Home Sweet Home

We arrived back home in Belmont, NH on Wednesday, October 26. The previous day we visited my sister and her family in Connecticut. We had planned to have dinner with my brother and sister-in-law in Connecticut on Wednesday night but had to change our plans when we looked at the weather forecast for Belmont. We originally planned to come home on Thursday, but due to the anticipated inclement weather with possible ice and snow, we came home a day early. Neither one of us wanted to deal with a motor home, towing a car, on icy or snowy roads. Better to be safe than sorry!

It was so nice to get back home. Our whole family was at the house to greet us when we arrived. It was great to finally see and hug everyone. The house seems huge after living in the motor home for almost three months. The dogs are also thrilled to be back home and are enjoying being able to run free in the backyard instead of being tethered to a leash all the time.

We had so many exciting and wonderful adventures on this trip. Thank you to everyone who followed us on this blog as we traveled around the U.S. We hope that everyone gets an opportunity to do some traveling like this one day. What a great way to see the U.S. of A.

As this blog comes to a close, I can’t help but think that the third time really was the charm. When I named this blog, I hoped it would be a good omen for our trip.

When thinking about what images I could use as this trip came to an end, I was reminded of breathtaking sunrises and sunsets that we viewed during our trip, so here are some of those images. We hope you enjoyed being on the road with us.

Chowchilla, CA Sunset

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Santa Fe, NM Sunset

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Carlsbad, NM Sunset

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Gallup, TX Sunset

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Fort Stockton, TX Sunset

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Pigeon Forge, TN Sunset

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West Memphis, AK Sunrise

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Last but not least, we leave you with some travel trivia!

We:

were on the road for 87 days

drove 8,789 miles

traveled through 28 states

stayed at 42 RV Parks/Campgrounds

stopped 25 times to gas up the RV

spent $.33 per mile for gas in the RV

took almost 3,000 pictures

Asheville, North Carolina and The Land of Good Eats

Asheville, North Carolina was on our list of places to visit on this trip because of… FOOD! Last year when we were on our way back home from our ill-fated attempt at this cross-country trip, we dined at a restaurant called the Tupelo Honey Café in Charlotte, NC. It was really good and we learned they had about a dozen restaurants. We hoped to find time to dine at another one on a future trip. Then we found out that their flagship restaurant was in Asheville. Asheville is home to many great chefs and fine dining restaurants that have been written up in magazines like Food and Wine and Bon Appetit.

Fast forward to this year…

Prior to arriving in Asheville, I went online and found a guided, walking foodie tour called Eating Asheville. It would include stops at six eating establishments, three paired alcoholic beverages and dessert. It sounded good and had good ratings from Trip Advisor so I booked a tour for the two of us.

When we arrived in Asheville, NC, we began our food fest with a stop at Tupelo Honey Café. Pete and I ordered a few small plates to share. I ordered Fried Green Tomatoes served on a bed of goat cheese grits with a red roasted pepper coulis and some basil. They were amazing! I also ordered a house cured, dry rubbed Pork Belly that was served over goat cheese grits and topped with a caramelized sweet onion sauce. Pete ordered the Crispy Brussels Sprouts topped with fresh herbs, lemon, bacon, and served with a garlic buttermilk ranch dipping sauce. He also ordered Southern Seafood Tacos which had blackened white fish, a corn and jalapeno slaw and green tomato salsa. Everything was as good as we hoped it would be. Unable to find room for dessert, we opted to take home a piece of their brown butter pecan pie with dark chocolate sauce. Think… late night snack!!! It was a great start to our food fest.

