The Smoky Mountain stop was our first “real adventure”.  It followed two weeks in Myrtle Beach that was more like a vacation. The RV park we stayed at was only for RVs – no bathrooms, waterslides, mini-golf and the like.  After the site compression, volume of golf carts, and sheer magnitude of human activity in Ocean Lakes in Myrtle Beach it was a welcome respite. Smoky Mountain National Park is…

Our visit in April was our RV maiden voyage and was notable because it was the official start of our new life.  On Friday March 31st Suzanne retired from the University of Rochester, on Saturday she turned 60, on Sunday we left Rochester, and on Tuesday we closed on our house of 26 years.  Suzanne thinks that “perhaps we shouldn’t have made 4 major life changes in less than a…