Oct 2013 through April 2014
After 15,000 miles 21 states and 5 Canadian Provinces we
arrived in our winter home in Apache Junction, AZ. It was a much warmer winter
this year compared to last year. through Peggy’s Mom flew down and spent the
entire winter and stayed in our brand New 5th wheel as we resided in
our Park Model. Enjoyed time by the pool, park parties, geocaching adventures
and events. Randy had some health issues and had to have a Carotid Endocardia
done just about 2 weeks before we left for the summer.
We hit the road on April 8th with mother in law
in tow as we are taking her back home to Yakima area along with Coee her cute
little Shitzu. Our first stop was Las Vegas where we spent 2 days, left there
$600 richer.
We decided to follow the Extraterrestrial Highway to pick up some alien geocaches and yes we stopped in Rachel NV near Area 51 and the Little Al’e’inn on our way to Tonopah, NV where we spent one night in a dirt parking lot with several other RV’s. There is a lack of RV parks in this little town or at least ones I would want to stay at. We had dinner and gambled a bit in a small restaurant next to our boondocking space for the night. Decided I would donate to the local economy and lost about $150.00.
Next morning we drove on to Reno, NV where we stayed at a nice KOA campground about 6 miles from downtown. We went into town after we setup and it just happened to be the Reno Marathon so we watched a few people cross the finish line and then in to eat and donate some more to the economy.
We decided to follow the Extraterrestrial Highway to pick up some alien geocaches and yes we stopped in Rachel NV near Area 51 and the Little Al’e’inn on our way to Tonopah, NV where we spent one night in a dirt parking lot with several other RV’s. There is a lack of RV parks in this little town or at least ones I would want to stay at. We had dinner and gambled a bit in a small restaurant next to our boondocking space for the night. Decided I would donate to the local economy and lost about $150.00.
Next morning we drove on to Reno, NV where we stayed at a nice KOA campground about 6 miles from downtown. We went into town after we setup and it just happened to be the Reno Marathon so we watched a few people cross the finish line and then in to eat and donate some more to the economy.
We took off from Reno and went up through Susanville, CA up
through Klamath Falls, OR then onto La Pine Oregon where we spent the night.
Next morning we hit the road and actually drove the rest of the way to Cowiche,
WA to my mother-in-law's place. Nice that she has full hookups. We spent 3 weeks
at her place so we could clean, organize and get her place ready for sale and
as it turns out she had an offer on her place just 2 days before Peggy and I
left to start our 2014 summer time journey
to Alaska.