A TIP OF THE HAT TO THE PINERY PROVINCIAL PARK

FILE PHOTO OF THE FIRST TIME WE HOOKED UP THE CAR TO THE MOTORHOME

Be sure to have a look at Gypsy's posts over the last couple of days as she writes an assessment of her first 6 months on the RV road. Her ups & downs, thoughts, feelings, & ideas come straight from the heart. http://gypsy97.blogspot.com/

On May 14th seasoned RV traveler but new blogger Rick asks the question, "is it (his blog) going to be interesting to anyone." http://rickpaulettervjournal.blogspot.com/ He receives a straight forward comment from Jerry & Suzy http://jerrysuzylifeonwheels.blogspot.com/

And I noticed The Goodelife folks http://dgoode.blogspot.com/ have just posted a decision to-day that is so relevant to a lot of RV'ers at some point in time. It's a life altering change that many have already made & many others at this moment are seriously thinking about.......including ourselves. Seems the majority of our RV friends are all fulltimers.

The weather for our holiday long week-end is not co-operating. Rain moving in to-night for the next 3 days. That will make for a lot of unhappy campers in our Pinery Provincial Park about half an hour south of us right on Lake Huron. http://www.pinerypark.on.ca/ For Kelly & I it was our favorite place to go every spring after shaking off the long doldrums of winter years ago. We would drive there in early spring & take long hikes & bicycle rides on the winding paved roads or climb up & down the huge sand dunes. We would find a sunny sheltered spot in the dunes & get an early start on our summer tans. Who ever heard of sun screen in those days. The Pinery is actually an Oak Savannah with a heavy mixture of pine & oak trees with the lazy old Ausable river channel meandering right through the middle of it. And along the whole western edge of the Pinery is the beautiful green & blue waters of shimmering Lake Huron. When we got our first RV years ago we headed straight for the Pinery to try out our new adventure & it was here that we sat by the campfire on starry nights with towering pines & oak trees overhead. With the symphony of waves gently rolling onto the beach a short distance away we began dreaming of one day traveling the highways & by-ways of North America. It all seems so long ago & yet in just a few short years we have been able to turn that dream into a reality. Thanks for the inspiration & all the great memories Pinery & I hope we get back to visit you again one day soon:))

If it's raining to-morrow I'll work on putting up a new photo album. Haven't posted one since getting back home around the end of March..............................

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