Tonight we’re staying in Rock Island which is part of the Quad Cities area (Davenport, IA). The Mississippi River runs through the area, and this week the river crested at the 7th or 8th highest level ever recorded.
I took this picture from the news service.
These are pictures from a couple of sites over from where we are. They had to close a good portion of the campground because the sites are flooded. But the geese are happy 🙂
This is not going to be a very exciting post as we are just trying to cover some miles to get to the west. We’ve had terrible weather since Friday but starting tomorrow it should get a bit better now that we’ve made it to Columbus, OH. There was snow going through western PA at the higher altitudes (this was actually snow but looks like rain).
Though there were glimpses of how pretty some of the area is.
And Beau was on top of his co-pilot duties! Or maybe not…
on our first day – but just barely! Oh boy, sometimes things just don’t come easy. The manufacturer didn’t get our RV back to us until a week before departure. Some things still weren’t fixed after it being with them for 9 months – which was really discouraging after all the issues, and we still had things to do to it once we got it back – outside of what the dealer had on the warranty list.
Combine that with having to empty out our kitchen at the house for a gut reno (but coming back to a brand new kitchen!) while we are gone, it was a rough departure from the house to say the least. And the weather conspired against us to boot with a corker of a storm front coming through the day before we had to leave. However we did it, and here we are in Newburgh, NY on the way to State College, PA area tomorrow on schedule.
So not a lot of scenery pics today, but a couple of Beau pics. He was such a trooper adapting to his first day of the road trip with not a lot of play time.
In this pic the slides are closed for travel. The Beast needs a spring cleaning which we’ll do when we get a layover day.
Settled right in 🙂
Good thing we have a co-pilot!
I haven’t taken many pictures of the Beast yet, there has always been too much nice scenery around to focus on instead, but here are the few I have.
It’s a Fleetwood 2022 Bounder 33C for anyone that is interested in RVs, which means it’s about 34′ long (not counting the Jeep) and powered by gas. It has a king bed, nice kitchen, fireplace, and 4 (count em’!) TVs – we don’t have that many in the house! I’ll post some pics of the inside with the changes we have made when we are on the road.
It’s too big to bring near the house, Gloucester streets are just too narrow, and we live on a one-way square with sharp corners. So here it is down at the Fish Pier where we can load and unload if we don’t get a campsite at the nearby campground.
It has slideouts on both sides which means it opens up wide when we are parked.
In addition to all the comforts of home already in it, we are starting to accumulate all the “stuff” it seems RVers do. Not these table and chairs, but probably our favorite thing so far – our Solo stove.
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