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We are Ray and Lynn Hendrickson and we welcome you to our TripJournal.
Come on in! Join us on our trips and learn with us about people, places and RVing with our motorhome El Rocinante. We invite you to leave your name, present location and your comments in the "Guestbook" or "Leave A Message" spot. Tell us and others of your unique experiences or questions. Let us know if you want to be made aware of new El Rocinante updates by leaving a message in the Guestbook. We will then add you to our monthly update notification. We will never sell or give away your name to a spam list or any other list. It will only be stored on this site.
We would like some help from some of you experienced travelers. Could you help us plan our travel agenda by recomending RV full hookup resorts in the greater USA in which we could stay for a month? We would like only the "best of the best". Thr resort must have a good activity program but also be located in an area with a lot of scenic interests. Please take into account the best season to travel and document these sites. We will document these on this site and also through multimedia. Leave us a message if you know of such places.
I thank my wife Lynn for co-writing this site, being my faithfull proof reader and for suggesting needed changes to our posts.
The name El Rocinante is taken from John Steinbeck's book, Travels with Charlie in which he took a year out of his life traveling the USA with his dog Charlie in a truck camper made specially for him which he called Rocinante. Rocinante is the name of the horse that Don Quixote rode in the famous story. Wherever Don Quixotey traveled he would look for the best in people. He saw them not as they were but what they had the potential to become. His horse Rocinante was always his dependable steed and took Don Quixotey wherever he wanted to go. We decided this also was a good name for our motorhome calling it El Rocinante or "The faithfull nag".
We have always been camping as a family. We first did cabins, then tents and a popup trailer. We sold the popup trailer and were out of camping for four years. We desired to get a new RV in which to travel, but could not decide between a Travel Trailer and a motorhome.In 2001 we had purchased a 1998 Chevy 2500 pickup in preparation to buy a Travel Trailer. That year I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and our plans changed. After treatment I had recovered, but decided that a truck and travel trailer was not the way to go so we traded in the truck on a 2003 Honda Civic.In February of 2005, the RV show came to the Rosemont in Chicago area and we decided to just go look. We saw a 2005 28FT Coachman Freelander motorhome with a slide that both of us knew was the one we wanted, especially since it came with a 3% interest rate to pay it off and we could deduct the tax on the sale and the interest on the loan from our income tax.What follows in the next posts will be the discoveries and travels we make while learning to enjoy our El Rocinante.
We are also Christian Seminar teachers and host a web blog called Teaching from the Word located at http://teachingtheword.blogspot.com/
Come on in! Join us on our trips and learn with us about people, places and RVing with our motorhome El Rocinante. We invite you to leave your name, present location and your comments in the "Guestbook" or "Leave A Message" spot. Tell us and others of your unique experiences or questions. Let us know if you want to be made aware of new El Rocinante updates by leaving a message in the Guestbook. We will then add you to our monthly update notification. We will never sell or give away your name to a spam list or any other list. It will only be stored on this site.
We would like some help from some of you experienced travelers. Could you help us plan our travel agenda by recomending RV full hookup resorts in the greater USA in which we could stay for a month? We would like only the "best of the best". Thr resort must have a good activity program but also be located in an area with a lot of scenic interests. Please take into account the best season to travel and document these sites. We will document these on this site and also through multimedia. Leave us a message if you know of such places.
I thank my wife Lynn for co-writing this site, being my faithfull proof reader and for suggesting needed changes to our posts.
The name El Rocinante is taken from John Steinbeck's book, Travels with Charlie in which he took a year out of his life traveling the USA with his dog Charlie in a truck camper made specially for him which he called Rocinante. Rocinante is the name of the horse that Don Quixote rode in the famous story. Wherever Don Quixotey traveled he would look for the best in people. He saw them not as they were but what they had the potential to become. His horse Rocinante was always his dependable steed and took Don Quixotey wherever he wanted to go. We decided this also was a good name for our motorhome calling it El Rocinante or "The faithfull nag".
We have always been camping as a family. We first did cabins, then tents and a popup trailer. We sold the popup trailer and were out of camping for four years. We desired to get a new RV in which to travel, but could not decide between a Travel Trailer and a motorhome.In 2001 we had purchased a 1998 Chevy 2500 pickup in preparation to buy a Travel Trailer. That year I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and our plans changed. After treatment I had recovered, but decided that a truck and travel trailer was not the way to go so we traded in the truck on a 2003 Honda Civic.In February of 2005, the RV show came to the Rosemont in Chicago area and we decided to just go look. We saw a 2005 28FT Coachman Freelander motorhome with a slide that both of us knew was the one we wanted, especially since it came with a 3% interest rate to pay it off and we could deduct the tax on the sale and the interest on the loan from our income tax.What follows in the next posts will be the discoveries and travels we make while learning to enjoy our El Rocinante.
We are also Christian Seminar teachers and host a web blog called Teaching from the Word located at http://teachingtheword.blogspot.com/
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