report from the road: 2010 Travels


At a Wyoming rest area

We left to pick up our motorhome on June 18, and returned home on July 5, 2010. We drove our towed so we would learn to drive with our car attached and so we could get around places once we had parked each day. The cats stayed home (with a neighbor). Google maps says the trip one way is 2,183 miles. We didn't take many pictures or write many impressions of where we were; we were too busy driving and taking notes on how to do everything right.

We drove from home near Moscow, Idaho, through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and on to Nacogdoches, Texas, and Motorhomes of Texas. Our Foretravel was ready and waiting for us. Wow! During the past four years, we had traveled to look at many Class A motorhomes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah. We knew a lot about these vehicles, but we had no personal experience using one.

Stewart and Mike at Motorhomes of Texas worked with us for six days as we lived in our motorhome on their store lot. We "almost" dry camped--hooked up to electricity, but not water or sewer. We practiced using all the systems and had a driving lesson. We cooked our meals in our new home, simplifying menus and everything else as the days passed. And we stopped using so much water.

When Stewart and Mike decided that we knew what we were doing, we headed for home. We had decided to return via the same route that we came to Nacogdoches, except we would circumvent Dallas. Therefore, our first day's destination was 163 miles to the Wal-Mart parking lot at Paris, Texas. All the other days' mileage was much longer. Roger drove two 500+ days in a row. We won't do that again. 250 miles is our preferred daily limit. We need to remember that we're doing this for fun.

Oklahoma City

No wind this day. The tree is in permanent lean. Russell, Kansas

camping with the big boys at a truck stop in Kansas

Before we arrived in Nacogdoches, we thought we would never dry camp. This experience gave us great confidence that we could do it. As it turned out,on this trip back to Idaho, we dry camped more nights than we stayed in RV parks.