Friday, April 13, 2018

New Mexico Revisited

We are still in Jacksonville. It seems to be warming up, up north. So we are now scheduled to leave April, 25th. Next stop Washington DC.

In September of 2016 we were in Albuquerque NM for the balloon festival (see previous blog). After the festival we stayed an extra week to see some of the local sights.

One of the sights we went to is Acoma Sky City. Acoma Pueblo is built atop a sheer-walled, 367-foot sandstone bluff in a valley studded with sacred, towering monoliths. Since 1150 A.D.

More on New Mexico in the next blog. Stay tuned.

Life is Great on the Roan Road…

Sunday, April 8, 2018

The next few posts will be catching up on the last two travel seasons(2016 and 2017). Not necessarily in the order we were visited them.

Before heading for the ABQ Balloon Festival we made toured New Mexico.

Pecos National Monument (Oct. 2016)

About an hours drive from Santa Fe.

The post cannot be complete without some pictures of the grandkids.

Oliver Brody (10 months)

Evelyn (3.5 years)

More to follow.

Life is Great on the Roan Road…

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Roan on the Road is Back !! (Jacksonville, FL)

After a two year gap I will be using this blog to keep up with our travels. The main reason is Facebook, Not that I posted often on Facebook, but with all of the personal info that is gathered, even just from your “likes”. I decided to start up our Blog again.

I will go back and post pictures of the past two years of travels.

We are now in Jacksonville, FL, as of now, until April 18, or until the Northeast warms up.

About a month ago Ann had a Cataract in her left eye removed. All went well. Now she is getting fitted for a new contact lens in her left eye. We are going to wait until next winter to see if the right eye is a candidate.

When we leave Jacksonville we will be heading to NYC or more precise the Mt Kisco area near where Heidi & Jay now reside in their beautiful new home, for a couple of weeks. Then we will be heading up north to the maritime provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick & Labrador for the summer.

All of the family. Evan’s house, December, 2017

Live is Great in the Roan Road…

Sunday, October 2, 2016

ABQ Balloon Festival (Albuquerque, NM)

First a Happy and Healthy New Year to all our family and friends. It is now 5777! We are having our holiday dinner here. The Brisket is made and gefilte fish and horseradish ready!

As you may have noticed I have been using Facebook more and more to post where we are.

There are too many pictures and videos right now to put it on Facebook. So I am using the Blog.

For the most part I will use Facebook and on occasion I will use the Blog for pictures. If you want to keep up with Roan on the Road. If we are not Facebook friends, please send me a friend request. Thanks.

We are now at the Albuquerque Balloon Festival, dry camping with the Escapees Boomers group. Dry camping for those of you who are not RVers, is being off the grid. No water, no sewer or electric connections. We carry our own fresh water and store the sewer water until we can dump it. We have solar and a generator for electricity.

There are hundreds of Balloons, of all shapes and size, from all over the world.

It all starts before Dawn. We were up and on the field before 5:30AM!

This is the Dawn Patrol. They launch fist to test the winds.

Then all the rest Launch!!

Mass Ascension

All of these pictures were taken right in front of our RV.

Note, the special shape balloon pictures are for Evelyn!!!!!!!!!!!!

Special Shapes

Darth Vader

Yoda

Keystone Cop chasing Con for Con artist (I call him Trump)

Wells Fargo Stage Coach (I think they are getting out of town)

Dragon

Butterfly

Smokey

Miss Court Jester

Yoda landing in front of our RV

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Immortalized in the National Archives (Norcross, GA)

After spending most of the winter in Florida, we are now in the Atlanta area seeing all our doctors. We moved all of our doctors to Atlanta, a more central area for us.

StoryCorps has a recording booth at the Atlanta History Center. StoryCorps was setup to record people’s story, any story, and to archive the recording in the Nation Archives in Washington D.C. So last Saturday, March 5th, we went to the recording booth at the Atlanta History Center and recorded how we started Full Time RVing and our life on the Roan Road. Note, Ann was the one who discovered the StoryCorps studio here and made it happen and checked it off her Bucket List!

If our story will be heard on NPR, we will let you know.

The end of the month we will be heading to the ever famous (at least for RVs) Elkhart, IN to have some work done on the camper at Morryde.

The Plan, as of now, is to have the work done in Elkhart, then go to Chattanooga for the New Horizons Rally. After the Rally drive to Dallas, TX for a Bat Mitzvah. Then shoot up to NYC for our half century anniversary. Then……

Evelyn is about to turn 22 months old (and is very cute and very big). Also, Happy Birthday to Adam

Life is Super on the Roan Road…

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Bet you thought we fell Off the edge of the Earth (Clermont, FL)

Nothing earth shattering to report. We have been sitting around Clermont for a while, just taking part in the many activities this campground offers. Our Disney passes are up, so no more trips to Disney for us.

We did drive up to New York for Christmas and to see the family and the doctors. But since our plans are etched in Jello, we cancelled the doctors, shortened our NY stay and headed back to Florida. In March we will head to Atlanta to do the doctor thing. Atlanta is more centrally located for us.

While in NY we did got to see Jay, Heidi, Andrew, Caroline and of course, Evelyn.