RV travels around the USA
The featured image was taken at our DVPC church at sunset. We are staying at the Fort Chiswell RV Park, near our former home town of Christiansburg, VA for a month before getting back on the road. There are dentist appointments, RV work, a complete sort through all of our stuff, a new car to buy, family and friends to see, and a wedding to attend. We have accomplished much at about the halfway point, but still more to do! Continue reading “Fort Chiswell, Week #2”
One of the planned upgrades to our 5th wheel RV is to change out the old RV refrigerator and replace it with a residential model. We found a good RV shop near Radford Virginia, close to our old home town. So with a little advance planning, buying the new refrigerator and inverter, and some labor costs, we will have the upgrade completed. Continue reading “Refrigerator Upgrade”
We have been extremely fortunate so far from the Hurricane Florence weather impact. The rain was a constant warm mist type rain about all day on Saturday here at the Fort Chiswell RV Park. Then some on and off slightly harder rain overnight, but no flooding at our location. Today, (Sunday), it has been a little breezy with a very light mist. We keep waiting for the worst of it! Continue reading “Ft. Chiswell Virginia; Hurricane Hideout”
Yesterday was a sunny and mostly clear day. Although the winds have picked up a bit. This weather was due to a high pressure cell located in southwest Virginia. That will all change by later on today as the Hurricane Florence approaches. The calm before the storm… Continue reading “Hurricane Status – Friday 9/14”
It has been a crazy last week! I’ll try to provide an update here, although we did nothing too exciting except to dodge major storms. We are currently at an RV shop awaiting some upgrades and then decide where to go to escape Hurricane Florence! Continue reading “Back in Virginia; Watching for Hurricane Florence”
Living in Virginia, we have been to Williamsburg a couple of times before and always enjoy returning. So, we added this delightful stop to our 2018 itinerary for a one week stay. In addition to strolling through all of the old Colonial Williamsburg, we also were able to meet up with some new friends that we met in Florida, Sue and Calvin. We had a great time exploring this town with them! Continue reading “Williamsburg, VA; A Very Colonial Experience”
We had reserved a great campsite at Claytor Lake State Park that is near to our old home town of Christiansburg, Virginia. We booked this site for the maximum time of two weeks to allow us time to complete all of our annual health checkups plus some vehicle maintenance.
This leg of our travels was about 400 miles over two days of driving. This is a bit longer than we really like to drive, but needed to get to our Virginia location for some appointments.
We also had an unexpected brake failure with the 5th wheel coach while traveling in the steep mountains from the Cincinnati area to a one night stopover in Huntington, West Virginia! Yikes!!! Continue reading “Southwest Virginia; Family, Friends, Many Appointments, and a Brake Failure! Yikes!”
Tigger, our 18 year old gray tabby cat, died this last week while we were back in our home area of Virginia. He was quite old and frail and had a bad heart condition. We knew that he would not last too much longer, but seemed to be enjoying his cat’s life. Up until about his last 4 or 5 days.
After our trip to the RV dealer for some warranty work, we drove about 100 miles to the north east to the perfect rural spot to enjoy some peace and quiet, hiking, and some history all thrown in – James River State Park. The access road into the park is longish and is basically a single lane. It is fine for our big rig until you meet another vehicle coming the other way and they have to drive off onto the convenient grassy area. The park did have some large heavily wooded campsites with huge separation between campers. Continue reading “James River State Park & Those Pesky Low Clearances”
It has been awhile since our last post, so trying to get caught back up now. We have been so busy with sightseeing and activities that we have rarely had any significant downtime or else limited connectivity. We have now visited 7 states plus D.C. and driven about 3,500 miles. Continue reading “Back To Virginia for a Short Visit”