Eureka!!

Well we finally did it. For the last 4-5 months have been following a wonderful used 2005 King Ranch F-350 Ford truck with a 2006 Host 11 1/2' dual slide Yellowstone camper offered originally on Ebay. The owner pulled it off Ebay and I talked to them back in June. Called back several weeks ago and it was still available; the owner hadn't been real agressive in selling it.

We had originally thought we'd buy a Class A RV of about 35', but after seeing the roominess and amenities of truck campers with slide out sides, we were sold. You get to a camping site and remove the campers and now have the convenience of using the truck without the encumbrance of the camper. Exactly what we wanted and the 2005 truck only had 5500 miles on it !!! Our good friend in Clearwater drove over last week to inspect it with his son. Their report was glowing. Long story short, I called and negotiated a good and fair price.

Jan and I will fly down to Tampa Thanksgiving week and drive it back to the Vineyard. Actually we'll stop over in Philadelphia to have T-Day with our 90 and 92 year old Moms, and my sister Janet and brother-in-law Tom. This is a huge step toward our dream.......much sooner than I thought just 2 weeks ago.



Here's some pictures.

Planning Stages

Janice and I are, 57 and 63 years young, living on Martha's Vineyard and planning the next stage of our lives together. This is just the first step by starting this blog so we can document our travels and stay in touch with our kids, Johanna and Donald, other family and friends. We've traveled extensively around the world and realized there is so much to the USA, the greatest country on the Earth, that we hadn't seen. The Grand Canyon, Old Faithful, Napa Valley and San Francisco, Alaska and so many fabulous National Parks. Not to mention South of the Border.

Our plan is to take off sometime around September 2011 for the JW Retirement Celebration Tour in a large and well-outfitted, self-sustainable truck camper to travel North America, Mexico and hopefully Central America. How long? I'm saying 6-12 months. Janice is not saying much to this question at this point. Hoping to buy our rig in the next 6 months to gain experience in RVing and boondocking.

We'll probably post occasionally to relate our progress and even our lives on this special island.