After 4 months on the road I made it to the California this month. It has been a life long goal to make a coast-to-coast trip, though I thought it might be on a motorcycle or a convertible in a couple weeks per the books and movies I’ve seen. But doing it with a moving 23,000 pound RV towing a Honda CRV is an entirely different scenario!
It wasn’t a straight-line trip, but more a zigzag trip across the southeast to the southwest portion of the country. I visited states I’d never been to (Alabama and Mississippi), stayed in a variety of camp settings (from a lavish beachfront RV resort to an empty desert site) and had the chance to re-connect with old friends and make a few new ones along the way. Once you set up your RV, pull the chairs out, light a fire (if it’s permitted), you have the chance to greet and talk with your fellow RVers. They span the gamut from fellow baby boomers making the most of their post-work life, to young families homeschooling their kids across the country. It’s incredible how the technology of the modern RV and the pervasiveness of wireless Internet (be it cellular or a lucky strong WiFi signal) can replicate basically everything you have at home (or as us RVers say, at our ‘sticks & bricks’J)
I was born and raised in Los Angeles and went to college in Santa Cruz, so it’s been fun reacquainting myself with these places after decades away from them. The mountain, the breeze coming through canyons, the winding coast and amazing beaches – just a fantastic place to spend time. Though the weather this winter has been unseasonably cold and rainy, I learned to take advantage of the clear blue sky days where pottering around a town, or taking long walks in along the coastline have provided some fantastic excursions during the trip.
Next week I’m back to the desert, spending a week in Las Vegas before returning to Arizona. March is here and I am marching my way slowly back to the East Coast….
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