tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34247860307173048142024-03-05T17:50:37.099-08:00RV and Me Hit the RoadIn traveling, a companion; in life, compassion ..."Kafka on the Shore" ...................................................................... It's common to experience the joie de vivre while traveling. We grasp the rarity and transience of being there......... At home, we somehow don't see the specialness of a place and a time that won't last forever. Strangers meet and strike up unexpected alliances; in the end, they go their separate ways, but changed forever by those they have met.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-53629743154643234562017-08-30T12:52:00.000-07:002017-08-30T12:52:33.159-07:00Quebec<div style="text-align: center;">
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Step back in time to Europe in the 17th century by visiting Old Quebec.</div>
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North America's premier city is an architectural treasure and a monument to European colonial history in the New World.</div>
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Old Quebec is a bit of old Europe on American soil with it's ramparts, gates and other fortifications the surround the city. Quebec has played a vital role in the colonial wars for control of the Americas.Without the help of the French, George Washington would not have had the financial where with all and man power to defeat the British.</div>
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The legendary French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec early in the 17th century. Quebec is perched on the cliffs over looking the Saint Lawrence ( Saint Laurent) river with views of the countryside for many miles below.</div>
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The city was the capital of New France until 1760, when it became the new British colony before becoming part of independent Canada.<br />
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Boardwalk overlooking the Saint Laurent river</div>
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Accessible by steep stairs or by funicular.</div>
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Old Quebec's lower town, <i>Basse-Ville </i>sprung up</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Le Belle Province"</span></div>
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The island has long been inhabited by the indigenous tribes,</div>
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the Huron people called the island <i>Minigo </i>meaning </div>
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The French explorer Jacques Cartier first set foot on the island in 1535 </div>
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near the present day village of Saint Francois. Where I camped.</div>
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He called the island Ile de Bascuz because of the abundance of wild grapes.</div>
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GPS location of camp site at Saint Francois area on Ile d Orleans</div>
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Early each morning I would walk down to Saint Lawrence river</div>
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and stare at the sun rise and be enchanted by Ile d Orlean's</div>
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beauty. Filled with this <i>immense </i>scenery, how can anyone</div>
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not become grateful for the life God has given us,</div>
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and know with certainty that it is up to us to put life in ours years.</div>
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Notre Dame Bascilaque as seen from Ile d Orleans</div>
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Bridge to cross from Quebec City to the Ile d Orleans</div>
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Family names from many years can be found in the cemetery.</div>
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Grapes still in abundance 400+ years after Jacques Cartier</div>
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Pommes trees - apple trees</div>
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Quebec people call a falls a chute</div>
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Waited an hour to see the 150 ft to 180ft geyser. Good thing there was ice cream to eat while waiting.</div>
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Camped for two nights at Canyon Village on edge of caldera with rim of grand canyon about 1,000 ft walk.</div>
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Hayden Valley in middle of Yellowstone was were most animals could be seen.</div>
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Elk, Moose and deer were seen daily. </div>
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Elk were common in Hayden Valley.</div>
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There are medic clinics in each village of campgrounds and cabins were people stayed. </div>
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There would be men in hip and chest waders in the river fly fishing.</div>
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I enjoyed getting up early watching bison leaving the forest cross the Yellowstone river to the prairie grass. You could see the young bison kick up there heels in excitement to be go to eat in the morning.</div>
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South of Grand Tetons close to Dubois were I stayed at a house for the first time in 10 weeks.</div>
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Dr Stewart and his wife Judy were nice enough to put me up for two days.</div>
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Momma moose and baby moose on the Stewart property when I first arrived from Grand Tetons.</div>
