Tinkerbell's Travels

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And We’re Off!

Hitting the dusty trail at 9AM! Thank you to George and Helen Cates for a great photo to capture the historic moment!

September 5, 2022

Finally. After months of repairs (mostly generator and tires), Tinkerbell is seaworthy and we hit the road this morning! While repairs caused us to cancel our initial maiden voyage (to MN, ND, MT, and OR), we were tickled pink to be able to snag a last-minute, 10-day reservation in Coronado Island on the Silver Strand Beach! One of our happiest places on Earth to camp!

Next blog will feature the campsite 🙂

This one is the trip over from Tucson to San Diego. Happy to say: completely uneventful. Smooth. No issues whatsoever. Yay!

For lunch we had our Grandson Quinn’s (and Grandma Linda’s) favorite sandwich: a fluffer nutter! Which is peanut butter and marshmallow cream on white bread with nacho cheese Doritos! We had to pick just the right entree to warrant our dessert: ever since our first road trip, more than 22 years ago, we have had a Hostess Snowball as a fun, sweet, completely unexplainable way to kick off the first leg of every road trip. The tradition continues. And we’ve introduced it to many of our road-tripping friends!

Jay and I split the ceremonial travel Hostess Snowball while Ziggy watched in confusion… a pink snowball in Yuma, AZ? At a certain age, you’re old enough to know better but also old enough to know that joys in life make life worth living. A snowball to kick off every road trip isn’t going to kill us. And if it does, our family and friends will have one hell of a good script for a Hallmark Channel tearjerker
The big boys sat up front, during the 6 hour drive, helping Jay drive the bus…
Jay waved to other bus drivers on I-8, thoroughly enjoying sitting in the Captains Chair and steering his land yacht
While Frankie stayed safe behind the couch, far away from any possible projectiles
Eventually he came out of his safe space and took in the views with the other boys
And we have arrived at Fiddlers Cove RV Park on the Silver Strand of Coronado!!🎉
Ziggy is a darn good navigator!

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