Joe and I have been on the road now for about 6 weeks. A few things I know for sure –  We have seen some amazing, beautiful country and we’ve only been in three states.  We miss the kids and grandbaby a lot and at times it really hurts.  Travelling with two 14 year old dogs is like travelling with 2 two year olds (except you can’t leave the 2 year olds in an RV by themselves for a few hours).  And most of all I know that we are truly blessed in so many ways.

 Our seventh day of Escapees RV Club Escapade just finished. We survived some really hot weather several days in a row and a couple of nights of scary storms but what a great learning experience!The first two and a half days were boot camp for first-timers.Joe loved it and I was bored.It was all technical things such as tire pressure stuff, weight load in the RV and other guy stuff which I know is important in our travels but just couldn’t get my head into it after the first couple of 3 hour seminars.So I spent quality time with the dogs and Joe took in all the information.  Monday started the actual Escapade seminars. They were great!We could elect to go to 4 seminars a day and pick from 5…

We set a date of Aug 9th to start our adventure. We were finally going to leave Minnesota and start the next stage of our life – full-timing. Oh, we have been living full-time in our 5th wheel since March but staying pretty close to “home” (Minnesota). With work done and all of our paperwork finally finished it was time to leave. Our last week in Minnesota was a fabulous week. There were luncheons with friends, dinners with family and friends and a lot of family time. Our son Zach flew in from Ohio for 4 days. We were able to have a couple of days with the entire family but there always felt like something was missing. Our future daughter-in-law, Lauren, was unable to come with Zach because of…