15/12/12 (Saturday) We caught a taxi this morning to Union Station ready for our train ride to New York City. When we checked in we found out that checked baggage goes on a later train so we had to take our bags on the train with us. Luckily we managed to get our bags into the oversized shelves at the end of the carriage (they only have room for 3 bags). We had a great train ride. There were a family from Logan in our carriage and 2 of their boys sat in th...

12/12/12 (Wednesday) Luckily the plane wasn't full so Danielle and I both had a row of 3 seats to ourselves so managed to spread out and sleep all the way to Washington DC. We arrived on time at 5.45am and the city looked lovely coming in when it was still dark. It doesn't get light here until around 7.30am! It was 30oF or -1.1oC when we landed. Yep! It was a bit chlly. Luckily we have nice warm jackets!!!!!!! We had a nice coffee at Starbucks at the ai...

11/12/12 (Tuesday) We got up this morning and had breakfast and showers before finishing to pack our backs and weigh them - just made it!!!!!!! We had to leave the RV park by 11am so went up to Costco and wasted a couple of hours looking around then had lunch before taking Matilda over to the storage yard to leave her there while we head over to the east coast. It took ages there by the time we parked her and then went through all the paperwork. We did les...

09/12/12 (Sunday) This morning Ken took us to take our hire car back to the Phoenix Airport and then we went and picked up the motorhome. I very bravely drove back to Ken & Chris's house and Danielle and I loaded our gear onboard before setting off on our drive to Lake Havasu to visit Tom who is a friend of Paul & Sandy's who we met in Teacapan, Mexico last visit. He is from Wabasha in Minnesota and has rented Ken & Chris's 5th wheel for the wint...

08/12/12 (Saturday) This morning we headed up to Phoenix and did a return trip on the Metro Light Rail from One end to the other. Ken & Chris had never done the trip before so they also saw things that they didn't know where they were so intend to use the system a bit more in the future. It's only $3.50 for an all day pass and it takes just over an hour to get from one side to the other. We certainly saw some characters on the train also. There are so...