The roads go ever on...

 It's 2020. Toward the end of Summer. In consultation with our children, we have decided on on-line school as the best option for 2020-21 as we have only intermediate confidence in regular school running smoothly. Both of us have worked from home for years, so our work location is, well, anywhere. Now with school location also indeterminate, what's keeping us home?

Come and listen to my story about a man named Paul
An AAA data scientist mountaineer, barely leaving his family home,
And then one day his wife was looking at some RV's,
And up came the notion of hitting the road.

Asphalt that is, Route 66, Interstates, Tolls.

Well the first thing you know ol Paul's on the road,
The kinfolk said "come visit us, you hear"
Said "Minnesota, Indiana, and Florida are the places you ought to be"
So they loaded up the RV and they moved to KOA

Campgrounds, that is. Swimmin pools, under the stars.

So as J.R.R Tolkien wrote (in part)

Roads go ever ever on,

Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

The story begins...

The plan is to at least check the boxes of: over rock (lots of that in Nevada), under tree (Smokey Mountains), streams that never find the sea (Truckee River), over snow (stay tuned), though we left after June, there may still be merry flowers. We are going to caves where the sun has never shown (Mammoth Caves), and under mountains in the moon (Utah). And there will be plenty of over grass (Wyoming, Everglades), and over stone (Bad Lands, Mt Rushmore).

This blog will document the trip, and provide (I hope) a AAA worthy guide to RV road tripping.