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.


Saturday, January 8, 2011

Our Christmas Greetings

We hope this season finds you wrapped in the warmth of family, friends and good spirit.


As you may know, Rick and I set out in October 2009 for our “Great Adventure”…i.e. nearly one year of travelling most of North America in our 40 foot motor coach that we fondly call Gigantor. It was the most extraordinary of times and we are so grateful to have had the opportunity to indulge in “chasing the sun for as long as it’s fun”.

We crossed many things off our bucket list….The Rose Bowl Parade, The Grand Canyon and Napa Valley were at the top… and visited so many jaw-droppingly beautiful places, it’s quite impossible to tightly sum it up.

We travelled over 20,000 miles in coach and car. We meandered the entire coastline from North Carolina to Whistler, British Columbia and developed an obsessive behavior of collecting far too many shells. Rick jumped feet first into surf and deep-sea fishing. We got to visit so many dear friends along the way. Played great golf courses, ate in some terrific restaurants, went to cooking school in New Orleans, gazed at the stars and watched sunrises and sunsets from coast to coast. Spent the winter in the California, Arizona and Nevada deserts and Rick helped build two Habitat for Humanity homes in Las Vegas. We carped the Diem, as they say, and it was extraordinary.  The archives on the  right side of this blog will lead to the in-details.

Kelly, Chip and Ian moved to Newport, RI in August where Chip is working at the Naval War College. Kelly is again diving into volunteer work and Ian is getting settled in fifth grade which is middle school there. One of the highlights of our trip was when they came to visit us in San Diego and we did all the fun kid-things there. We also got to visit with Rick’s son, Matt, as we travelled through Spokane.

Now, our next great adventure is searching for a new home somewhere a little warmer than the northeast. We’ve been at it for almost two months now….thought it would be easier than this, but supposedly the joy is the journey!

We hope we’ll be sending new address cards out soon.  May you have the happiest of holidays and joy and peace in the New Year. Merry Christmas.



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