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Prong horn antelope on Stewart property, Warm Spring Mountain near Dubois,Wyoming.</div>
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100 miles South of Grant Village campgrounds in Grand Tetons.</div>
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Mule deer on Warm Spring mountain at 8,700 ft on Stewart property.</div>
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The Capitol of the Province of British Columbia in downtown Victoria.</div>
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Craigdarroch Castle located on the highest hill in Victoria, BC, built by Robert Dunsmuir, a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune from Vancouver Island coal.</div>
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The Castle built on a twenty eight acre estate has a 55,000 square foot house.<br />
Over the last 100 years the Craigdarroch Castle has served as a hospital in 1919<br />
during WWI. The rooms housed recuperating veterans during and after WWI.<br />
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Later in 1921 the hospital vacated and Victoria College was located in the house.<br />
The rooms were changed into class rooms and housing for students to live.<br />
For example the double drawing room became a classroom<br />
for the instruction of English and History. The library was converted into the Registrar's Office.<br />
The formal dining room, fitted with slatted benches, became the math classroom.<br />
The college library was housed in the fourth floor dance hall.<br />
Bedrooms on the second and third floor were converted into classrooms<br />
and offices of instructors.<br />
It wasn't until 1979 that the Conservatory vacated and The Craigdarroch Castle<br />
Historical Museum Society was given the opportunity to operate the Castle<br />
solely as a historic house museum.<br />
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View from top of Craigdarroch Castle of the city of Victoria below.<br />
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My Roadtrek RV has been good to me for two months traveling 9,000 miles on this trip. <br />
There are still 4,500 miles to go back to North Carolina. I hope she gets me home.<br />
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The wood for the library is Spanish Mahogany.<br />
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The library desk.<br />
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There is a fireplace in every room. The fireplace burns coal from Mr Dunsmuir's business.<br />
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Fireplace artwork clock<br />
"Welcome ever smiles and farewell goes out sighing." <br />
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Dining room.<br />
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Clothes of the 1880's.<br />
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Tea set<br />
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Stairway window looking down from fourth floor.<br />
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Guest room.<br />
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Fireplace in every room.<br />
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Children's room.<br />
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Top floor reading room.<br />
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Pool table is four times larger than pool tables of the 21st century. <br />
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All windows are single pane glass.<br />
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Clothing of the 1800's<br />
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The stair cases were made in Arkansas and shipped on five rail cars in the summer of 1890.<br />
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The house has 2,182 wood panels made in Chicago and shipped to Victoria.<br />
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The red slate for the roof was produced in a quarry in Vermont, USA.<br />
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Inlayed floor tile in the top floor observatory.<br />
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The daughter of Mr and Mrs. Dunsmuir.<br />
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Today we had a piano solo by a local student of Victoria College.<br />
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Tea Time as served by the servants at the home. Sans head and hands.<br />
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Sitting room on third floor.<br />
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This blog has been able to be written today only because of the generosity<br />
of Comfort Inn in Bozeman, Montana. I have found a "Hot Spot" for WiFi<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-15440402510394157352013-07-11T19:34:00.002-07:002013-07-13T10:23:02.792-07:00The Butchart Gardens 100 years in bloom. Butchart Gardens. There are 55 acres of flower gardens as well as a boat house/dock on Brentwood Bay along Vancouver Island. Weather is mild year round so flowers do bloom year round.<br />
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The Butchart Gardens are located on Vancouver Island in the Brentwood Bay area. The island is not very large and although the maps of the island are enlarged to show different places of interest. I drove from each location in 10 minutes or less. After three days I noticed my gas gauge had not changed. After Alaska where people would drive four hours to go out for ice cream this is a nice change.<br />
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A view from the top as I walk down into the Sunken Garden that is as large as five football fields.</div>
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This Sunken Garden was a large excavation pit for Mr. Butchart who had a Portland Cement business.</div>
