A two year North American full time motorhome adventure!

Our motorhome Sherman, at age 21 is starting to show some signs of wear and tear. We think that he's still got lots of life left in him yet though! And with less than 100,000 miles on the chassis, we still believe that he's got enough motivation in him to take us on a two year North American motorhome adventure!

And so this is the plan...

Sherman is currently in storage at our daughter's house near Ottawa. We fly back there on September 26th, and we'll spend some time with family and friends (and getting Sherman ready for his adventure!) before heading to Barbados on October 25th for a 19 day "vacation".

When we return to Ottawa on November 13th, we will hop in the motorhome and take off almost right away!

We've got about seven weeks to make our way from Ottawa to Laredo, Texas. We've got a few stops to make along the way to visit friends, and we may be taking a flight somewhere during that time as well. That'll be a surprise, if it comes together!

Then in January, February, and March we will be doing our Mexico RV caravan, returning to Laredo around April 2nd.

We'll then take a month to get back up here to Cabri. We're planning on leaving some things behind, so we'll be able to pick them up then.

From there, we're heading north! For those of you who have been paying attention, we've mentioned a couple of times here that the first year we don't work during the summer, we're headed up to Yukon and Northwest Territories!

There's a new road being built over the last four years. It takes you from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk and the Arctic Ocean. And it's supposed to be open this fall. We want to be on it next summer so that we can be among the first to drive right up to the Arctic Ocean in Canada!

Year one, approximate route!

Leading into year two, we will come back south, taking a detour into Alaska (just to say we've been there) and then explore some of British Columbia for a couple of months. I've got many cousins and still some aunts and one uncle left and we haven't seen most of them since 2006.

We'll then enter the U.S. at Washington and Oregon and head back to Laredo. Now, we don't know for sure about this, but if this RV caravan thing works out well, we would probably do another one in January through April 2019. If not, we would likely still go to Mexico.

Interspersed with this will be some flying... one or two week "vacations" along the way!

After Mexico 2019, we want to take the motorhome to Newfoundland!

Year two, approximate route.

Once again stopping to see friends along the way, we would make our way to Newfoundland, spending the summer of 2019 on "the rock". Always ready for some adventure, we want to exit the rock north to Labrador and go to Goose Bay, where my father worked as a radio operator for a short time back in the 1950's. I remember at our house as a kid, he had a pennant flag on the door to the basement cold storage that said Goose Bay, Labrador. I don't know why, but I've always wanted to go there.

And then back to Ottawa for the end of September 2019.

What do you think? Can Sherman do a two year adventure covering 40,000 kms (25,000 miles)? I bet he can. After all, it's only 55 kms (34 miles) per day! A lot of people drive that just going to work and back each day!

There's going to be lots of scenery, hiking, and exploring during that two years. And probably some mishaps and adventure along the way!

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