Date: 10 September, 2022
Location: Radford, Virginia

Yep.  You read right.  "Location: Radford, Virginia".  Still.

We've had a lot of people asking us how our trip is going (since we
supposedly left on 30 August), and the short answer is "it's not...yet".

As we were preparing to leave, reality set in and we realized we still
had a lot of unfinished stuff that we needed to take care of before
taking a couple of months off.  So we decided to slow things down a bit
and delay our trip.

The RV is sitting safe and sound at Dan's house out in California,
patiently waiting for us to come West, while we're busy here in
Virginia, taking care of business before we go to pick it up.

We'll let you know when we are ready to finally pull the trigger on the
trip.  Until then, please bear with us while we "hurry up and wait..."

Like bad pennies...

 
Yep. We're back. Again. Like bad pennies. After an almost two year hiatus we're dragging the old Khronicles out of storage, dusting them off, and seeing where they take us this time around.

As some of you already know, a little over a year ago we tracked down and bought back our old Toyota Escaper (a.k.a. "Timmy" or "Houdini") from the young couple we sold him to. Unfortunately, he was in pretty rough shape and we spent the better part of last year fixing stuff. Then, in June, we decided to sell him again. Since then, we've been looking for a somewhat newer replacement with a little more room.

We don't know if any of you have been in the market for an RV in the last year or so, but it's an absolute zoo out there. We found the available choices to be limited, stupidly expensive, and anything under 25' and moderately priced sells within hours of being posted - usually before we even get to see it advertised. After a few months of this, we were beginning to get really discouraged. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Julie's son Dan sent us an ad for a 23' motorhome from his local Facebook Marketplace out in California.

We talked to the owner, Dan went and checked it out for us, the price was right, so we bought it and he drove it back to his house. All in the course of about 24 hours.

It's a 1998 Fleetwood Tioga 23B - a "class C" motorhome, very much like Timmy's big brother - but it's 11 years younger with half as many miles on it. 

We fly out there on 31 August to finally see it in person, set it up, get new tires, etc., and drive it back East. We'll be taking our time (it's over 2,200 miles as the crow flies), getting back in late October or sometime in November.

Julie's been hard at work going through our logs and plotting our previous routes on an old road atlas. Once she's done, we'll be able to easily see where we have and haven't been, making our day-to-day and longer term planning a lot easier.

We are looking forward to getting back out on the road and seeing where we go this time.

It's good to be back! See you again soon,

Mark & Julie