Yes, it is over a week until we leave heading north - but I have started getting ready.
Bear and Peaches have had their shots updated and will get the health certificates next week. You have to have that to go in and come out of Canada!! Of course, they are now feeling pretty bad. Peaches spent the night in the middle bathroom - just landed there and had not moved. The Bear was backed in beside the toilet in the same bathroom. They are still there - not moving - and Peaches cries if you pick her up. The Bear just goes limp and whimpers. Plus, their little noses are warmish.
The grocery purchasing has also begun. The other travel blogs Jimmy follows say to be sure and buy your paper towels in the ole US of A!!! So, got them, books for me, the frozen adult beverages that they sell at Walmart and the makings for spaghetti to make and take with us. Will be picking up a boneless ham, turkey breast and barbeque pork roast from Honey Baked next week (those were the coupons on the web today). Then I have to make the trip to Costco for stuff I need to buy in bulk!!! Most important is to stock up on my Coke Zero's!!!!
Have to get the Jeep's license renewed (expires in July) and both the motorhome and Jeep inspected next week. I think Jimmy also has to take it to the tow bar place and get them to check on something. Then there is the trip to the bank. I don't even want to think about that yet.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Next Trip
A few weeks ago, I mentioned to Jimmy that I would like to go somewhere this summer where the weather is cooler. I was thinking maybe the mountains of Colorado. But, Jimmy always takes the hint and makes a little trip into a wonderful experience. So, we are leaving around the 10th of July and heading to Canada!!! I'm going to start this blog with the 'getting ready' phase in addition to the going phase and the coming home phase.
Last night we coordinated Travis' travel to Calgary to meet up with us so that he can enjoy the cooler weather too!!! So, this is going to be a family trip, excluding only Rhett and Scarlett - Travis' cats. Peaches and The Bear have both been to the vets today to get all of their shots and their health certificates so that they can go to Canada in the motorhome with us. So, other than picking up a little more cash money, groceries, and a few other odds and ends, we are about ready to go!!!
Watch this site for more information as the trip gets underway.
Last night we coordinated Travis' travel to Calgary to meet up with us so that he can enjoy the cooler weather too!!! So, this is going to be a family trip, excluding only Rhett and Scarlett - Travis' cats. Peaches and The Bear have both been to the vets today to get all of their shots and their health certificates so that they can go to Canada in the motorhome with us. So, other than picking up a little more cash money, groceries, and a few other odds and ends, we are about ready to go!!!
Watch this site for more information as the trip gets underway.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
September 30, 2009 - Sevierville, TN
We got up yesterday morning and drove all the way to Sevierville (Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area). We had stayed at this RV park before, so we knew it would be comfortable for the few days before we head to Nashville.
Happy birthday Garrie - September 30. Happy birthday Rebecca - October 1.
September 30 we headed out to Cade's Cove. The last time we were here we saw bears. Not this time. We did see wild turkeys, deer and bats (hanging in one of the log cabins). I did take pictures, but the bears last year were better.
Happy birthday Garrie - September 30. Happy birthday Rebecca - October 1.
September 30 we headed out to Cade's Cove. The last time we were here we saw bears. Not this time. We did see wild turkeys, deer and bats (hanging in one of the log cabins). I did take pictures, but the bears last year were better.
September 25 through September 29 - Charleston SC
The morning after the ballgame, we got up early to travel to Charleston, SC. Actually, the RV Park was in Johns Island - but everyone would just say Charleston. We got up and got out of there so that we could be at the Citadel for the afternoon parade. Of course, once we got there, a little problem popped up.
I got a call from Holly Springs that the cd that I had left with the Town and Country Garden Club Yearbook which had to be submitted to the state garden club by October 1 had a problem. Of course, the yearbook is on my laptop - but it is a huge file. I had this brainstorm that I could break the big book into smaller components and send it via email. NOT!!!! One page of members (with pictures) equaled one email. So, I decided to head to town, buy two CD's, find the FedEx location, and ship the cd's to Holly Springs so that they could print the yearbook. My intent was to buy the cd's at the Citadel and then watch the parade. After the parade, I would load the file and ship off the overnight letters. Luckily, I got a call after the parade that the correct cd had been located, and I didn't have to do the copying and shipping. Thanks for small miracles since the cd's I bought at the Citadel bookstore were unformatted!!! I didn't know you could buy unformatted cd's anymore.
