[Don't cry over spilt soup!]

Linda and I had quite a chuckle(I should say laugh) over your blog. We always experience similiar experiences with our homes on wheels. Now we had company over for dinner one night and Linda took this hot dish out of the convection microwave. She didn't drop it but did spill a lot of gravy all over the carpet. I knocked over a bottle of beer, had a couple of floods(left the bathroom tap open while filling up the water tank), and of course dog accidents!

Shhh-traded the motorhome and didn't tell them.

[A Summer Like No Other]

This year spring and summer have flashed by. Your blog sounds like our summer has been. We covered many miles but quality of time spent actually enjoying the aspect of travel has not been there. A quick trip out west for the birth of a granddaughter, stayed there too long(2 1/2 months), and a fast return trip as the whole family made the trip back with us for the christening in Linda's church. Now we are leaving this weekend for Ottawa for a month for our second son's wedding.

Coming to the conclusion we may go full time in the spring as this past 12 months we have spent half the time in our coach!

[August 6, 2009 Bemidji Mn]

Bemidji-that place rings a bell. Right on US 2 which we quite often travel. We stayed down the road just east of there in Cass Lake, MN.

[The Purchase]

Edmonton!!! Have been here for two weeks at Whitemud RV park for the birth of our granddaughter-snow and quite cold as I am sure you know. Sound like you spent enough time on research and wish you luck with your coach. Here in Canada we call them all motorhomes but it seems(I have learned)the proper term is a coach for the Class A models.

Same engine and chassis as mine and not many miles either.

[Locked in motorhome]

A couple we know were camping at Jekyll Island and got locked out. Somehow one of their cats jumped up and hit the door lock. They managed to jimmy the drivers window and get back in-all the time it was pouring rain. Now getting locked in-that is definitely a different story!!

[Fakes right, goes left!]

Plans always seem to change. Last year Linda and I travelled to Edmonton by motorhome to visit our son and his wife-once we arrived Linda's brother called saying that their mother in Wales had taken a turn for the worse. Now we knew she was poorly as Linda had just returned from Britain from visiting her,but we had to make this trip west to see our son,of course. So Linda booked a flight from Edmonton to Cardiff,Wales immediately($10,000) and flew off. She got there in time to bid goodbye to her mother. Well worth the trip. I returned home to Ontario by myself.

[We start at day 1...]

Great! Another blog to read. If you read my last blog it was about a bonfire night. We got along great with a couple from Florida driving a 2007 Monaco Diplomat. Actually we are planning to get together next February with that same couple to tour South Texas. The town of Harlingen actually came up. Plan on having visitors next year. This website is great to keep in touch with other motorcoach owners and their travels.

[Doing Things The RV Way]

Will try and keep track of your travels as you will be traveling through upper MI on US 2 as well. We should be traveling through there around May 3rd-5 on our way to Alberta. Will keep watch for your Bounder. Right now we are in your state-just south of Perry.

[Going Full-Time]

Thanks for comment on my blog. Wife Linda is diabetic with complications so getting around can be difficult. We are four blocks from the beach and used the wheelchair yesterday. Today a fellow camper from NC has offered us a ride. We did not bring the car as was our first trip with new coach.

[Planning for the Summer]

We take US 2 as our main route through MIchigan towards Alberta. Again we do deviate as well. See more of the country off the beaten path. A great place to visit was Missouri State Park, Kildeer,ND. Just south of US 2-northwest of Bismarck. If you like the badlands like we do.