around lunchtime, had lunch at the lodge, and went shopping.   You see, Delaware has no state sales tax and since we had a number of large ticket items we wanted to buy, this was the place.   So we are now the proud owners of a new LED TV (to replace our two analog RV TV’s; material to make a new “bra” and wheel covers for the RV; a new ladder; shower bar and curtain (we aim to replace the accordion curtain that we currently have) and other odd’s and end’s.  Tomorrow we will return to shopping – I need to get fabric to make pockets for the RV plus insulation for the back closets (whenever we have cold weather the wall sweats, making everything wet.  In the Flair, we insulated and all was okay – no wet clothes or storage items) plus some more odd’s and ends.  We will be busy this summer – LOL.

Pictures from the road:

The Shenandoah Mountains:

The Potomac River:

 

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge (by Annapolis):

Ships in the Chesapeake:

Trees about to burst – the picture does not do it justice.   Can you see the different color hues:

Flowering Trees – WOW!:

  

Miles Traveled: 636 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Tennessee: SR-170; I-75; I-640; I-40; I-81

Virginia: I-81; I-64; I-295; I-95; SR-207; US-301

Maryland: US-301; SR-300

Delaware: SR-300; SR-44; SR-8; SR-15