On Sunday
January 2, 2005 we left Tucson and drove to Mesa,AZ About
a week later we went to Yuma for a night and then to the
Fountain of Youth campground in Niland, Ca despite the
name there ain't no youth's there On the 18 we went to
Anzo Borrego Desert State Park where our son and his late
wife visited us and one of our great restaurant finds
which is no longer there. After three nights we went down
to the Salton Sea for a few nights before going to
Quartzite Arizona and boondocked in the desert with many
Senior RV'ers. About a week later we went to Malibu with a
brief stop beck at the Salton Sea. We remained in
the Malibu RV Park until February 16 when we headed back
to Florida on I 10 which runs from Santa Monica to
Jacksonville, FL stopping at various campgrounds
along the way. Coming to Florida in late February without
reservations can be a hassle but we found places to stay
until March 11th when we packed up and headed to Fair Lawn
arriving March 14th. At the end of April 2005 we put our "stick
house" in Fair Lawn, N.J. on the market and began to plan for
the life of full time RV'ers. On July 25, 2005 we left Fair
Lawn and headed for Texas and our new domicile by way of West
Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas. We spent a week or so
getting our papers and new legal domicile in order and went up
to Madison, WI by way of Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.
After a family visit we went North to the Upper Peninsula
where we visited Fort Michilimackinac and the Grand Hotel then down to
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakefront and then back to Fair
Lawn.
On September 6, we returned to Fair Lawn found a new real
estate broker, moved whatever we wished to save to our
daughters new home in Connecticut and arraigned for someone to
hold an open house for the rest of our stuff. In
conjunction with the new broker we arraigned for an attorney
to represent us if a buyer was found and on September 16 we
went to the RV show in Hershey PA. From Hershey we went into
Ohio down through Indiana into Illinois where we visited some
state parks and went to an Escapade Rally. Returning to our
daughters for the Jewish Holidays. After Rosh Hashana we went
to a county park in NJ to celebrate Yom Kipper with friends.
On October 17th we headed South and worked our way down to
Florida by the coastal route. We spent the Winter in
Florida moving between State and County Parks in Southern
Florida.
At the end of April 2005 we put our "stick house" in Fair Lawn, N.J. on the market and began to plan for the life of full time RV'ers. On July 20, 2005 we left Fair Lawn and headed for Texas and our new domocile.
87. Going to Texas
88. Visiting Colonial Macilimackinac and The Grand Hotel
89. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakefront
90. Back to Fair Lawn, Chocolate Town, some fantastic State Parks in Southern Illinois and the Eastern Shore of Va in the fall of 2005
91. We continue down the coast through North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia