Whelan's Wheels (go round and round, round and round): As Cheryl Wheeler says ...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

As Cheryl Wheeler says ...

"When fall comes to New England" .... but hmmmmm this isn't New England - it's Michigan ... equally as beautiful isn't it? These photos were taken as Rick, Sir and I walked the looooong walk around this lovely, quiet and peaceful campground (Leisure Lake Campground in Sumner, MI). It was so wonderful for the three of us to walk - I love to walk but I really love to walk if Rick is with me ... I guess perhaps that is one of my many excuses for lack of exercise, but I really do like it when we walk together - especially around campgrounds we may be staying at!

so, am I imagining it or is something a bit "off" in the photo below? I swear this is the way I took it - I didn't (nor do I have the knowledge or ability) to play with a photo - I take 'em, I download 'em and I upload what I want to the blog - that's the extent of my abilities, such as they are ~ well more on that in a minute.

See why I love this campground? I guess Sir is wishing the spent sunflowers (photo below) a fond farewell???

We will be leaving here in the morning. This has been one of the very very few campgrounds we've come across that I really think I could spend a few months (work camping perhaps?). The sites are spacious, the owners are gracious, the staff is oh so pleasant .... but alas, this campground's season ends tonight ;-(

We are headed to a Moose Lodge 30 miles down the road. We also are headed to the "Upper Peninsula" with Larry, Sheila and Donni Friday afternoon for a few days. While we are there we are hoping to see Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, which will complete our tour of the Great Lakes.

Now for my photographic expertise (yeah right) .... while we were walking this evening I stumbled and fell (resulting in hurt pride and beautifully swollen ankle) and now the camera has "issues" (my bad, my pissed off actually) - "lense error" is the error I'm getting - as in the lense won't go in or out - sort of stuck somewhere in between and I can't take photos .......... DAMN DAMN DAMN ... the camera is what, four months old if that? Thankfully, at least we still have the old camera, but damn it I don't want to regress .... On top of just buying a new monitor then a new laptop I sure as hell don't want to buy a new camera .... UGH .... how to put a damper on what was a wonderful day!

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Our attempt at a blog - quite scary isn't it?

We left MA in early October, 2007 after I (Tracey) retired September 5 as an executive assistant for a software developer and Rick retired from his job on October 1. We passed papers on our house September 28th and off we went. We traveled down the east coast to the Florida Keys ~ where we planned to spend three nights but 17 nights later had to leave our site because someone had reserved it a year prior! We then stayed in northern FL for another month and headed off to meet our Marine returning to the San Diego area after his second tour "over there". We spent several wonderful weeks realizing why grandparents get tired easily! After the San Diego area we headed to the "low desert" (certainly a new phrase for us) of CA and into western AZ .. and decided it was finally time to start the blog we'd talked about since August or so!!

So many wonderful things we saw along the way. And the people, oh the people. I have said so many times to Rick the best part of this journey has been the people. So, so many people with so many interesting stories. Think about it - think about the stories YOU have and multiply that by the many many people we must have met along the way ~ particularly a social person like Rick .. we met a rattlesnake milker in Sweetwater, TX, we met the camp hosts in the Keys who summer back in NH ~ talk about the best of both worlds! We met the female police Sgt. at the Sweetwater Elks whose son was also in Iraq at the same base as my son. We met people in Slidell, LA who survived Katrina and had a great attitude and a smile on their faces and were proud to share their local cuisine with us. We saw the Blue Angels, purely by chance, in El Centro, CA. Or the "campground" where within an hour of arriving our house had been hit three times by golf balls! Or the Elks lodge in Indio ~ the sweetest, bike riding, bartender ~ I just wanted to pack her up and bring her along on our adventure. Not to mention the aerial tram while we were there, the warplane museum for Rick who does NOT do aerial trams! The Salton Sea ~ WOW just WOW. We stayed in the lovely little town of Wilcox, AZ - there was just something about that town. How about Pensacola, FL where the Elks Lodge on the beach is now built high, very high, off the ground! Or what about Huntington Beach State Park in Murrels Inlet, SC - talk about beautiful. What a great place that was to spend our first Thanksgiving on the road with good friends - that was something to be thankful for, for sure. Our first Christmas and New Years in the Keys!! WOW. The love and support of a dear friend in FL while Rick had to fly back to Boston and we dealt with all that entailed with unexpected follow ups back in FL .. how fortunate were we through all of that. Not to mention having the new trailer outfitted in Myrtle Beach and staying at what a week or two a year is the Broken Spoke? Or the kind and soft spoken LA Police Detective who is on the gang unit? So many people, so many stories. And there is so much ahead. The people .. did I mention how wonderful the people have been - all different walks of life .. so many personalities, so many stories! I have said many times ~ I need to pinch myself every morning to be certain it REALLY is happening to US! We are so grateful.

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