Easter Weekend Thursday

Flooding in lower New Englnd has been a big problem in the last several days and Rhode Island was hit the hardest. I-95 in Warwick, RI was completely shut down and we had to detour on our way to Cape Cod.

Boys and their toys; We were very surprised when we came upon the closed I-95 section and our GPS actually showed a road closed symbol.

What a surprise! Yes, sections of the campground we are staying at are underwater, including the entrance.


Home Sweet Home for the next four days. Wonderful campground, especially since no one else is really here.

Easter 2010

A new Easter Tradition: Find as many silk ties as you can, take them apart and cut them into squares. Must be 100% Silk for this to work.

You carefully wrap an uncooked egg with the silk finished side towards the egg, tie it off with a wire tie, then wrap it again with a piece of white cotton cloth and tie that one tight.

Place your wrapped eggs in a non-ferrous pan, cover eggs with water then add 1 cup of white vinegar. Bring to a boil and continue to cook at a slow boil for 20 minutes.

Cool your hard-boiled eggs and unwrap! Some patterns will work and as you can see some won't. But you get a very different type of Easter Egg. You can polish them with a bit of vegetable oil when completely cooled. Can you eat them? As long as the shell didn't crack enjoy your Easter eggs as usual. You can sew the small left over tie pieces together to make some really different designs.

Spring 2010

It's easy to tell when it is Spring around our house.

We start getting the Airstream ready for the camping season.

All systems are flushed and cleaned and gotten ready for anothe

fun season of camping. We will be hitting the road for our first

trip our April 1st!

An annual event is always polishing the tanks.

It is amazing how dull they get over the winter.

And of course you can't forget Sandi's gardens.
The Primrose are blooming promising yet another great year

of blossoms.

2010 Hurircane

Well we have all heard it before, more hurricanes this season than normal. Over the years Sandi and I have encountered only two hurricanes and we had been fortunate enough to be able to almost get out of their ways. But if the track record is any indication of hurricane predictions, we won't be worrying too much about rough weather this coming camping season.

Banana Mousse

One of the many things I really enjoy with Sara is cooking together. We have made some really wonderful dishes together, most of them being of our own design. This week we actually made a banana mousse. I found the recipe of all places from the Kenya Safari Club cookbook.

The main attraction was the mousse for dessert but we also made a wonderful pork loin seasoned with herbs and garlic, smashed potatoes and creamed corn. Now if only we could make edible antlers!

Mr. Bill

Well it had to happen sooner or later. Mr. Bill and his evil twin brother, Mr. Bill were at it again. They found my super special shirt from Rich and Sue and started a game of Tug-of-war. Yup, they ripped the shirt. Even during the winter these guys get into trouble. I was going to leave them in the Airstream for the winter but Sandi said they would get too cold.

It's going to be a long winter for sure.

Happy Thanksgiving

Greetings from Jonestown, PA.
This year our travels have taken us a bit South of the normal Plymouth, MA.

Sandi found this campground simply because it was open. There were a few rigs in and one gentleman, Bill who lives in his rig full time.

We have full hook-up but no cable which is a real bummer for Thanksgiving. We were hoping to catch the "Punkin Chunkin" on the Science Chanel.

We pretty much had the place to ourselves except for the five or more kittens. As seen, they would follow us around.

They were all cute.
Thanksgiving morning just the two of us. Nice and warm in our Airstream.
Starting my traditional pork stuffing. Thanksgiving would never be right without it. Passed down from my Grandmother. I hope someday Sara continues the tradition.
The one thing we have yet to do is to get some fancy table ware for Thanksgiving.

Sandi and I meet up with the Cape Cod Unit of WBCCI at the Charlie Brown Campground in upstate Connecticut for the weekend and had a wonderful time with some old friends we don't get to see too often. The theme of the rally was family roots and heritage, hence all the great flags we were flying!

Of course one of the many great aspects of a rally is the food at happy hour and the gathering of friends old and new. In this case we knew most everyone and it was great to see them all.

