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2016 Wrap Up

We spent about 6 weeks in Florida visiting with Joshua and our friends and getting all of our annual doctor and dentist appointments checked off the list.  Normally we would spend more time in Florida but we had an opportunity to have some paint work done at the factory in Indiana on the RV so we took that opportunity to do so and headed up to the "North" at the end of December. A personal shout out to Tina and family. We will always remember Don who lost his courageous battle in 2016.

I'll continue the saga in our www.Deane2017.blogspot.com entries.  All in all another year for us, good health, good friends and good luck!

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & our Entegra Factory Visit (October, 2016)

After leaving New England we headed to Aurora, Ohio to meet our good friends from Kentucky (they have a Phaeton coach).  We had all talked about going to the R&R HOF in Cleveland for so long, we decided we had better go and do it before Winter set in.  We all enjoyed the day touring through the history of R&R. The rest of our time was spent eating and playing dominoes.  Again they beat us but we did give them a run for their money this time.  It was so relaxing and so much fun to spend time with them again.  It had been too long since we had camped with them.  Posting a picture of Carl in front of ZZ Tops car which is prominently displayed at the R&R HOF.

 

Then we were off to the Columbus, Ohio area to see "Aunt Ruth".  It is a always a pleasure to visit with her and get all of the latest family news.

A few days later we were in and out of the Spartan Factory in Charlotte, MI after having our coach checked out and Koni shocks installed.  Les decided to have all the annual maintenance done so we stayed an extra day there.  Yay for us because we met the nicest people, albeit they were American Coach folks (okay this is a friendly nudge)....Brett & Susan.  They are also full-timers and we had a good time chatting with them.

Off to the Entegra Factory to have our PDI done as well as some other more involved work (roof replacement).  We love our coach and we are extremely happy with all of the people at Entegra.

September in New England!

As most of you know we generally spend the end of Summer into early Fall in New Hampshire doting on my niece's two adorable little girls.  This year is no different and we had a wonderful time playing with and spoiling them.  Lyla is 6 and entered the First Grade this year and Kynlee is almost 2 1/2.  We did take her to the daycare school 3 days a week so that she didn't lose her spot when we left but watched her the other 2 days.  I will post a couple of photos that are especially cute.  Every morning while we waited for the bus both of the girls tortured "Uncle" and did his hair!  One day while I was doing laundry Kynlee sneaked into the room and hopped into the laundry basket.  A "girls only" cruise to Bermuda in September and a trip to Fenway Park capped off our visit to New England!

Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire

Since we were on the way to Vermont via New York we stopped at Brian and Jeanne's place near Potsdam NY and visited for an overnight.  Sadly Jeanne was in Mass. so Brian was stuck with us. We had such a nice time reminiscing and feeding his cattle and pigs.  So out of my element but I enjoyed it very much.  His cows are fairly friendly and trained to come to the fence when he is outside.  We fed them apples, although it took me several tries to get it in their mouth without letting their tongue touch me, and believe me they have long tongues!

Going to lump next three states together as we passed through two of them fairly quickly.  We landed on time in Vermont to spend a few days with Bob and Don and attend the very lovely graveside service for Bob's mother who passed away several months ago.  They have their own cemetery on the family property (aka The Farm) and it was a gorgeous day to celebrate her life.  The following day we were invited to attend Bob's brother and his wife's 50th wedding anniversary surprise party, needless to say good company, good food, good times!

Off to Massachusetts, specifically Lakeville to see our friend Pat, gorge on some local seafood and have a little visit with Aunt Betty.  Both of the cats enjoy hanging around outside Pat's house and Boots especially likes the view from the window sill inside!  Les had to have a project so he power-washed and stained the back of the house and put up new lights, have to say looks fantastic!  All is well in that neck of the woods so far and we intend to revisit in October before we head to Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

New Hampshire, our little part of the world that makes us smile when we see the "girls".  Gosh the "babies" are not that anymore, Lyla will begin 1st Grade in a week or so and Kynlee is 27 months.  We feel privileged to be able to spend quality time with them before we head out.  We will be posting some photos of the girls in the coming weeks.  I am taking a little time out to go to Bermuda with a couple of girlfriends, so Les will be the backup sitter for a couple of days while I am away.  Somehow I see KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut in his future!!

All for now...Ciao!

Salt Lake City, Heber City, Utah

After we left Big Sky, Tommy & Sheila and Les and I headed down to Utah for the week. We stayed at Mountain Valley Resort, very nice park with lovely amenities, would definitely stay there again.  We had so much fun and laughter this week, felt like we had all been friends forever and not just a short time.  We did some sightseeing, we had some cocktails and food and Les & Tommy actually took the bobsled down the Olympic Village at Park City!  They made the run in less than 1 minute, a daily record for the 3 man sled.  They had a really good time and Sheila and I were quite satisfied taking the photos!  We had a chance to go to the Great Salt Lake, something we hadn't done in the past.  Utah has a beautiful landscape and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit.  We were sad to leave but we were on a mission to get to Vermont in a little more than a week and needed a quick stop at the Entegra Factory for satellite repair.  I am posting a few photos of our adventures in Utah.

Here they go!

Panorama view of Great Salt Lake

What a time!

Oddly enough we left there and landed at Joliet Illinois at a casino RV Park and lo and behold we met up with some folks we had met in Arizona in January, what a small world the RV world is!

Big Sky, Montana

After a short stay in Bozeman we headed up to Big Sky Resort in a 4 coach caravan.  2 new couples we met at Bozeman and 1 we had met in Hilton Head and reconnected with here.  We were all headed to an Entegra Rally at the resort with fun activities and new friends to meet.  What a fantastic rally this was, first class everything!  We had mimosas and Bloody Mary's at 8800' at Everett's Patio, a short ski lift ride.  Just gorgeous, we were all oohing and aahing over the views!  The next day we took a lift up so far, then took an open truck ride to the tram shack and then took the tram up to the top of Lone Peak.  I'm posting some of the photos from that trip.

Tram to 11,110’ Summit

Sheila & Tommy

Randy, Tanya, Les, Pat

View from ski lift of 80 Entegra Coaches

Everett's Patio at 8800’ for cocktails

Randy & Miss Tanya

Sheila, Steve, President Tadd Jenkins, Pat, Tommy, Les
BBQ Night