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12-09-2013, 08:00 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Bob Ruggles
Trailer: 2015 Escape
Michigan
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Counting the days
But not the hours & minutes (yet). On Dec 24 I'm pointing south. I'll get to Indianapolis that day and stay there until Dec 29 for family Christmas. Then I head toward Arizona. Gotta be there before Jan 5 because I pick up my elder son on the 5th. He'll be with me until the 12th when I drop him at the airport for his flight back to Michigan. After that I'll probably be roaming around the state or possibly staying a while in or near the Verde Valley. Really itchy to get going. This will be the first time I'll have made that 2000 mile trip alone. The EggCamper is partially loaded.
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12-09-2013, 08:12 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
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Bob, Drive carefully; we're having a particularly rugged winter and the mid-west is feeling the brunt of it. So far in our travels across the south this has been the coldest winter in our 13 years.
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12-09-2013, 09:25 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: 2012 Escape 19
Oklahoma
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Have a safe trip, enjoy.
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12-09-2013, 09:41 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Imogene
Trailer: 2013 Casita
Missouri
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Bob, have a safe trip, keep your eyes to the sky, and watch the weather reports. crazy, crazy weather. Maybe we will bump into you in AZ. Hope to be in the Cottonwood area after xmas. then to the Tucson area around new years. Casita being pulled by a dark tundra with mo. plates and two little ole grey haired ladies just a rambling along .
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12-09-2013, 09:59 AM
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Not far behind you Bob. The plans at the moment to leave the 26th. Getting to Katherine Landing around the first of Jan. We weren't too crazy about Cottonwood, from Katherine Landing probably head for Los Vegas Bay, then up to Death Valley.
I'm so ready to get out of this cold... Brrrr.
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12-09-2013, 03:52 PM
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Member
Name: Richard
Trailer: Casita
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Hi Bob,
Please have a safe trip. When you get there, post some pictures so that those of us in the north can remember what sun and warmth are.
Rick "in freezing Massachusetts"
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12-09-2013, 04:07 PM
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We are planning to head south on Christmas Eve Day, too. We plan to drive to Chattanooga, then to Tampa on Christmas Day. Finally to Marco Island KOA on the 26th. We'll be there until the 31st, then head back to Tampa for the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1. We'll head home to Oak Park starting on Jan. 2. We're hoping for warm weather in south Florida and safe travels in-between! Our only hold up right now is waiting on a new (to us) tow vehicle that is still at the dealer having some repairs done prior to our final purchase. We need to install a hitch and wiring (which I have), but would like to road test it before heading to Florida!
Safe travels, Bob!
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12-09-2013, 06:58 PM
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to all those on the road----safe travels! it only takes a second's inattention to
cause big problems.
and merry christmas to all!!!
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12-09-2013, 08:46 PM
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Oh man, I'm so jealous. The only place I'm going over the next month or more is... to work
Safe travels everyone. Be safe!
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Ten Forward - 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Double Yolk - 1988 16' Scamp Deluxe
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12-10-2013, 07:05 AM
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Senior Member
Name: bob
Trailer: 1996 Casita 17 Spirit Deluxe; 1946 Modernistic teardrop
New York
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Kevin; where in Tampa?? I'm watching the weather there daily thinking we may want to go back to Fort DeSoto in Feb.
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12-10-2013, 07:16 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
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Kevin, We recently left warm FL for cold Texas, freezing last night. Ginny reminds me every day, usually with a smile, what the temperature is in central FL, 83F today.
She's for turning around on this particularly cold fourth quarter. Of course NOAA projected a warmer than normal winter in the Southwest this year.
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12-12-2013, 04:30 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: 2012 Escape 19
Oklahoma
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Perhaps consulting the Farmer's Almanac would have been better. Weather is always a bit of a gamble. From what the weatherman said this AM here in OK, another massive cold front should hit us around the 20th... colder than the recent/current one. I am with Ginny on this one, wishing I were in FL.
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12-12-2013, 04:54 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
Posts: 7,517
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Mike, Norm is in the business of global warming, but where's the warming. We'd like a little.
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12-12-2013, 04:59 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 92 16 ft Scamp
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Glad your planning to head out Bob. I hope you have a safe trip and find some warm weather which all of North America seems to be a bit short on currently.
I am very jealous of all the warm weather talk! Just got home from 10 days in Banff National park where the temps got to -40C (which is the same as -40 F) and colder with windchill...... warmest day was -23C but with winds of over 40 mph it felt colder than -40!
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12-13-2013, 11:09 AM
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Ha Ha, we're the opposite. We would love to head North so it actually FEEEEELS like Christmas! There is something wrong with putting up lights and picking out a Christmas tree wearing shorts and flip flops in 85 degree temps.....hard to get in the Christmas spirit for sure.
Melissa in all too sunny Florida
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12-13-2013, 06:14 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
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Melissa,
Almost wish we were back there suffering with you.m Florida is about the only warm place in the USA. It snowed in Cairo, Egypt for the first time in 112 years. The Sun's output is at it's lowest level in 100 years.
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12-13-2013, 06:28 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Jon
Trailer: Escape 21C
New York
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I have to admit I may not get the same Christmas feeling as usual this year, but I've done 69 years (well, 68 since one was spent in Viet Nam) in the Northeast with the appropriate cold & snow, and I'm willing to experiment! It made it to 60°F today and was only down to 41°F last night here at Buckskin Mountain State Park in southern Arizona & I'm not complaining. Checked on home in upstate NY, and there is 6" of new lake effect snow and a high of 20°F today...
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12-13-2013, 09:05 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: 2012 Escape 19
Oklahoma
Posts: 6,020
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Carol H
Glad your planning to head out Bob. I hope you have a safe trip and find some warm weather which all of North America seems to be a bit short on currently.
I am very jealous of all the warm weather talk! Just got home from 10 days in Banff National park where the temps got to -40C (which is the same as -40 F) and colder with windchill...... warmest day was -23C but with winds of over 40 mph it felt colder than -40!
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Wow, what a time of year to head to the northern mountains. BRRRRR! But hey, where are the PICTURES?
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12-13-2013, 10:31 PM
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Junior Member
Name: Jan and Paul
Trailer: Escape
Washington
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John - I lived in Rome NY for awhile and always wondered if that lake effect snow looked different from regular snow! Drove a VW bus so froze half to death regardless
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12-14-2013, 12:30 PM
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Senior Member
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Yes, I've always wondered that too so please educate us!
Quote:
Originally Posted by SpokanEscape
John - I lived in Rome NY for awhile and always wondered if that lake effect snow looked different from regular snow! Drove a VW bus so froze half to death regardless
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