Our current trip left Columbus Ohio in early November (after helping all the doctors with their Mercedes payments) wandering down to Charlotte, North Carolina to visit my father's old girlfriend who is now in a retirement home. From there it was down to Columbia, South Carolina, and on to Augusta, Georgia. We made a diversion to Atlanta, Georgia to have another treatment done on Lori's eye before heading south to Florida because Atlanta was just too cold. So far in Florida we stayed in Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, and looped south through the northern part of Orlando before heading north to Lake City until the end of January. Current goals are Pensacola, visiting Calloway Gardens during the peak of the azalea season, and getting back to Columbus, Ohio by mid April to again help the doctors with another Mercedes payment. Photos of our current travels are posted almost daily on the Instagram feed @RambleJohn
This site is planed as a work in progress. After retiring in 2006, we started sending reports back to the wonderful lady that had always watched the house while we traveled. Unfortunately Ruth Lambert is no longer with us so the major incentive for the reports is also gone and sending color copies to all our friends and relatives does start to get rather expensive hence this more convenient website presentation. As in our rambling, the reporting tended to be rather erratic and although it only got into 2010 it was reaching 300 pages and filling two 2 inch notebooks. That puts me six years behind and four years to convert so its going to take considerable time if ever to get everything posted.
This first iteration covers our travels in 2006. I will try to get about a year a quarter depending on how much time I can break free.
We retired in mid 2006 and decided to wander the USA to actually see what it really looks like. In some 40 years of actually working for a living John has had extensive travel but rare opportunities to see an area. Usually it's dark going into the plant and dark coming out so most of the scenery is the inside of a plant, motel room, or restaurant. Actually in the last six months before retirement John put in two 34 hour days; ya walk into the plant and walk out 34 hours later. So we sold the house and the majority of the "stuff" and are now OLD (medicare recipients), UNEMPLOYED (retired), HOMELESS (not destitute), and enjoying the nomad lifestyle. NO! we don't have an RV; we sold the house, we're not driving it. We have a two tents to camp when we want, but mostly motel camp. Staying a week or a month tends to be economical most places and we are definitely budget travelers. Look for us where its warm but not real hot with a reasonable cost of living.