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Mrs Butchart wanted to have a place for a flower garden so she had millions of tons of top soil brought in to grow her garden on top of what was a lime and limestone quarry. Good idea Mrs. B.</div>
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The deep dark forest was a nice relief on a hot day. Today the high temperature will be in the 80's with a cool ocean breeze and nights are usually in lower 50's. I have been camping for two months<br />
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With the large trees and the ferns I imagined this is what the Jurassic period looked like.</div>
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Very old trees with huge roots. Cool and shady walkway leading to the Sunken Garden.</div>
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More stairs to the Sunken Garden. None of the trees, bushes or flowers were here in early 1900's when this are was a limestone quarry. Thanks to Mrs. B for her love of gardens.</div>
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Sunken Garden is 1,500 foot by 1,000 ft across. This is part of the 55 acre Butchart Gardens. </div>
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The Butchart Gardens are located on Vancouver Island about 20 miles North of Victoria the capitol of British Columbia. Because Vancouver Island is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Straits of Georgia the climate is mild year round and the garden can bloom year round. Victoria is located South of the Canadian -US border and is quite close to Seattle, Washington.</div>
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View of the Sunken Garden from above.</div>
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Stairs in the middle of the Sunken Garden.</div>
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Water Lilies by Butchart Gardens.</div>
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The many stages of the water fountain.</div>
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We can only hope these Dragon Flies are not real. Who's that eating ice cream? Busted. Run.</div>
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People- don't know any of them but never could take a picture without people.</div>
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Make a Wish. Wish I had a place to sit down.</div>
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A view through the trees to the boat dock on Brentwood bay below.</div>
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This is a real Dragon Fly sitting on a sprinkler head.</div>
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Butchart Cove Lookout for the family's personal use.</div>
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Later there will be pictures and story of a Scottish Castle circa 1860 located on the tallest hill in Victoria. </div>
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One morning I was at the Natural History Museum in downtown Victoria.</div>
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Today I spent a few hours in the Coeur d' Alene library in Idaho the day before I head to Bear Tooth Pass near Yellowstone National Park in Montana. I will be there tomorrow.</div>
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Victoria, the capitol of British Columbia is located on Vancouver Island. </div>
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The only way to take the Roadtrek to Vancouver Island was by ferry. </div>
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I drove the short 35 miles to the city of Vancouver, BC. </div>
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Vancouver, BC.is the city located to the East of Victoria.</div>
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The Fairmont Empress Hotel located in Victoria on the harbor. </div>
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Afternoon tea also called "high tea" has been a custom since 1807.</div>
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Cucumber sandwich with saffron.<br />
Smoked salmon & herb cream cheese pinwheel.<br />
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Dessert had five items offered for all those having lunch at our table.<br />
That would be me. The advantages to traveling solo.<br />
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Scenes from the drive North to Denali National Park.</div>
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Denali National park is the size of the state of Vermont.</div>
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I try to imagine what Winter must look like with snow deep.</div>
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I have been looking at the snow capped Denali mountain for last 150 miles as I drive North.</div>
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Monday, June 17th, I drove North to Denali National Park from Anchorage about 250 miles.<br />
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Next week I camp at the Techlanika River site about 35miles into Denali. This camp site is the same area the book " Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer was written about. Chris McCandless, the young college grad who went to Alaska to show he could live a minimalist life in the back woods. Four months later his body was found by a hunter. Recently there were three German college students who went to the same area and were trapped in the abandoned structure Chris McCandless had died in. Luckily they were found and rescued.<br />
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When I hike next week into the backwoods of Denali I will not be looking for the structure Chris McCandless was found. I will be enjoying the immense scenery and looking for grizzly bears that could be a problem.<br />
