Celebrating retirement and reaching the age of 66, I’m off on an adventure – trekking Route 66 across it’s historical miles to Chicago.  I hope you will come along and meet the people and see the sites along the way. 

The journey has been years in the making.  A big decision to retire from our jobs, purchase a car that would pull a trailer, and finally, the one we procrastinated on the longest  – the purchase of a trailer.  We sat in hundreds of trailers at trailer shows and showrooms but just couldn’t seem to make a decision.  Then a friend of a friend was selling his 19 foot trailer and when we saw it, we knew it was the one.  It is small, but has just what we wanted and is a manageable size.  It even fits into our driveway.  Backing up is problematical, but we are getting the hang of it.

We took 2 trial runs:  The Ocean Mesa RV park above El Capitan beach north of Santa Barbara is beautiful, tho pricey.  We took our granddaughter Hailey and her friend Rhea.  They had a ball and the trailer slept 4 nicely.  Then we went to McGee Creek Campground at Lake Crowley in the Eastern Sierras and had a perfect pull through campsite with a view of Crowley and the Sierras.  We sat at our picnic table and watched starling parents feed their young under the watchful eye of a wren.  To boot I caught 5 fish at Benton Crossing

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Ok, we are ready.  Tomorrow morning we head out.  Will report

Right from our campsite at McGee Creek in the Eastern Sierras, we watched mom starling feed the babes.  This was a trial run with our new (used) trailer.