RVing across the U.S. with Two Dogs

This is the account of a cross-country trip that we took in the Fall of 2010  before making "aliyah", a term used to describe a Jew's returning to Israel. It is written in two voices.

Having been on the road for two whole weeks, this is the first time the stars have aligned so as to permit us to blog (it is a verb, isn't it?) Out of three computers none worked for most of the time we've been on the road.

We left Long Beach at 3:30pm on 10/22. Not long thereafter we saw a sign which said: Wilmington, NC 2554 miles. As we lived in Long Beach for four years and never saw said sign, this was more that a bit strange given that our final destination (or so we thought) was North Carolina. Sounded a bit far to say the least. In fact, downright discouraging.

As Alix has mentioned we did leave in the afternoon - we had planned on missing the morning traffic and totally forgot about the afternoon traffic. By 6pm we had gone 50 miles....Alix being Alix said "oh we can just park behind a hospital or something, or find an RV park... I on the other hand said "oh no..... we are staying in a motel.. if you think I am unpacking just when I packed you are nuts!!!!! "

So we stayed in a motel that did not allow dogs- sooo we just brought the dogs inside and pretended they were not there..... Amazing how one can delude oneself that one is following the rules. We arrived in Flagstaff on Alix's birthday and parked in a nice RV park. Unfortunately we did not do anything special for her birthday - we just took her along with us. We stayed in Flagstaff until Nov.1st. The people in Flagstaff are/were so friendly - really amazing.

 We did get very tired of 40 mile an hour winds.. over and over and over again. The first night we were there the winds were horrendous. I (naturally) sleep naked. There I am lying on the bed listening to the tornado like winds thinking if the winds increase just a little our van is going to be found several miles away with 1 naked women in it. Just the week before Flagstaff was the beneficiary of 3 tornadoes- very unusual for them. Jake, our Pekingese, did not like Arizona. He kept telling me that he was of royal lineage and should not have to walk on stones. Plus, there was NO grass on which to pee... trying to get Jake to pee on stones, rocks, weeds etc., was a great treat. Molly (our Border Collie Mix) was more mellow. She could be inspired by a weed or two. Great fun.