Back at the Shack

Back in Beaufort

Well - another trip is fondly stored in the memory bank.

After leaving Badlands NP in South Dakota on Monday we started pounding the pavement

and arrived home Thursday about 2pm.

We spent 3 nights enroute.

KOA in Waterloo, Ia

KOA in Richmond, In

Mayberry Campground in Mt Airy NC.

The last stop was to allow us to flush the holding tanks well and left us

a 4 hr jaunt to the barn.

A map of our route from SD to NC - about 1,800 miles for the last legs.

Our route took us from South Dakota

Into Minnesota

Thru Iowa and across the Mississippi River into Illinois...

Thru Indiana, Ohio, and past the Capital of West Virginia in Charleston.

Thru Virginia and into NC.

We timed our arrival home for Thursday due to Memorial Day weekend and the

traffic that would be on the road.

As it turned out traffic was still pretty heavy.

We passed this little beauty heading into New Bern, NC

I guessed he was headed to the Outer Banks and I was right as they followed

us all the way till about 3 miles from home where they turned to head

to the Cedar Island Ferry.

I had the assistance of Mr Peabody to help me with trip planning.

Ms Peabody.

Trip Recap 

By the numbers:

7 months on the road.

12,134 miles on the bus odometer

21 States & 2 Canadian Provinces

Endless Laughs.

The map below (from the blog)

I selected 8 months which shows our route.

Beyond the numbers however lies the real story.

The joy of beautiful nights around the campfire with great friends.

Boondocking under the stars.

The Broncos winning the Superbowl.

The places we visited and traveled to with our good friends from all over the world.

Just a few of the highlights:

Hot Springs, Ark

Barbecue in Austin Tx

LBJ Library & Ranch

White Sands New Mexico

Quartzsite

Tombstone, Az

Organ Pipe Cactus NP

Grand Canyon

Goosenecks, Ut

Monument Valley

Joshua Tree NP

Hearst Castle, California

Walla Walla wine weekend

Kelowna, BC

Canadian Rockies

Banff NP  Alberta

Devils Tower Wy.

Badlands, SD

Special thanks to all of our good friends who made 

visiting these places all the more special.

Future Plans

I am kind of in new territory now with no firm plan for our next trip.

I want to get back to Alaska but to do so I really need to set out from here to go there.

I've found that if we do our usual winter in Arizona thing, by the time it is warm enough 

 to head north - we have been traveling for many months (6 or 7) are ready to start heading home.

Last time to Alaska we left home in April - so perhaps we need to hang closer to home

so that next spring we will be fresh and ready to do the trip there like I want to do it....

Spring thru Fall.

So maybe it will be a couple of months in Florida this winter...
Probably a trip to Red Bay for some slide out maintenance.
And I'm sure the travel bug will get me for some other idea.

In any event - we will keep busy between now and then

and keep you posted along the way.

Thanks for following along.

Happy Trails and see you down the road.