Category: 2024 Travels
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PA to MA
Our first day of travel began like so many others: A trip to the Municipal trash facility so we didn’t have garbage sitting in the trash can for 6 weeks: Parking our two cars at the end of the driveway so our lawn service could get their mowers into the back yard; and ensuring the…
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Sweet Start to Summer
Turns out that taking two quick trips in May was beneficial in so many ways. As mentioned in our last post, two of our favorite beach communities include the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Cape May, New Jersey. The purpose of traveling to these locales was to ensure the rig was ready for the…
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Time to Pack
We are one week away from the first of two short “shake-down” trips in May. We decided to take a couple shorter trips in May to 1) ensure we’re prepared for longer trips this summer, i.e., did we remember everything?! (thus, “shake-down”), 2) settle into our new rig (we only had a month in the…
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Murals: Walls that tell a story
(First published February 2-24, Updated July 2025) One of the under appreciated joys of traveling by car or RV is the ability to take a detour off the highway and visit small towns along the route. While scrolling through our Photos Library we discovered that we had captured images of a number of murals in…
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A few improvements before the start of the 2024 travel season
The temperatures have started to climb on the East Coast and that’s when the realization hit home that “Travel Season” is just a few months away. We best get started on all the improvements we contemplated doing when we purchased the Plateau XLTS last October so we will be ready for our first trip in…
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Signs along the way…
During our travels we’ve come across quite a few street and traffic signs that we don’t see at home in southeastern Pennsylvania. We’ve had fun taking these photos and assembling them here for you to see. We’ll keep adding to this post as we encounter new, interesting and unusual signs. Animals Trains and trolleys Amusing…
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Almost lost our AC
One new aspect to RV travel is determining if we can fit into parking spaces and under bridges. Our Rig is almost 23 feet long and we carry bikes on the back. Our height is only 10 feet. Many RVs are taller than 10 feet. Bridge heights are clearly marked. You will not run into…