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I will be going to Fairbanks to be at the Midnight Sun celebration. I hear it has developed into a week long party with druids who dress up in costume. Hopefully not like 200BC druids and there will not be any human sacrifices or cannibalism.<br />
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The real reason to come to Alaska has been to see the untouched beauty of the vast landscape. The wildlife that is so close it is impossible to not see moose, black bear and elk out especially in the morning and early evening. I have seen grizzly bears usually at higher mountain trails, although I saw three grizzly bear along roadside one morning from 15 feet away. With the sun up almost 24 hours a day it is easy to see what is around the area. At this moment it is 1 am and the sun is as bright as 11 am in the morning and it will be this way for the next week until after June 21st when the days will slowly shorten for Winter. <br />
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On a very hot 93 degree June 19th, an adult bull moose was up to his ears in the cool river. </div>
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This is a juvenile grizzly bear from the Kenai Peninsula last week. Foggy last weekend, Homer, AK.<br />
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Kachemak Bay, Homer, AK on Kenai Peninsula. Foggy at 1:00 in the afternoon.<br />
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The Napa store confirmed I needed a $800 electric motor replaced to make the wiper work again. They had no parts in stock and they only get deliveries once a week. It would be a week before parts are available. Now I was desperate so I tried the local salvage yard. My father would be proud of me digging up my used part to fix my own vehicle. I still remember being scolded because I bought a new part as a teenager repairing the family car. I wasn't real happy about not only having to fix my own vehicle but having to cannibalize used car parts that are greasy, dirty and remember freezing cold to fix my own car. So I find the local junk yard and when I told the junkyard guy I needed a 2005 Chevy wiper motor I was told "Mister nobody here drives a car that new." Again, I would drive another day without my driver side wiper working.</div>
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I was looking forward to being home to the USA. It had been almost a month without familiar use of English. Tired of litres of gas, paying with Loonies, Toonies and driving 110 km/hr and feel like I'm standing still. Don't get me wrong the Canadian people were very nice. But I'm used to services and parts being available, give me some US consumerism any day. One evening I had a long talk with a gentleman from British Columbia and he said the Canadian's really like to come to the US to shop, buy gas and have our heath care system. They have a carbon tax that has made gas very expensive and all products delivered to stores are given a carbon tax. The bad part is the carbon tax money goes to the general fund and the government wastes the money. The national health care in Canada is so poor that people who can afford to travel leave to have treatment but a health care tax is added to all products making everything more expensive. He is worried he will have no place for health care when Obamacare is the required health care standard.</div>
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I drove to the first town in Alaska, Tok. As many isolated towns are they are self-sufficient and have people within their town, who make it possible to survive the long Winter without outside help. And they have a Napa store, I was sure the part would be there waiting for me. I asked the clerk for the part, told him my problem and he said "You don't need no part. If one wiper is working and the other is not, there is only one motor for two wiper blades". "Just tighten the nut on the blade that won't move" He showed me the nut, I took out my socket set and tightened the nut. It works, no $800 charge and only took three turns of the nut. This made my day.</div>
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Things got better from the minute I crossed into the US. Next was the gas I bought, only $4.00 per gallon. Yes, higher than back home but still good news to me, better than $7.50/gallon in Canada. The best part was the offer of a free car wash with a fill. A fill was considered 25 gallons. With an RV I could get a free car wash every day. It was a do it yourself pressure washer car wash but unlimited water and a bucket with soap and a long handled brush no charge. After muddy gravel roads with pot holes in the Yukon and log trucks coming head on, the Roadtrek looked more like a 20 foot long Tootsie Roll than an RV. I cleaned up my language of what my RV really looked like. After the car wash I needed a good place to camp. Drove a ways down the road and saw a big sign $10 Boondocking, Free Shower included. I am really beginning to like this town of Tok, Alaska. First they save me $800 on repair, then a free car wash with low cost gas and a free shower when boondocking for only $10.00. What else could happen? Well I found out. In the town square they have a 15 foot tall glass box with a stuffed moose inside. My kinda people.</div>
