Sunday, August 11, 2019

Wrap Up

Our Hop On Hop Off Tour of America

The map helped us with planning--the different colored dots are the various routes we took 

  Possible Book Titles
  • Travels with Terry
  • Closing out the puzzle--What if everyday was Saturday
  • I have learned more the first 4 years of retirement than 4 years of college 
 
Don't be that person:
  • Stay more than 1 night at a commercial freebie (Walmart, Pilot, etc.)
  • Start lecturing people on what you have seen and what they HAVE to see
  • Run the generator after midnight
  • Stink up the place with faulty holding tank management
  • Be in a hurry  
5 best meals:
  • The Thompson's --Lobster in Maine
  • Bibiji's--Indian food--Santa Barbara
  • 411--McMinnville, Or
  • Hamilton's - Washington DC
  • Martha's --Yuma, AZ--Date shake
 Tips of travel: 
  • You can take our own bed, toilet, kitchen, wardrobe (had to learn to manage the TV reception, generator, water, holding tanks)
  • Set your own budget
  • Set your own pace
  • We plan on driving no more than 4-5 hours a day. It always takes longer than the maps say and if you get in early all the better--don't be in a hurry, enjoy the scenery
  • Talk to everyone that will talk back
  • Stay flexible 
Places to stay:  
  RV parks, Walmart, Pilot, BLM, Rest Areas, most Casino's, Fairgrounds --haven't stayed but others have--Cracker Barrell, Pro Bass, Cabela (all these call first).
 
Useful devices:
  Garmin for RV, phone, paper maps, kindle, jet pack, camera, sat TV, antenna, DVD player, computer and printer
 
Useful Traveling Apps:
  Park Advisor (with a little help from Compendium, Allstays and The Dyrt), Weather/Radar/Wind Alert, Yelp, Safari/IE/Firefox, Maps(various), I-Heart Radio
 
Important to us :
  Warm in winter, Cool in summer, Tennessee for fall, spring (kids birthdays), Christmas at home, Tennessee Football and Basketball, NASCAR
 
Places we liked to plan for:
  Presidential Libraries (get a pass), National Parks (be sure to buy a park pass), NFL Stadiums. Not necessarily our bag but other things people did: State Capitols, Cemeteries, Prisons, Shopping, Beach--Know that every town seems to have a museum--some are great others are awful.

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