Mar 21, 2013 - 3-12-13 Sidney, Ohio

We made it home. The new motor home got 15.9 MPG on the way. The old one got 8.5 MPG. The old one used gasoline and the new one uses diesel. It was a fairly uneventful trip. We kept warm as we overnight ed in a Wal-mart parking lot just South of Nashville Tenn. think the new one is as well insulated as the old one. We're glad to be home and Sally is concerned about her mother. It's cold here.

Dec 25, 2012 - It's gonna snow!

Oh my, three days before we,re rescheduled to leave and the weather forecast is for a blizzard starting tonight. That's going to make the taking down of the outside Christmas lights and the loading of the RV rather difficult. Oh well not much we can do about it.

Oct 31, 2012 - Getting Ready

Sally has reservations in most of the places we are staying this winter. We plan to leave the 28th of December. If anyone is receving these updates and nolonger wants to receive them let me know via email or post to MyTripJournal comments section and I will remove you from the update email list. If you know someone who would like to receive them and isn't have them email me or request updates in MyTripJournal. It won't be long and we'll be off to Florida.

Mar 4, 2012 - March 2nd

Well, we did manage to get some sleep last night. The area did calm down late in the night. Many of you know about the bad weather that was going on this day. Well I can say we didn't see the worst of it. It was windy driving but not anything like what you are seeing on TV. We did see prolonged rain in Northern Alabama in the morning and constant gusting of wind that made small steering corrections a constant. We did get in a downpour on Northern Kentucky and pulled to the side of the Interstate to wait for 7-8 minutes for it to subside. We...

Dec 6, 2011 - December 6th

Getting plans ready to take off after Christmas and before New Years. We expect to reach Clinton Tennessee the first day, Columbia South Carolina the 2nd day, and St Marys Georgia the third day. Hoping to spend the evenings in Walmart parking lots. Taking my sister Carolyn for the first couple of weeks. If anyone wants to be removed from the update email list send me an email at tbarker@woh.rr.com. or leave a message on the blog site. If you know of anyone that wants to receive an email after an update has been made to the blog site send...

Feb 24, 2011 - 2-23-2011

We left Nashville this morning about 7 AM. We arrived home about 4:30 PM. We traveled We traveled 360 miles today. We spent 50 minutes in Kentucky nearing Louisville, in a traffic jam. We traveled 2 miles in that time. Ween we were able to proceed at normal speeds nothing was seen that caused the jam. It was generally a cloudy and cool day to travel. We didn't see snow until north of Dayton and ground cover around Troy and several inches at home. Ho well welcome back I guess.

Dec 27, 2010 - Ready to leave

We had a problem with our house batteries. They froze and we needed to replace them. I hooked them up backwards. Chris Black helped me determine that fact. Corrected the connection. We loaded to RV today. We're ready to leave in the morning ,Tuesday, after shutting down the house. and hooking up the pickup. Plan to reach Knoxville tomorrow. We'll pick up Meemaw (Sally's mother) tomorrow and be on our way.

Dec 14, 2010 - Preperation

We took the motor home in to have the generator looked at. Started out as needing new brushes. Things got worse. The voltage regulator was bad. Then another part was found to be defective. Total estimated cost was $850. We gave them the go ahead. When they started the found yet another problem. The part that holds the windings in place was broken. Estimated cost was over $2000. We decided not to fix it and we will travel without a generator. We're ready to get out of this cold weather and plan to leave December 28th.

Aug 25, 2010 - Statistics

Just a few final statistics to close the blog on Alaska. The trip took 68 days. We traveled 12,233.9 miles. The RV averaged 10.99473 Miles per Gallon for the entire trip. The RV averaged 12.71 MPG after we left the mountains in the western US until we got home.

Aug 9, 2010 - August 6th, Sidney Ohio

August 6th, Sidney Ohio. We drove 591 miles today. We started the day with the idea of camping in Illinois. But, we got to an Interstate highway around 11 am and our attitude soon changed and we felt we wanted be home. So, we drove till 11 pm including the loss of an hour due to the time zone change. So, we're home. Now we need to buy a new clothes washer.

Mar 5, 2010 - Woodalls Campground book

Received my copy of the Woodall's listing of campgrounds in North America yesterday. This book list all of the campgrounds public and private and there locations. With this book and the Milepost book we should be able to find a campground when we need one.

Feb 19, 2010 - Planning

Received my copy of the Milepost yesterday. The Milepost is a book that describes the Alaska highway and other highways in Alaska and British Columbia in great detail. It tells of locations of campgrounds, services, points of interest and recent road conditions in mile by mile. Now I can do more planning.