....Road Trips To America: April 2014

Roadtrip 13: Spring 2014:

The Pacific North West

From England we are setting out for San Francisco and the Pacific North West.

Introduction

We started this blog in 2007, when we first started our adventures.It had long been our plan to tour the United States. We have caravanned in the UK for many years so it seemed obvious to buy a caravan in the US. Now that we had retired we wanted to take our time, not just a few weeks at a time, as we had done before. Sally has CFS/M.E. and we need to plan travelling very carefully. We do not want to travel much more than a couple of hours a day, with plenty of days off. How best to accomplish this? After much thought we used our first trip to buy our own Travel Trailer and Tow Vehicle, which we keep in the U.S.
You can find more information about our transport on the page 'Our Rig'.
We started our trips to the USA in 2007 and have tried to make two trips per year since then.
For all of our visits we have written a blog, each blog is a written and pictoral record of the things that we have done and the places we have visited.
This page is where we can find a reference to the blog of each of our trips.
The blogs were originally a way of enabling our friends and relatives to keep up with us while we were away, as well as providing a record of where we went and what we did.

Where We have Been
As a general strategy our first base camp was Florida, then the South East United States. After that we have traveled across the South until we ended up in California. Using California as a base we explored the South West USA. We followed the Pacific North and are now heading back East, moving South and North with the weather.

What We Do
We have pursued a range of interests which have loosely fallen into the themes of: Music, the growth of the American Nation, Geology and People. The growth of the American Nation has had different emphases in different parts. In the East it is Civil Rights and Civil War. In the South West it is the relationship between US and Mexico/Spain. In the North West it Native Americans, exploration, pioneers, gold and water.
We hope that this record will provide some amusement for those who would read on.

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