Top L to R - Southern Seafood Tacos, Pork Belly

Center - Crispy Brussels Sprouts

Bottom - Fried Green Tomatoes

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I had not yet had any southern fried chicken on this trip, so I went online and found a place that is frequented by the locals. It is called Moose Café and that is where we dined on our second night. Moose Cafe is a farm to table restaurant situated right next door to the Western North Carolina Farmers’ Market. Unlike farmer’s markets in New Hampshire that are mostly open on specific days of the week in the summer and fall, this one is open everyday, year round. Moose Café purchases much of the restaurant’s provisions from the farmers’ market. The café had a real country ambiance with checkered oil cloth covered tables. Our waitress had a southern drawl and was very attentive. I ordered the Southern Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes, chicken gravy and a spinach salad that had bacon, egg and a warm bacon dressing. Pete ordered the All You Can Eat Seafood Platter with fried white fish, fried shrimp, green beans and cole slaw. The prices were unbelievably reasonable. Pete’s Seafood Platter was only $14.95. My fried chicken dinner was only $10.95. All meals came with cornbread and fresh baked biscuits with apple butter. My Southern Fried Chicken was excellent. It was crispy on the outside with perfectly spiced breading, and the chicken was moist and tender. Pete’s seafood platter arrived and it was loaded with fish and shrimp. He said it was really good but decided early on that he wasn’t going to be able to finish the first platter, let alone any additional fish and shrimp. He no sooner said that when our waitress arrived at our table with a second platter loaded with fish and shrimp. Pete told her that he was never going to be able to finish the first platter and she told him she was just trying to stay ahead because many people eat three or four platters! She brought over a take-out container so Pete could take the rest of the fish and shrimp home. Pete ended up with four large pieces of fish along with about 20 large shrimp. I don’t know how they could possibly make a profit on that meal.

Southern Fried Chicken and All You Can Eat Fish Platter

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After we finished dinner, the farmers’ market was still open so went in to check it out. There were many local vendors selling herbs, honey, jams, jellies, meats, cheese, vegetables, fruits and beverages like cider. I don’t think I have ever seen so many different kinds of cider. There were also vendors selling things like baskets and crafts. We bought a couple pounds of honey, a pound of Amish salted butter, and some ground savory that I will use in some tomato and goat cheese tarts when we get back home.

The next day was our last day in Asheville and the day of our foodie tour.

We met our tour guide, Kasey, at a place called the Bier Garden. We found out that there were 14 people on the tour and that our guide had managed to get eight establishments booked for our tour instead of six. I was already beginning to think we would be very full by the end of the tour. The Bier Garden served us samples of a cappuccino beer along with a serving of their mac and cheese with beef short rib. I’m not a beer drinker so I passed on that, but Pete likes beer. He said it was good. The mac and cheese was very tasty. From there we headed outside on a rainy and blustery walking tour.

Mac and Cheese with Short Ribs at the Bier Garden

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Our next stop was at an Ethiopian restaurant. We were greeted by the owner and ushered to our tables. We were served a small cup of Ethiopian coffee along with a flatbread called injera. The bread was a dark gray color, spongy and rolled up like a small jellyroll. It was served with two sauces and some vegetables. The first sauce was called Miser W’at and it was made from red lentils cooked in a sauce made with a spice mix called berbere. It had quite a bit of heat to it. The second sauce was called Kik Alitcha W’at and was made from yellow peas simmered in a mild sauce of onion, herbs and spices. It was not spicy at all and had a very mild flavor. The last accompaniment was called Alitcha Vegetables. It was beets and carrots cooked with onion, ginger and garlic.

Next, we walked to a restaurant called Mojo. There we were served their version of fish and chips which was a small crispy tortilla topped with some cabbage slaw and catfish.

Mojo's version of fish and chips

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After Mojo, we went to an Italian restaurant called Strada Italiano. We were served a delicious large ravioli appetizer that was filled with spinach and ricotta cheese. They make the ravioli themselves. After boiling the ravioli, they place it on a gas grill to brown it a bit and then serve it with arugula and a cherry tomato cream sauce. It was so tasty, but we would have liked it to be a bit warmer. They served us as soon as we sat down at our tables, so I think the food was plated and sat in the kitchen before we arrived. The appetizer was also served with a red wine.

Ravioli at Strada

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Right next door to Strada was The Social Lounge where we were served a Pork Cheek Sarnie slider topped with applewood bacon, vegetable slaw and shoestring fries. They also served us a cocktail that was on the rocks called the Thalia. It was made with gin, pineapple and lime juice, bay and basil leaves and a floating layer of Angostura. It is one of their most popular cocktails and was very refreshing along with the slider and fries. We were beginning to feel full with three more places to go.

