Winging It

Our New Chevy Silverado

October 12, 2012
/ RV travel
/ By tom
/ 6 COMMENTS

We did it! We bought a 2013 Chevy Silverado 2500HD pickup for more towing capacity. We tried to choose a vehicle that would not only meet our current needs, but would also accommodate a larger trailer if we buy one in the future. On the other hand, we didn’t want to go overboard with more […]

Trailering to the Dells

October 3, 2012
/ RV
/ By tom

This past weekend we took our little trailer on it’s longest trip so far – 150 miles to Wisconsin Dells. We stayed at Fox Hill RV Park. It is a very nice facility with great people and plenty of activities. The weather was just about perfect and we had a good time. Unfortunately, this trip […]

Trailer Mods – TV Mount

October 1, 2012
/ RV
/ By tom

Our travel trailer has a shelf over the refrigerator, with an antenna and a power jack, where we could set a TV. But a television setting there was hard to see while sitting at the table or lying in bed so we wanted to mount one on a full motion arm. The problem was, there […]

MSU vs ND

September 19, 2012
/ travel
/ By tom

Georgia is a Michigan State alumnus and she has been wanting to return to the MSU campus for a football game for a while now. This past weekend, the Spartans were playing Notre Dame so we decided to go. We made the drive to East Lansing on Friday for the game on Saturday. Saturday morning […]

A Home for the Travel Trailer

September 13, 2012
/ RV
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

Our travel trailer finally has a new home beside the garage – letting me have my parking space back. Yesterday we had our old driveway removed and a new one laid down. There is now a pad beside the garage for the trailer and a widened driveway in front that will allow room to back […]

Wings Over Waukegan

September 11, 2012
/ airshows flying
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

Saturday was a great day for an airshow. Blue skies with some puffy clouds provided a beautiful background for the aircraft in flight over the Waukegan airport. The 70 degree temperature and a brisk breeze made it cool out on the ramp but I prefer that to sweltering in the heat. All the pilots handled […]

Second Trip With New Trailer

September 6, 2012
/ RV travel
/ By tom

We took advantage of the long Labor Day Weekend to return to Lehman’s Lakeside RV Resort where we were seasonal campers for over 10 years. This time we were there as weekend campers but, at our request, were given an RV site in the seasonal area. It was good to meet up with old friends […]

Shake Down Trip

August 28, 2012
/ RV
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

On the lot at Camping World Georgia and I had been considering a small travel trailer that we could pull behind our Jeep Liberty and had even looked at a few. But, with the Alaska trip coming up and not much vacation time left for this year, we had pretty much made up our mind […]

Alaska 2012 – Part 5

August 11, 2012
/ travel
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

Arctic Circle On Wednesday morning we were again up very early. We had to be at the Northern Alaska Tours office by 6 AM for a road trip to the arctic circle. It was too early to get breakfast so we each just grabbed a muffin by the front desk of the hotel. Then one […]

Alaska 2012 – Part 4

August 9, 2012
/ travel
/ By tom

Denali National Park We left Anchorage Sunday morning on our way to Denali National Park. We would be spending two nights there which was one of the main reasons we picked this particular cruise tour. After one stop at the Alaska Veterans Memorial, we arrived at the Denali Visitor Center in the late morning. Georgia […]