On the Road to Alaska

On the Road to Alaska
Denali from the Air

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Chapter 20 Rally, Manheim PA

                                      Great to be ‘HOME’
No, we did not really go ‘home’, but to a Chapter 20 Rally. We have so many good friends there that it seems like going home. We arrived on Tuesday which gave us time to settle in before everyone else got there. We spent Tuesday evening with Bill and Lois Boose, talking about Alaska. Lois retired from teaching this year and then had both knees replaced. She is doing well, so they are off on their first real ‘full timers trip’. They were going to the Gypsy Journal Rally in Ohio and then they are venturing west for the winter and eventually to Alaska next summer. Happy Trails.
On Wednesday and Thursday more people arrived. We had a social hour on Wednesday and then on Thursday we all went out to eat. Friday the hosts served us dinner and we had a great time visiting with friends. Saturday was breakfast, business meeting and a pot luck dinner in the evening, followed by a very lively auction. We had a wonderful time and we are looking forward to seeing some people over the winter and more people at the SKP ACRE Rally in Marion NC in April.
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                 Ann, Fran and Ira                                             Ira, Joe and Rudy
We headed home on Sunday, not sure what we would find for detours once we got close to home. We were not able to come home on Route 414 through Canton so we traveled north through Troy and home on Route 6. There was one detour around a bridge in East Troy and in Luther’s Mills there was a large section of road that was washed away. They have bulldozed all of the debris away and we had quite a drop onto old road bed and then a good bump  back up onto pavement. When we got home, everything was fine, just looked like no one had been living here for about six months! If it ever stops raining here we can get some mowing done.
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We had a great five months on the road, but it is great to be home again. Lots to do before we head out again in November.