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(2) Remote campsites can charge whatever they want for services because the closest services are a 4 hour drive away. Warning to self: Don't let your gas tank get less than half empty or you will be vulnerable to the high cost of gas in the mountains. Or worse, no services and run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. While sitting in the lobby of the large log cabin of The Lodge using the WiFi to write my blog I heard repeated customer complaints about the cost of gas, meals and even using the shower. The gas in Canada is measured in litres. There are 3.8 litres of gas in a gallon. The Roadtrek RV has a 31 gallon tank, so that is 118 litres. I usually stop for gas at half empty I will need approximately 60 litres at $1.39 per litre that is $84.00 dollars for half a tank. In the good old USA I could fill my entire tank for between $86 - $100. At the Lodge the Swiss- German owner of the Lodge has a customer who has no choice but to pay more for gas. The price is not marked at pump and the credit card is left with the front desk. The cost of gas at the lodge is $2.39 per litre or $143 for half a tank of gas. Customers were surprised by the price and I heard many complaints while sitting in lobby. Imagine paying almost $300 to fill your tank of gas. What people didn't know until they left is that just down the road two miles is an old place with gas pump for a dollar less per litre. Luckily, I had filled my tank full only two hours earlier before arriving at the Lodge and the Roadtrek is somewhat gas efficient. I still had 200 miles of gas left before I left the Lodge that morning.</div>
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(3) Remote mountain villages do not have auto repair services or even part stores to do it yourself. The rough roads had caused my one wiper blade to stop working. Duct tape to the rescue! Visibility on a winding mountain road is essential. Canada didn't spend any money on guard rails on steep 2,000 to 3,000 foot drop offs. Many winding roads were above the tall pine tree tops. I imagined falling thru the trees to my demise as my windows were opaque from the heavy rain. On a more pleasant thought, the Lodge is a nice place to stay and I decided to stay three days to rest, do my laundry, enjoy a long hot shower and work on my blog. Think again. The shower costs $1.00 for 4 minutes of shower time. Desperation makes one do desperate things. It was the best $5.00 I had spent on my trip. Still it is irritating to stop in middle of shower to keep feeding the meter.</div>
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In the morning I would walk down by the waters edge and watch the Mountain Goats and their babies walk the sheer rock edges in the morning sun. Their white coats and four long legs would show up well against the contrast of the dark rock ledges and dark bark of pine trees.</div>
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The metal boat was similar to my Grandpa's boat but much nicer.</div>
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In the world of clamorous cities and ubiquitous social media, mountain scenes</div>
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The glacial waters have a turquoise color, reminding me of the beautiful Traverse Bay, Michigan.<br />
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Mile Zero of Alaska Highway.<br />
It will still be several days before crossing customs check at Alaskan US border.<br />
Our Roadtrek group has split to see different things in area.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-199099206257746632013-06-11T07:31:00.002-07:002013-06-11T07:31:54.944-07:00Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada<br />
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Banff is named after Banffshire, Scotland the birthplace of the first settlers who built the Canadian Pacific Railroad through the Canadian Rockie mountains. Banff has an elevation of 4,537 ft making it the highest town in the rockies.<br />
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The Trans-Canadian Glacial Icefields Parkway that leads to Jasper, Alberta backwoods campgrounds.<br />
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On June 3rd I started on the 214 mile Glacier Ice Field Parkway drive to the backwoods of Jasper, Alberta. I noticed the 41 degree temperature was dropping to 38 then to 36 degrees as I drove up the mountain.<br />
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Icey Glacier Lake along the Icefield Highway. This scene looks very much like January not June.<br />
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Whistler's backwoods campground Jasper, Alberta, Canada</div>
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This campsite is only a few miles West from Ketchikan, Alaska.</div>
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At sunset on first night of camping there was an animal that ran by my window at about 40 mph.</div>
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The animal was an Elk calf and it's mother running from a predator in the woods .</div>
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Glacier National Park has spectacular views that will take your breath away. So will the thousand foot drop offs where Logan's pass traverses the park from East to West.<br />
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Glacier National Park has the St Mary's River, the St Mary's Falls and is located in the town of St Mary.<br />
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Father DeSmet, a Catholic priest, was caught in a heavy snow storm coming off the Divide on the Old Beaverslide trail. When the stormed cleared, the first thing he saw was the face of St Mary. Today many people use the face of St Mary as a landmark to help guide them safely off the mountain.<br />
The face of St Mary appears in the rocks of Single Shot Mountain.<br />
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The road into Glacier National Park is called Going-To-The-Sun Road because of the height of the road.<br />
I camped at the Rising Sun campsite, a primitive campsite meaning no water or electric to hook up to and back in the woods with all the wildlife.<br />
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The view I had in the morning from my campsite at Rising Sun CG. The rising moon is in the sky.</div>
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In the morning a resident black bear met me on the trail. The Park Ranger told me the Rising Sun CG is on the bear walk path to the lake and creek below. I decided to find some other campers to share the bears with and moved to an area with electric and water. <br />