The rain finally subsided and after walking a couple of blocks, we arrived at Creperie Bouchon. We were served a small sandwich called a Croque Monsieur along with their award winning Pomme Frites and a glass of red wine. The sandwich was made on tasty bread that reminded me of brioche, the ham was very flavorful and the Guyere cheese was melted and browned on top of the sandwich. The Pomme Frites were tossed with Herbs de Provence and served with a red roasted pepper aioli. We were told that they have been voted as having the best “fries” in town five years in a row. They were yummy but I could not finish the sandwich or the fries. Six down and two to go!

Croque Monsieur and Pomme Frites

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A short walk brought us to the Gourmet Chip Company. They served us their Parisian chips which were Idaho and Sweet Potato kettle style chips tossed with rosemary, thyme, sea salt, a white truffle spritz and goat cheese crumbles. They have 12 different “flavors” and will ship their chips anywhere. Couldn’t eat too many chips, we were stuffed and had one place left on our tour.

Parisian Chips

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Last but not least, we ended up at Chocolate Gems where they make their own truffles, chocolates and gelato. We were served peanut butter truffles with small scoops of chocolate and matcha gelato. Matcha is a green tea powder they use to flavor one of their gelatos. Not sure how we managed, but the truffles and gelato were consumed pretty easily.

Chocolates on Display at Chocolate Gems

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So here we were at 4:30 in the afternoon, we had spent two and a half hours eating our way through some of Asheville’s local favorites. I don’t think we could have eaten another bite of anything else.  What a great ending to a few days in Asheville, NC! We said our good-byes to our fellow foodies and our guide and waddled back to our car. Neither one of us needed anything to eat for the rest of the day!

Kasey, our foodie tour guide

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This was our last big hurrah before we begin making the trek north and heading for home.

Only one blog post to go after this one!

Two Techie Tourists Take Time To Travel To Tennessee

Then we were walking in Memphis, we were walking with our feet ten feet off of Beale…Walking in Memphis, but do we really feel the way they feel…

Not the real lyrics, but you get the point!

Beale Street

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When we arrived in the Memphis area, we stayed at an RV Park right on the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Arkansas. It was a simple, rustic, but cool, in its own way, RV park. Being right on the Mississippi River, this campground floods every spring, some years the flooding is deeper than others. This is why the park is so simple. Before the spring floods, they move many of their buildings (which are on wheels) to higher ground.  It was a convenient place to stay and only a fifteen minute drive to get across the river to Memphis, Tennessee. They also had huge grassy, open areas where we could take the dogs for a walk and throw the Frisbee.

Pete, Simon and Rosey along the

Mississippi River

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Campground Building Showing Flood Water Level

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One of the places we visited in Memphis was the Cotton Museum. Cotton had been king in Tennessee long before Elvis became the king! In honor of this cash crop, a cotton museum was opened in 2006 in the building that had been the Memphis Cotton Exchange. Exhibits told the history of this crop beginning with the slave trade and how people hand-picked the cotton, cleaned the seeds from the fibers and then spun the fibers into yarn that could then be woven into cloth. The museum exhibits also explained how technology changed how the cotton was picked, cleaned and spun in later years.

There were videos we watched of individuals who once worked at the Cotton Exchange. They explained their job and how the buying and selling of cotton took place at the exchange.

Cotton Museum Display of Pricing Board

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Cotton Gin and Cotton Bale

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We spent time roaming along Beale Street. We ended up having lunch at the Hard Rock Café on Beale Street. It is in a building that used to be a clothing store named Lansky’s where Elvis bought his clothing. The story we were told was that when Elvis was a teenager, he would window shop at Lansky’s all the time and the owner would ask Elvis when he was going to come into the store and actually buy something. When Elvis began singing he needed some new clothes and the owner of Lansky’s gave Elvis a line of credit to buy clothes for his performances. Elvis became one of Lansky’s best customers along with musicians like Roy Orbison and Issac Hayes. Lansky’s now has stores in a couple of different locations in Memphis. There is a great interview online with the owner of Lansky’s that tells this story in detail. Go to:  http://www.classicbands.com/LanskyInterview.html