Our friend Bob (on the right) did all the dinner food cooking and wouldn't allow anyone else to help. He out did himself as always and there was plenty of great food for all.

A view from the top of the ridge line we were hiking. This is the Delaware Water Gap Valley.

One of the named falls towards the top of the water shed. Wedding Veil Falls.

We had stopped at Bushkill Falls two years ago and it was so crowded that we we didn't stay. This time around it was perfect. Very few folks there and we were able to enjoy the natural beauty of the falls. They have so many wonderful walkways around the falls, not only do they preserve the natural surroundings but fit in so well.

Yes, as proof of the fact that Sandi does travel with her husband, me. It's not too often someone catches a shot of me.

A shot taken from one of the walkways across the gorge just past the last of the falls.

The Main Fall, which is the last of a wonderful series of falls. We had taken the red trail which traveled the entire route up one side of the ridge and then down on the other side. A total of 2.5 miles which was quite steap at times.

After viewing my photos for the day I found that I had probably taken as many photos of sights surrounding the falls as the falls themselves. I find so often that people miss so much by not looking around when they are some place new. I also realize that I need a new macro lens! Hint, hint!

Up towards the head waters, the water is fast and confined into a narrow passage between the rock formations. It is amazing how much water is really traveling down stream.

A wonderful shot of the headwaters going down the ridge. This photo not only shows the volume of water heading down but also the walkways.

Fast water- Sandi brought up a very good observation; looks like Guiness Beer flowing!

Bushkill Falls

I found this sign to be of extreme interest after I thought about it over a glass of wine. We actually had to go back so I could snag a photo of it. Who would buy a used tire, and most important how do they come to have "Slightly" used tires? Are they like lawyers who race to the scene of a crash and claim the "slightly" used tires?

Yes we purchased a new GPS, or as Sandi would say; I purchased a new GPS. Seeing that we are on the road almost every weekend traveling to some place new this was a unit to have. It has so many very cool features including live traffic updates, very cool icons and a very good search feature including trip information and a fuel watch.


Speaking of fuel, the new truck is breaking in very well. We arrived at the campground in the Water Gap Thursday night and headed off to the other side of PA early (5:30 AM) Friday morning. On the trip across the state we averaged a wicked 16+ MPH without the Airstream. Very good for a 3/4 ton pick-up with a DuraMax! From what we have heard from friends who also have trucks like ours the mileage will only get better as we get closer to 25K miles.


One of the the many great aspects of traveling is the people and rigs you run into. I fell in love with this custom coach. It turns out to be a 42 foot custom tour coach on a Prevost foundation custom built for Whoopi Goldberg. The crew was on a layover and would pick her up on Tuesday and head back to Hollywood, CA. The rig is 10 years old and so pristine.

And here is our wonderful Airstream all tucked into our site with the big rig in the background. While Whoopi's rig has well over one million miles on it we figure we have about 35K. Probably a lot more considering we haven't really been keeping track and we have gone through two Tahoes which both had around 60K each when we traded them in. Truck four, the new one has 7K and 98% of that has been towing since March.

Gardens

After loosing most of our pepper garden to wild life last year we took Belle's old kennel and used it to enclose our garden this year. Well worth the effort! We have peppers now ready to harvest with much more to come. Cayane, Cherry Hots, Hungarian, Habenaro, Sweet Banana, Bell and few we are not sure of till we taste them.


Even though I am not a tomato person Sandi loves them, especially fresh. With all the rain we have had this year we have plants well over six feet tall but all the fruit is still greeen. Green fried tomatoes anyone?

The herb garden was not so good this year and again I think the rain had a lot to do with it. Everyone knows how much I love Penze's but there is still nothing better than growing your own.

Oregano hanging to dry, one of this years better crops.

And yes, fresh peppers for tonights dinner.

More fun at Grey Fox

There is much more than just the Main Stage at Grey Fox Bluegrass , the younsters