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The are sheep are so friendly I believe if I opened my door to feed it, it would be in the RV.</div>
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This blog is under construction until I can find a strong WiFi signal to complete the job. Moving to Jasper Alberta, Canada tomorrow maybe I can find better WiFi.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-78323522509209392752013-06-02T09:07:00.004-07:002013-06-02T09:07:49.289-07:00Great Falls, Montana - Lewis and Clark Trail<br />
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Great Falls, Montana was to be a place to rest up for a while from the long trek from coastal Carolina.<br />
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First I stopped for some free coffee at a Rest Stop along the highway just Southeast of Great Falls. The guy working at the Rest Stop was a Good Sam camper himself and from the area. He told me of the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center and the Giant Spring nearby where huge trout could be found in a circular flow of fresh underground water bubbling up. This made me curious, no rest for the weary.<br />
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One thing lead to another I had found the great falls that Great Falls is named after.</div>
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It was a beautiful day for a walk along the Missouri River. There I saw a group of boys catching trout from the spring creek coming off the Missouri River and they couldn't get the hook out of the fishes mouth. Who better to ask but a dentist with time on his hands. Dentist to the rescue, fish was saved, boys were happy. Time now to wash my fishy hands.<br />
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This is a smaller falls along the Missouri River.<br />
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The migration of the Swallows from Capistrano migrate through Great Falls. Some have become residents for the Spring and Summer months.<br />
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This Blog is under construction . WiFi is very hard to find in the mountains since satellite is only way to get WiFi, I have been at Tim Horton's Coffee shop for several mornings now and have little done for the time. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-14195138725139083822013-06-01T09:06:00.000-07:002013-06-01T09:06:09.952-07:00Devils Tower National Monument<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At 5:30 am I hiked to the top of the trail around Devils Tower. It was 45 degrees and very still, the only sound was the wind whistling through the Ponderosa Pine trees. The valley below has a river run through where I camped for the night. The camping was primitive but very peaceful. Just as the entire park is. <br />
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Devils Tower from the start of the hike to top of trail.<br />
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The Northern Plains Indians have a legend that the great bear from the sky has made the vertical scratch marks on the Devils Tower.<br />
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There are sacred "Prayer Ribbons" left by the Northern Plains Indians.<br />
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Devils Tower is made of Igneous rock (previously molten) from a volcano that had sedimentary rock and soil around the cone of volcano. Over the years the sedimentary rock and soil eroded away leaving the Tower. The scratch lines are due to the cubic structure of the rock eroding away. In other areas of Wyoming and Montana can be seen smaller "towers" of rock of similar structure.<br />
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View while driving into Devils Tower Monument Park<br />
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At the entrance to the park are hundreds of Prairie Dogs and their mounds.<br />
While walking across the Prairie Dog town there was an alarm sounded. The little doggies popping their heads up to look and then ducked back down into their holes. Now I know how "Wack a Mole" was thought of as a game. Sorry little doggies.<br />
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Now I am off to Billings, Montana as an intermediate stop on the way to Great Falls, Montana.<br />
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Billings has a Rim View of their city as Billings is surrounded by mountains and high ridges on two sides.<br />
When I left for Great Falls, Montana the next morning at 4:00 am the city was all lit up very bright. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-62842560086801630042013-05-24T07:47:00.000-07:002013-05-24T07:47:31.619-07:00Rapid City - Keystone & Mt Rushmore<br />
Rapid City has been an interesting place to visit. After living on the Great Plains of Nebraska you would have thought that in the five short years that I have been away I wouldn't forget how the wind can blow and weather can change without any warning.<br />
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For the last two and one half days I have been living in my Roadtrek at Cabela's RV parking area.<br />
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Cabela's conveniently located off I-90 at exit 61 is close to all the National Parks and services needed.<br />
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There has been an observation made of the people I see in Rapid City and especially the hill country known as the Badlands of South Dakota. Is it me or are the men wanting to look like Buffalo Bill Cody?<br />
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In the Badlands of South Dakota the men wear their hair long and beards to match.</div>
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Some of the women, not all of them mind you, are more likely to have a horse named Maybelline than to have Maybelline in their purse. </div>
