Come on along with me as I take my dream trip of a lifetime. 

After working for more than 40 years, I retired December 31, 2001.

 

1961-1969          Greyhound Corporation

1969-1974   Marriott Corporation

1974-2001          Montgomery County Department of Finance

 

In November 2001, I purchased my 30 foot Airstream Land Yacht for some serious traveling. 

 

            

 

 

 

 

My plan is to travel to Alaska, via Florida, Texas, and California.  I will return through Nebraska and Iowa,  the only two states that I have never been to (besides Hawaii).

 

Then I will head back North through Wisconsin, take a ferry across Lake Michigan, cross Michigan and back into Canada to visit Toronto and Montreal before heading back to Maryland in October 2002.

 

Here are some pictures of the interior of my Airstream:

 

 

                          

        Looking from front to rear                                                         Bedroom

 

           

 

Looking forward thru windshield                                   Galley                                                   Bathroom

 

 

 

I am leaving on the morning of Monday, April first, 2002.

Briefly, my itinerary includes crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and traveling down the Eastern Shore of Maryland through Easton, Cambridge and Salisbury, spending the first night just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.  Then I will be going to Jamestown, Virginia, Williamsburg and Yorktown and Virginia Beach.

I will travel down the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Myrtle Beach, then Charleston, SC; Savannah, Georgia and into Florida.

In Florida I will spend a couple days in Saint Augustine, before going on to Walt Disney World.  My base there will be at Fort Wilderness campground.  From there I intend to go to The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, MGM Studios and the Animal Kingdom as well as River Country, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach and Pleasure Island, The West Side and the Boardwalk.  After a week in DisneyWorld, I will spend a couple days at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure and City Walk, then on to Seaworld and finally wrap up my stay in Orlando with a trip to Splendid China. 

Then its on to the Gulf Coast with a stop at Manatee Springs and the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.  Then on to Mobile, Alabama to see Bellingrath Gardens and the USS Alabama.  Stopping along the Mississippi Riviera (Gulfport and Biloxi) before going into New Orleans.  From New Orleans I will go to New Iberia, Louisiana, a small town founded by my great-great-great-great grandfather.  After a night in Lafayette, I will enter Texas with stops at Galveston, Houston, Dallas, Abilene, Monahan Hills and Pecos.  Then into New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns, back to El Paso, TX, then across New Mexico and Arizona into Southern California.  A week at San Diego to see the San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park and Sea World, then up to Anaheim, for Disneyland, California Adventure and Knotts Berry Farm.  Dinner one nighth aboard the Queen Mary at Long Beach, then up Highway 1 with a stop at Hearst Castle, Muir Woods, Santa Cruz.  Only a brief stop in San Francisco to see Alcatraz, then across the Golden Gate bridge and up to Bodega Bay with a side trip to St Helena to see my brother, Earl.

Continueing on up the coast into Oregon and Washington State, ending up at Olympic National Park before crossing the San Juan Strait into Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

A stop at Butchart Gardens and Miniature world then on up top Nanimo before crossing over to Vancouver, Hope, Prince George and Dawson Creek.  That’s where the Alaska Highway begins.  Following the Alaska Highway up to Whitehorse in the Yukon, then even further north to Dawson City, before taking the rugged Top of the World Highway to Wade Junction, Alaska. 

In Alaska, I plan to visit, Chicken, Tok, Delta Junction, Fairbanks, Denali National Park, Anchorage, Homer, Valdez and Haines.  In Haines I plan to board the ferry on the Alaska Marine Highway down to Juneau.  After a few days in Juneau, I will continue down the marine highway to Prince Rupert, British Columbia.  From there I will follow the Yellowhead Highway all the way to Edmonton, Alberta, then down to Calgary and back into the United States on I-15 in Montana.  Then through Yellowstone National Park; Grand Teton National Park and into Salt Lake City, before heading East across the prairie through Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, then up through Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario and Quebec, entering the US again on I-87 in New York State, back down through the Adirondaks; The Catskills and the Poconos, spending the last night in Hazelton, Pennsylvania before arriving back in Columbia, Maryland on about October 4.