So, back to the parade. It was a big parade. The Spring semester cadets who had great grades were being honored. The father and mother of one of the honorees was on the stands in front of us - well, the father was. The mother (and her camera) was taking pictures. He must have been really smart, because he was in the group with the highest grade point ratio (they didn't call it averages). Andy and Terry were there, so we sat with them. The school was also honoring a big group of big $ donors at the parade. I don't know how much is big $, but there were a bunch of them. Pictures follow.
Another neat thing happened on Friday. We were driving downtown when we saw our friends Rita and Roland (from Hattiesburg) and their son walking back towards their hotel. Rita was riding in a rickshaw. The guys were walking. We went on down to the battery, and then we went back to their hotel (the Embassy Suites) and joined them for an adult beverage. Then, we all piled in the Jeep and headed over to Shem Creek for dinner. What a cool thing to do. We really enjoyed being with them.
Saturday was just a market and walking day. We didn't buy anything, but we did enjoy walking in Charleston. A really neat thing happened while we were walking along the battery wall. I looked to my right at one of the stairways to get up on the wall (or down off the wall) and there was a lost book propped against the wall. There was a sticker on the front of the book that said "Top 5 Reasons You should pick up this FREE BOOK". It then went on to give some cute reasons. The last was that it is a BookCrossing book. The website bookcrossing.com tracks books as they travel from one person to the next. I don't know where I will leave this copy after I have finished reading it, but I will definitely leave it somewhere.
Sunday we did the harbor tour. Yes, we have done it before. I had not been to Charleston since the new bridge was built, so that was really neat to see it from the water. We did have a great lunch after the tour at Hyman's Seafood Restaurant (and a really good Bloody Mary). I had never eaten at the restaurant before, but I had enjoyed a couple of their hush puppies on Saturday while I was waiting for Jimmy. I kept following the young lady around wishing that I could disguise myself like the guy on the snack bar commercials. She just laughed and gave me another one. If you are every in Charleston, you definitely need to eat there.
Monday, we drove out to Isle of Palms to see the house where Jimmy, Garrie, Joe and George had stayed when they went history touring two years ago. We drove out to the marina and back down to see where they ate when they went to the oyster fest (fund raiser for the volunteer fire department on Sullivan's Island). By then, it was lunch time, so we went to the Poe Tavern and had about the best hamburger I have had in a really long time. Jimmy then decided he wanted to walk across the new bridge. This is apparently a major tourist thing. Of course, you either have to walk both ways or have someone on the other side to pick you up. It took him one hour to walk from Charleston to the entrance to Patriot Point. Quite frankly, I think I could have walked it that direction but for one thing - it is way up high and the wall is not that tall. Being afraid of heights, I would have been a little leery of that walk. I think he was ready for the bottle of water that I had brought him. We did a little more touring via car and then back to the RV.
I got a call from Holly Springs that the cd that I had left with the Town and Country Garden Club Yearbook which had to be submitted to the state garden club by October 1 had a problem. Of course, the yearbook is on my laptop - but it is a huge file. I had this brainstorm that I could break the big book into smaller components and send it via email. NOT!!!! One page of members (with pictures) equaled one email. So, I decided to head to town, buy two CD's, find the FedEx location, and ship the cd's to Holly Springs so that they could print the yearbook. My intent was to buy the cd's at the Citadel and then watch the parade. After the parade, I would load the file and ship off the overnight letters. Luckily, I got a call after the parade that the correct cd had been located, and I didn't have to do the copying and shipping. Thanks for small miracles since the cd's I bought at the Citadel bookstore were unformatted!!! I didn't know you could buy unformatted cd's anymore.
So, back to the parade. It was a big parade. The Spring semester cadets who had great grades were being honored. The father and mother of one of the honorees was on the stands in front of us - well, the father was. The mother (and her camera) was taking pictures. He must have been really smart, because he was in the group with the highest grade point ratio (they didn't call it averages). Andy and Terry were there, so we sat with them. The school was also honoring a big group of big $ donors at the parade. I don't know how much is big $, but there were a bunch of them. Pictures follow.
Another neat thing happened on Friday. We were driving downtown when we saw our friends Rita and Roland (from Hattiesburg) and their son walking back towards their hotel. Rita was riding in a rickshaw. The guys were walking. We went on down to the battery, and then we went back to their hotel (the Embassy Suites) and joined them for an adult beverage. Then, we all piled in the Jeep and headed over to Shem Creek for dinner. What a cool thing to do. We really enjoyed being with them.
