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 YCGL - The New Adventure - Backing Up and Moving Forward...... May to July 21-24, 2022 Dear Friends, When I started writing this blog back in February, 2021, it was primarily so that I could inform Erik and Liz and both my families (Edgar and Wojahn) that I was traveling and that I was ok to drive the motorhome by myself, make short and long term arrangements and basically survive on my own.  It was a big step to travel without Sally, my co-pilot, and quite possibly, I wouldn't handle it so well.  It was important information to pass on, but it also became a somewhat intimate (really, maybe more Factual than intimate) diary of everything that was going on during my travels.  And then, when I got home from my Minnesota trip, it just died.  No motorhome trips, no blog. So it made sense to start the blog up again when I got the new travel trailer.  I got the first two items out about the truck/trailer and the first camping trip.  But to talk about the se...

YCGL - A New Adventure -  July 6-9, 2022  I got it partially packed up on Wednesday and mostly completed by Thursday noon so drove up to Sand Creek campground for two nights.  I was driving west on US130 about 3:00 listening to the opera on SiriusXM when it occurred to me that it was so quiet in the truck that I could Listen to the opera.  The speaker system has a noise reduction system that was almost as quiet as my 2008 Prius.  The air conditioning was keeping me cool and comfortable, and I was pulling the trailer at 65 like I was driving a car, not continually correcting like driving the motorhome.  I decided that all the pieces fit together, and I liked what I had gotten.    When I got to the forest service campground we always went to, it took about 20 minutes to back up into the back-in site.  Yes, I know.  Keep you hand on the bottom of the steering wheel and move your hand the direction that you want the back of the trailer to go...

 YCGL - A New Adventure - June 19-July 5, 2022 Hello Dear Friends, Welcome to the craziness! I've said several times that the motorhome, as great as it is, is just too big.  So I've been searching for an alternative.  Here are some criteria I want to have in the next RV.   1.  I want it smaller.  The motorhome is 31 feet long and the Chevy Sonic with the hitch is nearly 20 feet, so I'm right about 50 feet total.  (I know, my brother's Class A and his trailer, on which he hauls a rock-climbing Jeep and a Smart Car, is right at 65 feet, so mine seems tiny to him.)  I'm looking for a trailer about 17-20 feet long. 2.  I want it to be Four Seasons.  (Luxury like the Hotel chain would be nice, but probably not necessary.)  Not just the summer and late spring and early fall.  I want to be able to take it most anywhere and most any time.  Go to Portland in November?  Sure.  Phoenix in February?  You bet. ...