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Mt Rushmore has been an interesting drive up into the hill country with the wind gusting up to 50 mph.<br />
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The foothills of Mt Rushmore</div>
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Mt Rushmore features 60 foot sculptures of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln.</div>
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The carved granite face of Mt Rushmore is near Keystone, a village just below the monument.</div>
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Gutzon Borglum is the sculptor who dedicated his life to Mt Rushmore.</div>
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The sculpting began in 1927 and was completed between 1934 and 1939.</div>
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Another prominent feature of Mt Rushmore are the 1,000 stairs there are to climb to the top.</div>
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Rapid City has been an interesting place to visit but my next stop is Devil's Tower National Park Wyoming.</div>
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Preparing for the trip to Alaska has been a three month long process of anticipating what will be needed when off the grid camping in the backwoods. This brings up the question "Why do we travel"?<br />
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Before leaving on a long road trip restlessness begins to set in. Anticipating the road away that is broad, straight and sweet, the desire to travel is good and sufficient reason for going.<br />
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Planning a trip in time and space, choosing a direction and destination is a work of joy. At last I must implement the journey, how to get there, what to take and how long to stay.<br />
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Once the journey is designed, equipped and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, an exploration is an entity, different from all other journeys. Each journey is unique into itself, no two are alike. There is an anticipation of what a journey will be. Traveling is a companion into itself.<br />
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I have learned while traveling that we do not take a trip: a trip takes us. Like marriage, the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.<br />
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May 15th starts an eleven week trip beginning at coastal Carolina in the mid-Atlantic passing thru the Midwest to Great Falls, Montana and entering the Canadian Rockies at Banff, AB. On to Alaska in the third week of travel in Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon Canada. While in Alaska there will be a myriad of stops along the way, mostly boondocking in the backwoods and small town parks. A group of 14 Roadtrek RVs will be in the area that our "Walkabout" is registered . We have all shared our contact information and will gather together ocassionally at designated locales.<br />
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Later in July begins a southbound 2,000 mile inside passage ferry boat trip with the Roadtrek securely stowed in the lower level of the Columbia, a 200+ foot ferry. The week long cruise will provide needed rest from driving and living in a small motorhome. The Columbia provides a private stateroom to live in with port of call each day to disembark in villages along the way. At weeks end is the destination of Bellingham, Washington where I will immediately re-enter British Columbia, Vancouver for a couple of weeks.<br />
The island of Vancouver has the capitol of BC in Victoria with Butchart Gardens and the Fairmont Empress Hotel with the British custom of high tea in the afternoon along the promenade in Stanley Park.<br />
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Vancouver Island offers a nice variety of Provincial Parks to boondock.<br />
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By late July I will begin the long trek back to the East coast but stopping along the way in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming until I arrive home in August.<br />
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First day of travel was from North Carolina to Louisville, Kentucky where we stayed at the Cabella's for the night.<br />
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The second day of travel was to Nebraska where we found ourselves in a severe thunderstorm with tornadoes in the three state area. After staying at a family farm with Roadtrek securely put away from harm in a quonset and us in the basement waiting out the storm. At least many hands of cards were played and family time was caught up.<br />
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Other stops on the way to Alaska will be Rapid City, SD where Cabella's offers a good place to boondock for the night then on to Devil's Tower Wyoming, Great Falls, MT and Alberta, Canada.<br />
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Next week will be photos from Custer State Park, SD, Devil's Tower National Park, WY and Glacier National Park in Montana before entering Canada.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">January 12, 2013</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Quartzsite, Arizona</span></b><br />
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RV Rally of 150,000, made of small groups known as the "Tribe".<br />
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Desert Camping on Bureau of Land management land. Temperatures were down in the 30's at night. Most people came to the desert expecting warmer temperatures.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">January 25, 2013</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Las Vegas, Nevada</span></b><br />