Saturday was just a market and walking day. We didn't buy anything, but we did enjoy walking in Charleston. A really neat thing happened while we were walking along the battery wall. I looked to my right at one of the stairways to get up on the wall (or down off the wall) and there was a lost book propped against the wall. There was a sticker on the front of the book that said "Top 5 Reasons You should pick up this FREE BOOK". It then went on to give some cute reasons. The last was that it is a BookCrossing book. The website bookcrossing.com tracks books as they travel from one person to the next. I don't know where I will leave this copy after I have finished reading it, but I will definitely leave it somewhere.
Sunday we did the harbor tour. Yes, we have done it before. I had not been to Charleston since the new bridge was built, so that was really neat to see it from the water. We did have a great lunch after the tour at Hyman's Seafood Restaurant (and a really good Bloody Mary). I had never eaten at the restaurant before, but I had enjoyed a couple of their hush puppies on Saturday while I was waiting for Jimmy. I kept following the young lady around wishing that I could disguise myself like the guy on the snack bar commercials. She just laughed and gave me another one. If you are every in Charleston, you definitely need to eat there.
Monday, we drove out to Isle of Palms to see the house where Jimmy, Garrie, Joe and George had stayed when they went history touring two years ago. We drove out to the marina and back down to see where they ate when they went to the oyster fest (fund raiser for the volunteer fire department on Sullivan's Island). By then, it was lunch time, so we went to the Poe Tavern and had about the best hamburger I have had in a really long time. Jimmy then decided he wanted to walk across the new bridge. This is apparently a major tourist thing. Of course, you either have to walk both ways or have someone on the other side to pick you up. It took him one hour to walk from Charleston to the entrance to Patriot Point. Quite frankly, I think I could have walked it that direction but for one thing - it is way up high and the wall is not that tall. Being afraid of heights, I would have been a little leery of that walk. I think he was ready for the bottle of water that I had brought him. We did a little more touring via car and then back to the RV.
Columbia, SC September 24, 2009
We traveled to South Carolina this week for the Ole Miss/South Carolina football game. I probably will not say anything about the ballgame. Suffice it to say, Ole Miss did not win.
We did drive to Columbia from Lexington - where the RV was parked - during the day with the express purpose of seeing the capital building. Jimmy related the story of how the building was under construction during the Civil War. The building was hit several (I think it was six times) by Northern cannon. The completed building has the hits marked with stars. I'm including pictures below of our tour of the outside of the capital building.
We did drive to Columbia from Lexington - where the RV was parked - during the day with the express purpose of seeing the capital building. Jimmy related the story of how the building was under construction during the Civil War. The building was hit several (I think it was six times) by Northern cannon. The completed building has the hits marked with stars. I'm including pictures below of our tour of the outside of the capital building.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sunday, November 9, 2008
New York City - Travis and me
This isn't a travel entry involving the RV. Travis and I are making a Mother-Son trip to the northeast. We each flew into Philadelphia (he from Montgomery, AL and me from Memphis, TN) on Friday, November 7 where we were picked up by Caesar's in Atlantic City. It was kind of a bleary day, so we just ate the salads that I had picked up in the airport and caught up (it had been a whole week since he had come home for the Auburn/Ole Miss game).
It was kind of neat to approach Atlantic City. I guess it was not what I was expecting. The casino hotels kind of rose up in front of us out of the rainy mist. The Trump casino just looks old. The Caesar's looks like a miniature version of the one in Las Vegas. The ones that we could see off at the marina looked a little more modern and a little newer. Anyway, we got checked in at the VIP counter and went off to locate the Centurion Tower and our ride to the top floor. When we looked out our window, we have a view of Bally's, the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean (the hotel actually backs up directly onto the boardwalk). By the time we got acclimated (and lost a little money), it was time for our dinner reservations at the Roman themed restaurant - Bacchanal. It was a six-course feast starting with a really impressive opening course served on a plastic block filled with dry ice which just looked like a frosty mountain with food all over it. On the top level was a martini glass with slices of mozzarella and some type of cherry confit. There were shrimp, more cheese, olives, meat, bread sticks, grapes, etc. We both had the lobster bisque. Travis had the tomato/mozzarella salad while I had the Caesar salad (while in Rome!!!!). My salad had one anchovy on it - which ended my enjoyment of the salad. Everything smelled like fish from that point on. Travis had the sea bass because it had foie gras on it. I had the crab cakes because it had crab in it. Dessert was a really cute little key lime pie circle for Travis and creme brulee for me. The meal was absolutely wonderful, but neither of us was able to eat more than half of any of the courses - just way too much food. Plus, they kept pouring wine into our glasses - which also filled us up. A little more floor time and then to bed. The next day was the NYC trip. Oh yeah - somewhere in all of the activities previously described - the Hertz guy came to pick us up to get our rental car.