Elvis Statue at Visitor's Center

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We didn’t realize that Gibson had a guitar factory in Nashville. When we found out they had a factory tour, we decided to go on one. We viewed workers (called Luthiers) binding layers of wood together, molding the shapes of the body of the guitar, fitting the neck to the guitar, painting and lacquering them, buffing them to a glossy finish, and finally tuning the guitars. Any finished guitar that does not meet Gibson’s stringent requirements is destroyed; they are not sold as seconds or at a discounted price. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take any pictures during the tour.

Gibson Factory Tours have been showcased on the Travel Channel’s “Made in America” series. If you go to:   http://www.gibson.com/Gibson/Gibson-Tours.aspx   you can watch videos of their factory tours.

Bigger Than Life Guitars on Display

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Gibson Guitar Showroom

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We took a 90 minute bus tour of Memphis called the Backbeat Memphis Mojo Tour. Our guide, who was also a musician, not only gave us information about the history of blues, soul and rock and roll, but played a guitar and had us join her in singing tunes most of us were familiar with from our younger years. We drove by numerous recording studios and parks where people like Elvis, B.B. King, and Johnny Cash performed before they became famous. Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable and had lots of stories to tell about how the churches and gospel music had an impact on the music in Memphis. We drove by some of the old hangouts where bootleggers sold their moonshine and performers entertained with their music. Lots of current musicians still come to Memphis to record their music at these recording studios.

Tour Guide on Backbeat Memphis MojoTour

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B.B. King Statue at Visitor's Center

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We left Memphis and drove on to Nashville. We had hoped to dine at one of the Neely’s BBQ restaurants, but found out that all of them had closed. I looked into Segway tours for Tennessee and found one in Nashville, so I went online and booked a tour for us. We spent two and a half hours riding around Nashville on Segways taking in the sights of the city. What a great way to see so much up close! We would never be able to see things so well if we were on a bus or in a car and we would never be able to cover so much of the city on foot in two and a half hours.

Segway Tour Nashville

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Redneck Fall Decoration at a Plumbing Company

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From Nashville, we traveled to the Gatlinburg area. We drove through Pigeon Forge which is a huge tourist area. There were lots of carnival type rides, arcades, t-shirt and souvenir shops, restaurants, bars, and hotels. Not our kind of place but obviously the kind of place a lot of other people visit.

One thing that really stood out about this whole area of Tennessee was how much everyone decorates their businesses and homes for the fall season. I have never seen so many beautiful, big fall displays.

Bear Fall Display

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Farmer Fall Display

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In Gatlinburg, we went up to the top of their space needle to get a 360° view of the city. Again, there were lots of tourist places similar to Pigeon Forge but on a slightly smaller scale. The 41^st Gatlinburg Craftsmen’s Fair was taking place while we were in town so we browsed through over 180 booths watching people performing their craft as well as looking through their displays of items for sale. Craftspeople from all over the U.S. travel to Gatlinburg for this crafts fair. Many of the crafts were of the same caliber you would find at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair in Sunapee. We bought a couple pieces of art that we thought were reminiscent of the area to hang up at home and remind us of our travels.

View of Gatlinburg from the Space Needle

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Gatlinburg Space Needle

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On another day, we packed up the pups in the car and headed into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is one of the national parks I have wanted to visit for a number of years but for whatever reason, we never seemed to get there. So now here we were and we drove for hours on the winding roads taking in the beautiful fall colors of the leaves. The one thing about this area that really surprised Pete and me was the autumn colors of the leaves. When we lived in Virginia many, many years ago, I hated fall because the leaves just faded to brown with virtually no color at all. I thought the whole southeast was like that but boy were we mistaken. Both of us were homesick for our autumn colors and here they were in Tennessee! Our drive that day reminded us so much of driving up in the White Mountains and along the Kancamagus Highway in the fall.

