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We used our Tuesday, May 4 one day stay at Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park as a waypoint to get our pass and ID credentials for Naval Station Great Lakes access. We moved on Wednesday, May 6 to the Great Lakes Naval Base RV campground. This RV venue offers small, electric-only sites with impressive lake views and quick access to walking trails and the Metra train, making visits to Chicago a breeze. RV reviewers of this Naval Base campground frequently mention

After arrival at our campsite at Indian Point on Monday we had to make a quick turnaround and drive into Springfield, Missouri. I had an audiology appointment at 3:45 PM to be evaluated for service-connected hearing loss and tinnitus. The VA was able to set it up while we were on the road. Following that appointment we had dinner with our son-in-laws parents, Tim and Diana Edgington who live in nearby Nixa, MO. On Tuesday we had lunch at the The Keeter Center, where they offe

Our next RVICS project is in June. We have time to travel the next month and a half on our way to North Dakota. So we left Colorado behind us and drove to Kansas stopping first at the Sugar Hill Golf Course in Goodland for one night. This is a Harvest Host venue and we thought about playing a round of golf but there was a high school junior varsity golf tournament the day we arrived so we passed up the opportunity and made a $30 donation. We encountered more wind driving this

Our trip to the Caribbean with the kids was a great way to get re-energized. Now back in Smithville, it is time to get ready to leave Texas for an extended period on the road. Our first tasks to accomplish include a number of medical appointment for the two of us. A check up here and there to make sure we are good to go in the physical department. With that out of the way, we said our good-byes to the villagers and departed Smithville. This year-round, family friendly campgro

We got back from our second RVICS project on Thursday to pack for our upcoming cruise departing on Sunday. Our son Nick and granddaughters, Morgan and Grace were arriving from Sacramento on Saturday night for this week-long Royal Caribbean cruise out of Galveston. Our destinations included two days at sea before our first port of call in Roatan, Honduras, on to Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico before returning to Galveston. Our ship was the Allure of the Sea , a 225,282-gross-t

With week one completed, we all moved into our week two and three working rythyms. The women continued building the new queen beds for more of the conference center lodging venues while the men started construction of a new storage shed behind to the kitchen and dining facility. This was not some 'kit' but was constructed the old fashioned way, from the needed raw materials provided by the camp. The 12' by 18' shed would be constructed from the ground up between their covered