Been There, Done That

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France

We’ve been lots of places.  We had crossed all fifty states off long before we started moving around in an RV.  We’ve been there and done that but we haven’t really done that.  I’m guessing you probably know what I mean.

The plan to visit all 50 states didn’t have any criteria.  I mean we didn’t have to sleep there.  We didn’t have to spend any time there really.  We just had to put our foot on the ground.  There were a few states we barely did that in.  North Dakota was one of those.  It was the last state and had been the last state for quite some time.  We crossed over from Minnesota, drove a few miles before turning around and headed back to the airport in Minneapolis.    I guess that means we’ve been there but not really done that.

We’ve visited some pretty great places but we’ve also done so very little in other places.  There are many things we’d like to do, many places we’d like to go again. I'd love to do the Civil War battlefields.  I'd love to see places we haven't seen.  However, we seem to keep dragging our feet and just doing the same stuff over and over.

 

Now some folks we know settle down during the winter months and explore during the summer months.  We have been a little opposite in that we have been pretty content hanging around family during the summer.  After all they are definitely in a location that is not considered a winter destination. 

Travel during the winter months is limited due to weather.  You’ve got to stay south ….. way south.  One year we traveled along the gulf coast and into Florida.  Other than that we’ve mostly hung around the southwestern states moving north as the weather started to warm early in the year.  We can say we’ve really been there and done that over and over again.  We’re definitely ready for a change.  We want to go someplace different this year.  We don’t know where but just that’s what we’d like to do.  Will we?  I don’t know. 

Last year we had planned on being Winter Texans.  Then, we bought ATVs and took them with us.  That shortened our travel distance.  This year .... we're still undecided but we're thinking.

It seems most RVing snowbirds (or is it sunbirds) tend to spend the winter pretty much in the same location each year.  We don’t want to do this but that doesn’t mean we have any idea where we want to go.  Is it too much to ask for something new with perfect weather, beautiful scenery and reasonable prices?  The search is on.  Half the fun of travel is the research.  Where will it be?  We have no idea but we aren’t looking around Arizona.  Just where is that perfect place?

‘Tis life on the road.