Thursday, May 2, 2013

Kim n Dede that's us!  We've laid out our itinerary to get from Florida to California by January 2014. We're going to wander through Florida, then stop back up in Hilton Head, SC to check in with our friends (and mechanic) and then meander down Rt. 10 to LosAngeles, CA. 


Why are we going? to see Rachel & Jordan and live near the grandbabies! And because we can!

What's our address? You can always send stuff to us at Kim's mom's house, which is our "permanent address" while we travel:
     Kim Halter & Dede Ondishko
     18675 US HW 19N, Lot 225
     Clearwater, FL 33764
When stuff arrives, she'll forward it to us periodically. You can always email us, call or Skype!

At the end of March we finished our stay in Dade City, FL, where we have stayed three months as work campers at http://travelersrestresort.com/ (working about 8-14 h/w) We've enjoyed the music community & the orange blossoms, and being close to Kaye-Mom in Clearwater (about an hour), my Dad during his visit and my brother, Chris and niece, Nina. We left the car and the trailer there while we explore FL.  Big discovery: kumquat pie. (More on this in my next post!)

We start APRIL 2013 in Ft. Myers, FL, staying one month at http://www.sunrvresorts.com/indiancreek.html

Then May 3 we travel to Naples, FL and stay one month at
http://www.sunrvresorts.com/clubnaples.html

Then in June we move around a lot!
June 4th(My birthday!) we're at Homestead FL: http://www.sunrvresorts.com/goldcoaster.html
staying for one week. (I want to put a backpack on and take the scooter down the keys!)

June 11th we go to Titusville, FL and stay at http://www.tgoresort.com/
for four nights. sweet!

June 15th we come back here to Dade City and pick up the car n trailer. We stay in Williston, FL at http://willistoncrossingrv.com/

At the end of June we'll leave the car n trailer in storage somewhere on Interstate 10 and head up to Hilton Head, SC to say hi! and bye! to our friends. Come visit!!!!  We'll be at our beautiful luxury resort where we lived for five years: http://www.hiltonheadmotorcoachresort.com/

From here Dede will fly north to be at the Britton Family Reunion in PA (June 28 weekend).

Then the serious travel starts! 
We repeat last year's drive out to Gulf Shores, AL to stay again at the beautiful resort we found last summer. We look forward to seeing the friends we made last year! http://www.bellaterrarvresort.com/
We plan to work camp for about 5 weeks while we're here. (So let's see, this means we'll have worked part-time about 4 months for the year. Weird!)

San Antonio, TX is our August 11th destination.
http://www.carefreervresorts.com/rv-parks/texas/travelers-world/

Finally we'll arrive in Mesa, AZ around September 9th to stay FOUR MONTHS at a beautiful location:
http://www.cal-am.com/resorts/resorts_details.php?resorts_id=16
I've transferred my teaching license to AZ to I can teach once we get there.

So the fun part is while we were in Dade City we made a music demo and we're going to send it ahead to the places where we'll be and see if they'd like any entertainment! That will help us hook up with local musicians and keep on jammin' down the road!

JANUARY 2014 we're looking at places near LA. We have about 10 places we'll choose from. Oh yeah, we might have to work camp when we get there. We don't know how long we'll stay. We hope we like it and we hope they like us!

I promise I'll put more pictures in next post!