Autumn in the Great Smoky Mountains

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Great Smoky Mountains

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The next day, we left Gatlinburg to travel to Asheville, NC. We decided to take a route that went right through and over the Great Smoky Mountains. We even found a beautiful place to pull off the road with the motor home that was by a bubbling stream where we were able to take a break from driving and make a cup of tea. While we were sipping our tea, we saw a horse and wagon on the other side of the stream with people taking a ride through the woods on a dirt road. We had one of the most scenic drives of our trip that day. The weather and the foliage couldn’t have been more perfect.

Roadside Area Where We Took a Tea Break

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Great Smoky Mountains

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Great Smoky Mountains

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Great Smoky Mountains

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A Little Bit of This and A Little Bit of That

When we departed Santa Fe, we took a couple of days to travel leisurely to San Antonio, TX. Our travels from Santa Fe took us through the town of Roswell, famous for its alien sightings. Then we drove through miles of oil fields before we landed in Carlsbad, NM for the night. We actually found a couple of aliens waiting for us at the campground! This KOA campground had a small cafe offering several BBQ items on their menu. We had smoked beef brisket and spare ribs with homemade potato salad. It was simple, inexpensive and very good. When we woke up the next morning, the odor of oil from an oil refinery permeated the air. It seemed strange because there wasn’t any odor in the air when we arrived the night before. Once the wind changed direction, the odor dissipated, so I guess the breeze was blowing the odor in a different direction the previous day. I can’t complain because that oil is probably helping to fuel our travels in the motor home.

The Aliens Have Landed

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Back on the road, we continued to see many more oil fields as we headed for a campground in Fort Stockton, TX. We stayed at this campground back in 2009 when we made our last cross-country trip. The campground is home to the Roadrunner Café that makes the best biscuits we have ever had. They are also “famous” for their chicken fried steak, so I decided to give it a try. It reminded me of a breaded and fried cube steak. It was tender and surprisingly, pretty flavorful.

When we next hit the road, we saw mile after mile of pecan groves. We stopped for the night in Junction, TX and camped under pecan trees. I had to laugh when I found out that their password for the Wifi network was: eatmorepecans. I’m glad we didn’t arrive a week earlier at this campground because the owner told us they had received six inches of rain the week before and the campground had flooded. No wonder they had lots of green grass. Simon and Rosey thoroughly enjoyed being able to walk around and play in the grass instead of all the sand and gravel they had encountered for the past few weeks.

Speaking of the dogs, they have been phenomenal travelers. They are so into our routine when we set up at a campsite. If I forget, Simon reminds me to “unpack” his Kong toy which I keep on the upper bunk bed while traveling. He stands on his hind legs and woofs at me while looking up at the bunk. When we are packing up in the morning, they know that we are getting ready to travel and they are very good about going out and doing their business before we leave. Rosey is an old pro at traveling, we estimate that since we brought her home in 2004 she has traveled at least 75,000 miles with us. When she knows it will be a traveling day, she jumps up on the couch and patiently waits until we roll out of the campground or RV park.  Simon is more of a “gotta know everything that’s going on” kind of dog. He likes to stand up front by the dashboard of the motor home or jump up on the dashboard and use it like his bay window at home to survey what is going on outside. When we first take off in the morning, he’s the “navigator” and has his nose glued to one of the air vents in the console sniffing the air like crazy. Then he usually lies across my lap with his hind legs on the floor and the rest of his body on my lap. He often rests his head on the arm rest to my right so he can look out the window. Simon almost always takes a short nap this way and then heads over to the couch where he and Rosey snooze. If we are on a smooth highway, they will sleep for quite a while. If the road is bumpy they wake up sooner. If we begin to slow down to take an exit or we come up on some traffic lights, they notice right away and come up front to check out what is going on. Simon knows that when we are traveling he cannot jump up on the dashboard. As soon as the engine is off, that becomes his perch to guard the homestead! I have a small carpet up there so he can lie down comfortably. We have had numerous people in campgrounds and RV parks comment about how Simon stays up on the dashboard when we are away from the motor home. They think it’s really funny when he is lying down and sleeping up there.

