We spent a night at a truck stop with the big boys. I feel very save surrounded by these rigs.

A view from the top

We did some hiking in the badlands and had to climb this ladder.

The Badlands South Dakota

Mount Rushmore

This is what Crazy Horse will look like when finished.
Bruce and I feel this is a very ambitious project
The sculptor died in 1982 ans 7 of his 10 children and his wife are completing it.
It is being sculpted in Black Hills South Dakota.
Sculptor Korczak Zionlkowski was asked to sculpt it by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear.
"My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes, too."

Snow caps in Wyoming

Chillaxing after a hard day driving

June 8th Bruce and I celebrate 35 years. It's official, Arcadia is sold. We got a decent price and as it stands now, we will bring her down to NYC in the fall where they will take her back to FL. They are changing her name to Betty Lou. I get to keep the rug with Arcadia on it. I cried!! But time to move on to new adventures.

On June 15 th Bruce and I flew to Whidbey Island Washington to pick up our new motor home.
I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the coach is. We bought it sight unseen, except for photos on E Bay, I was still a little nervous. I know pictures are worth a thousand words but I was anxious to see for myself.

Our first camp ground was in Ellensburg WA. Along the way we saw this Wild Horses Monument. The Wild Horses Monument is a piece of roadside art along I-90 in the deserts of Central Washington on a bluff above the East side of the Columbia River. The monument pays tribute to the wild mustangs who roamed these areas in days past. The wild horses, which are made of welded steel plates, are the work of Spokane artist David Govedare.

Interesting thought

Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Home Sweet Home!!!

Arcadia arrived back in Ithaca on May 5th 2009. After 4812 and almost 10 months. We've been as far north as Machinaw Island Michigan and as the far south as La Belle Florida. Completing America's Great Loop was really cool. We had crossed our own wake in the Gulf, but making it back to Ithaca where we had started last year on July 19th 2008, turned out to be even more exciting.

We'll be here now for the summer, enjoying all that I love about Ithaca and being with my kids and granddaughters.

Who knows what will happen in the fall. As Bruce always says," that's too far away to worry about now".

May 5, 2009 Arriving Home

This is the inlet to Cayuga Lake from Ithaca and the Treman Marina. The two towers on the hill are dorms at Ithaca College.



This is Mud Lock or Lock 1 on the Cayuga Seneca Canal System. There are only four locks that get you from Cayuga Lake to Seneca Lake. We've gone over there a couple of times. This time we just kept heading south down Cayuga Lake to Treman Marina where Arcadia lives in the summer.

These are remains of the original canal system.

This is some of the debris that we need to watch out for in the canal. Luckily this was off to the side. Sometimes it collects either at the entrance to the lock chamber or as we are exiting the chamber. Not good for props!!!