WHAT'S NEW

I heard stories of when lar was a young boy and he wanted a horse so bad he would cry at night..one year his parents let him buy a chance /raffle ticket on a pony and NO he did not win he so he was heart broken...they gave him a rocking horse and several other horse things over the years to make him happy... SO NOW HE HAS A HORSE

yep it is a new fifth wheel!!!!!!!!! we started shopping for one soon after we got back home this summer..we have been talking that maybe the time is getting close for us to bite the bullet and look for something new...the silverback was 7 yrs old and had over 65,000 miles on it as near as lar could figure...so we went to several different rv dealers and this is the one we found more to our liking...lar did not want anything longer than whan we had and only 2 slides...we ended up with one that is a 1 1/2 longer and three slides...last week was spent empting out the old one--and saying where did all this "STUFF" come from as box after box came out...this weekend we have been starting tp put box after box back in the new one...we want to spend time going thur the stuff to see what we might get rid of...stuff we haven't used in years...so the fun is beginning around here... NOW LAR IS A HAPPY MAN !!!!!!!!! ahhahaahahahhahaha

A WEEK HOME

as you know we are now home and arrived last sat around 5 or so give or take a wee bit... we had company arriving on wed from Colorado springs--friends we have know for a few years and of course first met them on a habit build where we first met them in tucson, az then in dade city...they are on their way to maine to see the leaves change in the northeast...Ithaca in right on the way so they stopped for a few days..had a good time visiting and showing them the sights of the finger lakes region of NY... of course we visit wineries--women's rights museum--saunders--and what ever else we came across to see and do.. on fri we were on our way to corning to visit the museum and went into Watkins glen for breakfast and don't you know the town had a big vintage car festival going on with a race at the track...so instead of going to corning we just stopped in Watkins to see all the old cars..so that changed our plans cause by the time all the cars had been looked at there really wasn't much time to go to the museum as we would have just gotten there and then it would have closed..so back to Ithaca we went to show all the falls and cornel campus...we had a good visit with pat and colleen... they are now on their way to the 1,000 islands and heading to maine with the hopes on making it to nova scotia...most of all they want to see the leaves and the beautiful colors..

pat is putting NY on the map...they almost have all the states --just a few more to go..

LAST FEW NATIONAL PARKS

we are now home and have traveled some --close to 9,000 miles so now our feet will be in one place for a couple of months before we take off again..we visited some 34 national parks--historic sites--monuments and got 47 stamps for our book...don't ask which one was the best cause there is no best or favorite each and every one had something special about it that ewe enjoyed...now there are a lot more for us to visit one of these days years...we have a mission and that is to get to as many national parks as we can and the list keeps growing... the last one was steamtown in Scranton, pa and because it was a holiday weekend they were having a special train weekend so there were way tooooo many visitors there so we did not get to see as much as we would have liked but we can always return if wanting too... now that we are back there is a lot of catching up to do around...there is always the lawn which we had mowed but the grass doesn't stop growing till the snow flies...and because of the flood damage we experienced while we were gone there is some clean-up of that...stones and gravel in places that it shouldn't be... of course a lot of general things to get done along with unpacking the rig...ugh... soo we had a great summer saw friends-- filled some of the things on our bucket list---saw and id things we never thought we would have--so all's well with us

ok the pictures fort necessity--can you imagining that holding on to an attack friendship hill where we listened to some period flute music Dwight and mamie eisenhowwer house sunset in pa and of course trains from steamtown..