Week 3, Fredericksburg, VA

Dead Horse Hill, Fredericksburg Battlefield (Lee Drive)

Week three is almost a repeat of the last two weeks.  Donna continues to visit and help her friends & Mary Washington Hospital cohorts while I shuttle her around and try to do the impossible - keep the leaves off the trailer to minimize leave staining.  Since we're close to a Navy Federal Credit Union branch, we've taken advantage of our time here to prepare our finances for next year's road trip to the northwest, talk with a financial planner, complete an initial interview with a nat'l park as volunteers at a visitor center next spring, and begin researching potential 2013 wintering sites on the coast of Oregon. (I'm well aware that Lewis & Clark were rained on the whole time the Corps of Discovery was there.)

Our weather here in Virginia has been exactly as expected - warm to below freezing temps with a little rain thrown in to make things interesting and keep the truck dirty.  So far we haven't had our freshwater water hose freeze, but we're running the holding tank and plumbing heaters on the cooler nights as a precaution.  We've managed to have a tree limb fall on us.  Unlike 2005, this time we took a small dent in one of the gutters and the fiberglass roof survived with no signs of even a scratch.  However, the sound of that thing hitting the roof made you think a tree had fell on us!  (For those unaware, in 2005 we had a tree limb fall on our Sunline travel trailer making a nice V-shaped dent in the front fiberglass.  By 2007, the front fiberglass was delaminating from that strike and the repair by Downtown Auto Body here in Fredericksburg took five months.)  I'm still of the opinion that if you can get away without striking a tree limb with your RV, the trees will find a way to attack you, anyway!  I don't hate trees. but I don't like being around them with a RV.

So that's our excitement for this week.  Enjoy your weekend and have a safe Thanksgiving!  Unless something happens, we plan to join the great migration south next weekend.  Later, David