Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Heading Out ...Finally

packing Tor So much clothes, gear and stuff had to be stored, we didn’t take off until 1pm. Scary getting Tor out of Georgetown. We are prepared for mishaps and misadventures, really only concerned about being safe. I’m a wreck sitting in the co-pilots’ seat….a maniac cuts us off on the Beltway..we serve, cabinets open, one wine glass down….

With winding, hilly roads and other questionable drivers. Rick’s driving skills are getting honed….this was a challenging inauguration. Only drove about 120 miles. Though scary driving, extremely beautiful, rolling hills in Maryland… stopped in Flintstone near the Cumberland Gap. There’s a beautiful state park with a golf course, though we were too big to stay there. Stayed at a mediocre park, but it turns out it doesn’t matter. Tor is so comfortable, just open up the slides, close the draperies and chill. Hadn’t done a big grocery shopping, no stores around and we only had the food we emptied out of the house. Had a half jar of pasta sauce, linguine, fresh parm and breadsticks…worked rather well. Met a nice couple from Orlando…retired pilot…gave us some good clues.

Rained, left awning out….big mistake. Not canted properly. In the middle of the night, we were jerry rigging a mechanism to push gallons of water out of a nearly buckled awning….took a pole we can’t figure out what it’s use is, the top of a cooler and kept pushing until we could roll the awning in. The best part about today is the incredible sense of freedom. While obligations still exist and will not be ignored, they are at arms length. Feels good.

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