 Rosey found the pillow

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 Simon is on Duty Safeguarding the

Home on Wheels

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Simon Relaxing up on the Dashboard

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  Now Simon has the pillow

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 Simon and Rosey Sharing the Couch

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 Simon and Rosey Snuggling on the Floor

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 Can you find the real Dalmatians?

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 Rosey on the Couch and Simon on the Floor

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 Simon and Rosey Snuggling on the Couch

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Simon has had quite a bit of socializing with people throughout this trip. He has been very friendly, especially to women. Unfortunately, he and Rosey are not happy about other dogs so we are always vigilant about where we walk and play with them. We had one incident in Pasadena where people were letting their dog run around loose. Unbeknownst to me, the dog ran under our motor home while I was out with Simon. All of a sudden I heard yelping and spun around to find Simon going after the dog. It was so small; I think he thought it was a squirrel, which he hates because they tease him at home. Well, that little dog flew back under the motor home and back to his/her campsite and never ventured down to our site again. We have had a couple other incidences where people have not had their dogs on a leash and those dogs came charging at us when we were walking Simon and Rosey. Every place we have camped has stated in their rules that all dogs must be on a leash at all times unless in a designated, fenced in, dog park offered by the campground. I guess some people don’t think the rules apply to them or maybe they can’t read!

When we have been able to find open grassy areas where we can play with Simon and Rosey, Simon gets to play with his fire hose material Frisbee. It’s the only kind of Frisbee that lasts with him. The plastic ones get destroyed in minutes. Simon knows which outside compartment we keep his Frisbee in and he goes over to it and waits for us to open up the compartment so he can get his toy. He carries it to wherever we are going and carries it back “home” when we are finished. We have a very long leash for him at play time so he can run around and catch his Frisbee when we toss it. He actually likes to flip it into the air by himself and catch it. It’s really funny to watch him. Rosey has no interest in chasing after a Frisbee. At 12 years old, she’s been there and done that. Her favorite pastime is sniffing every tree, bush, post and rock that she can find. Rosey has made it her job to be our trail blazer. She stops and pees numerous times in her quest to help us find our way back “home”. Simon couldn’t care less about that stuff.  He’s also not a leg lifter unless he finds a tree or post that some other dog has peed on. Then he lifts his leg so high that he sometimes falls over backward. I’ll start laughing at him and he will give me a sheepish kind of look.

Simon on His Way to Play Frisbee

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OK, enough about the canines! Back to our travels…

The day we left Junction, TX, we were on our way to San Antonio. While in San Antonio, we visited my godmother (who is also my cousin), her husband and their children and grandchildren. We all had a great time together catching up on what was going on in each others families. My godmother and I spent time looking through old family photo albums and found pictures that I had never seen before of some of our relatives, including a photo of my father when he was a young boy. My godmother cooked up a storm and had us over for brunch and a couple of dinners. Pete really enjoyed her beef brisket the last time we were here and she cooked brisket for us this time too. It was delicious! My cousin, Lisa, baked a decadent chocolate cake for dessert. Pete and I really enjoyed our visit and being able to hang out and relax for a couple of days without running around like tourists. The last time we were in San Antonio the temperature was over 100 degrees. This time the temperatures were in the 80s and it was much more comfortable.

My Godmother and Me

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Once we left San Antonio, we spent one night in Waco, TX where we looked up Naaman’s Championship BBQ for dinner. They won the top prize in the brisket category at the 2010 Mississippi State Championship competition.  It’s the kind of hole-in-the-wall place in a converted gas station that you might see Guy Fieri visiting on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives! The gas station building became the dining room, and the food prep actually takes place in a food truck that is parked along the side of the building. It was fun and the food was really good!

Naaman's Championship BBQ

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We also spent one night in Texarkana before driving across the state of Arkansas and heading to Memphis, TN.

Some of our Travel Trivia:

So far on this trip…

Pete and I have taken over 2,500 pictures.

We have traveled over 7,500 miles.

We have spent over $2,500 on gas for the motor home.

We have stayed in over 35 campgrounds/RV Parks.

Pete's command Center with Three GPS Units, a Cellphone,

and Laptop Computer with Mapping Software

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