Yes, we drove to NYC. Actually, WE did not drive to NYC. Travis drove to NYC. He had pre-booked us a parking space in town, so we were able to navigate directly to it using multiple methods including GPS. All of those great methods of navigation worked beautifully going to NYC. Getting out of town was a totally different proposition since one of us (me) didn't have a clue as to what direction we were heading and kept getting my highly efficient driver confused. It wound up being kind of a rainy, dreary day, but we walked over 20 miles. We went to lots of the big stores and shopped. We actually bought something at Barney's. I almost bought a ring at Tiffany's - well, I thought about how nice the 20 or so carats would look. Tiffany's was my favorite of all of the stores. It was the catalog brought to life plus some more bling added on. Central Park was wonderful. I think we saw the actual bridge and rocks from Home Alone NYC!!! Tavern on the Green was just like I visualized (I liked the dude in the weird suit - the valet - the best). All in all, a delightful way to spend a day with my son. Pictures follow:
We also made a day trip on Sunday to Philadelphia. Actually, since we flew into Philadelphia, we made a trip back. This is a city to which neither of us had traveled. It was not as exciting as NYC. Plus, it was Sunday, so things were a little slow. We tried to have a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich at one of the highly publicized places, but the line wrapped around about 4 blocks. Neither of us figured anything could be that good. Absolutely no place to park or anything. Of course, part of the problem was that the Giants were playing the Eagles that night - so I guess everyone had come to town to have a sandwich. Pictures follow:
It was kind of neat to approach Atlantic City. I guess it was not what I was expecting. The casino hotels kind of rose up in front of us out of the rainy mist. The Trump casino just looks old. The Caesar's looks like a miniature version of the one in Las Vegas. The ones that we could see off at the marina looked a little more modern and a little newer. Anyway, we got checked in at the VIP counter and went off to locate the Centurion Tower and our ride to the top floor. When we looked out our window, we have a view of Bally's, the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean (the hotel actually backs up directly onto the boardwalk). By the time we got acclimated (and lost a little money), it was time for our dinner reservations at the Roman themed restaurant - Bacchanal. It was a six-course feast starting with a really impressive opening course served on a plastic block filled with dry ice which just looked like a frosty mountain with food all over it. On the top level was a martini glass with slices of mozzarella and some type of cherry confit. There were shrimp, more cheese, olives, meat, bread sticks, grapes, etc. We both had the lobster bisque. Travis had the tomato/mozzarella salad while I had the Caesar salad (while in Rome!!!!). My salad had one anchovy on it - which ended my enjoyment of the salad. Everything smelled like fish from that point on. Travis had the sea bass because it had foie gras on it. I had the crab cakes because it had crab in it. Dessert was a really cute little key lime pie circle for Travis and creme brulee for me. The meal was absolutely wonderful, but neither of us was able to eat more than half of any of the courses - just way too much food. Plus, they kept pouring wine into our glasses - which also filled us up. A little more floor time and then to bed. The next day was the NYC trip. Oh yeah - somewhere in all of the activities previously described - the Hertz guy came to pick us up to get our rental car.
Yes, we drove to NYC. Actually, WE did not drive to NYC. Travis drove to NYC. He had pre-booked us a parking space in town, so we were able to navigate directly to it using multiple methods including GPS. All of those great methods of navigation worked beautifully going to NYC. Getting out of town was a totally different proposition since one of us (me) didn't have a clue as to what direction we were heading and kept getting my highly efficient driver confused. It wound up being kind of a rainy, dreary day, but we walked over 20 miles. We went to lots of the big stores and shopped. We actually bought something at Barney's. I almost bought a ring at Tiffany's - well, I thought about how nice the 20 or so carats would look. Tiffany's was my favorite of all of the stores. It was the catalog brought to life plus some more bling added on. Central Park was wonderful. I think we saw the actual bridge and rocks from Home Alone NYC!!! Tavern on the Green was just like I visualized (I liked the dude in the weird suit - the valet - the best). All in all, a delightful way to spend a day with my son. Pictures follow:
We also made a day trip on Sunday to Philadelphia. Actually, since we flew into Philadelphia, we made a trip back. This is a city to which neither of us had traveled. It was not as exciting as NYC. Plus, it was Sunday, so things were a little slow. We tried to have a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich at one of the highly publicized places, but the line wrapped around about 4 blocks. Neither of us figured anything could be that good. Absolutely no place to park or anything. Of course, part of the problem was that the Giants were playing the Eagles that night - so I guess everyone had come to town to have a sandwich. Pictures follow:
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