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Time to recover some of my losses. Maybe not. It is not only cold outside but cards were cold inside.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">January 27th, 2013</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mohave Desert, Tehachapi, California</span></b><br />
The highway between Las Vegas and Tehachapi, California looks all the same, five hours of sand and very little else.<br />
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Tehachapi, the land of the Wind Mill farms. Thousands of wind mills as far as the eye could see. Watts Up with that?<br />
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Many of the homes on top of the mountain are off the grid so private solar and wind mills used.<br />
Visiting my brother and his wife in Bear Valley Springs, California on top of a mountain for a week. There were snow banks outside my door of the camper. The humidity was 5% or less everyday.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>February 3, 2013</b></span><br />
Time to go home to coastal Carolina. It is a long way home, 2,785 miles. <br />
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Arrived in Savannah, Ga early afternoon. Savannah has an old South look and feel with the historic antebellum homes. The drive downtown has oak trees with Spanish moss hanging from trees.<br />
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This is Wormsloe St in historic downtown Savannah. <br />
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Cathedral of St John the Baptist is the most popular visitor spot in Savannah. Dash Cam photo.<br />
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Tybee Island is just Southeast of downtown Savannah and since Paula Deen's restaurant was filming a TV production, I chose to go to Uncle Bubba's (Paula's brother) that has similar menu .</div>
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Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum- garden side entrance.<br />
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Upon arrival visitors step into the awesome expanse of the rotunda, with it's soaring ceiling.<br />
The imposing bronze statues with flags of all Bomber Groups of Mighty Eighth Air Force on display <br />
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The B-17 "Flying Fortress" and the B-24 are exhibited with many of the Bomber Group's personal clothing and gear on display.<br />
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TSgt Matthew P. Gewain, Jr., Flight Engineer and Top Turret Gunner<br />
Group/Squadron: 453rd Bomb Group, 732nd Bomb Squadron, 389th BG and 265th BS. AAF 114<br />
Flew 26 lead crew missions. Shot down twice to forced landings in Belgium.<br />
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December 28, 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne Capt Love and his crew (including Matt Gewain) lead the entire 8th Air Force with 2,300 B-24 bombers of the 453rd BG on a mission to Germany.<br />
As a typical mission, 700 planes ( 7,000 crew) were lost in the battle. Presidential Unit Citation was awarded to Captain Love and his crew.<br />
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Two Ibis feeding along a pool of water in Savannah Wildlife Refuge<br />
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A bashful Heron did not want his picture taken.<br />
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Dash Cam in the motorhome showing a horse and wagon giving tours.<br />
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Wisteria Vines in full bloom late November in downtown Savannah. Ga.<br />
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This concludes my three days of touring Savannah, Ga. Now I have a six hour drive home.<br />
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Next- January 2013 Quartsite, Arizona <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540461905220476596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424786030717304814.post-41881937754905583482012-11-20T10:01:00.000-08:002013-01-11T03:52:18.219-08:00Day 1 Atlantic Coast Tour- Friday November 2nd - Charleston, SCArrived in Charleston, SC (about a four hour drive) staying at James Island County RVPark in Charleston, SC. A very nice 700 acre park used by residents of the city for ball games, boating and family get togethers. 84 degrees Sunny and little wind.<br />
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First stop, downtown Charleston to see waterfront and layout of the city.<br />
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In Charleston, what I would call a porch is called a Piazza, looks like a porch to me.<br />
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Next stop was the Magnolia Plantation with it's Natural landscape and bridges.<br />
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Beautiful waterscapes with all of natures beauty.. including ........<br />
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Alligator, 15 foot long, sunning itself along the path we walk on. We were six feet away from him. <br />
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Next we went downtown to the French Quarters district of Charleston to have a nice lunch.</div>
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We walked on the Battery along Ashley River overlooking Fort Sumter in the distance.<br />
Many battles have been fought here from Revolutionary War to Civil War and even German submarines have been seen here during WWII in the 1940's.<br />
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In Battery Park, Charleston, overlooking Fort Sumter, a statue to Confederate Defenders<br />
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William Moultrie was a general in Civil War and later 35th governor of South Carolina.<br />
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Three days in Charleston and I drove South to Kissimmee, Florida for the Roadtrek Rally.<br />
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