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Big Blue is what we affectinately call our 42-foot Fleetwood Excursion, which my husband had to have because of the beautiful Pacific Blue coloring scheme. It doesn't hurt that we are also avid Penn State fans and that my husband comments that he "bleeds blue and white." Every fall you can find us up at the Bellefonte KOA (a wonderful place) for the whole football season. Never want to be any place else!The rest of the year, our address happens to be wherever we decide to park Big Blue for the night, the week, or the month. My husband is still working. He telecommutes out of the RV. However, he is on call and must be able to "report" for meetings in person within a 24-hour time frame, which restricts greatly the distance from his office in Virginia Beach, Va., that we can travel. I am a retired CPA. After my third diagnosis of cancer, we decided to push our "dream" of seeing the USA via a motorhome ahead of our original plans. We know now how precious each and every day is that we are blessed with and want to build memories to share when we reach that point where traveling is not in our best interests. We scoured RV shows for three years and knew what we were looking for. I finally purchased our RV on June 24 of 2007 as a surprise for my husband's 60th birthday. This would be our entry into the wonderful world of RVing! We had no experience with tents, pop-ups, trailers, fifth-wheels or any other camping traditions. We just took off with the movie "RVing" in our DVD drive and a sense of adventure! At that time, it was just three of us: our cat, Hershey, my husband, and me. We knew nothing about anything in the camping world. Never lit a fire, roasted a marshmallow, emptied a black tank or stowed breakables for the bumpy journey. We learned the hard way about leveling the coach, emptying the tanks, choosing routes (and campgrounds) that were suitable or "big-rig friendly." We learned the precious abiltiy to stand outside the coach and scratch our heads when we couldn't figure it out, only to have a fellow RVer show us the ropes. I hope to share some of the wonderful experiences we have had and some new ones as they occur. There are now four of us. Sadly, last May we lost our beloved cat at the ripe ol' age of 16. Now Kobie, our 5-year-old American cocker spaniel, and Bruiser, our 2-year-old Shih Tzu, travel with us down the roads and love nothing better than sniffing out new trails, chasing squirrels and leaving their mark on every tree stump available in each and every campground in this wonderful land of ours.