After 57 days on the road in a unit smaller than our master bath, it is good to be home. We had a pile of mail waiting for us mostly magazines and solicitations. We traveled almost 9,100 miles, visited 19 National Parks and numerous National Monuments. We survived a few meltdowns and were fortunate we didn't have any disastrous outcomes. Believe me, we were our own worse enemies, but someone was looking out for us. We saw America on the cusp of change and was e...

We were ready to go at 9am. We were only about 15 miles from the Ash Mountain entrance to Sequoia National Park. We stopped at the Foothills Visitor Center located just inside the park. This was a small facility just basically to answer questions. We were back on the road. The road through Sequoia wound its way up to an elevation of approximately 6500 feet elevation where the Giant Sequoias thrive. We stopped at the Giant Forest Museum and were fortunate t...

We got to sleep in today. The tires for Testie were scheduled to arrive at 9am. Walt received the call around 9:15am that the tires arrived and to bring Testie to the shop. We waited at the park until we got the call from Barb that they were ready to be picked up to go to breakfast. Walt thought it would only take John, the mechanic, an hour to replace all four tires. We picked up the Skinners from the Tire Shack and headed to the Red Rooster Café, o...

We are on our final leg for home. We left Beatty Nevada bound for the Lake Isabella/Kern River KOA in Weldon CA at 8:00am, but first things first. We needed propane. We learned our lesson and thought it best to fill our propane tank at two lights. Done. Walt noticed that his left rear tire on his trailer was low. We stopped at a "Pay for Air" station and filled the tires that needed air. Done. We topped off our gas and we were ready to hit the road. We dec...

Happy Halloween! I woke up earlier than usual and it was still dark outside. Without glasses, I thought I set the microwave to 10 sec to warm up a piece of cinnamon toast…I guess I inadvertently set it for 1 min. Billowing smoke was coming out of the microwave. The smoke detector was going crazy…..oops. FUBAR for me. We got the smoke cleared out, but there was still a lingering smell of smoke that , I am sure, we will continue to smell for awhile. We ...