This spring Susan and I plan to tour the mid-west and east coast until late June.
We plan to leave home March 24 and spend that night and the 25th at Brazel's RV in Centralia, WA. We have an appointment at Brazel's for some needed maintenance on the 25th and I have a Public Disclosure Commission meeting in Olympia on the 25th as well. On the 25th Susan is planning lunch with a friend in Olympia while I attend my meeting and Brazel's does their work. If all goes well we plan to leave Centralia on the 26th of March and head east. We expect to return home by the end of June.
Our general plan is to travel pretty much directly from home across the mid-west to Abilene, KS, and and our first high point at the Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. We tend to start late and quit early so around 300 miles per day meets our definition of heading "pretty much directly" east. Our route will take us south through eastern Oregon and western Idaho turning eastward across southern Wyoming as far as Laramie, then south to Denver where we finally turn east for real.
If all goes as planned we expect to get as far east as Norfolk, VA, and then north as far as time allows, hopefully that will take us into New England. We plan to be home by the end of June. Across the midwest we plan to visit the Eisenhower, Truman, and Lincoln Presidential Libraries and Museums in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois on our way east. If we succeed in making it north far enough we hope to add the libraries of Roosevelt and Nixon in New York and Kennedy in Boston, and possibly those of Hoover and Ford in Iowa and Michigan on the way home.
In addition to the presidential libraries our plans include such places as Nashville, Paducah, KY, for the National Quilt Museum, Branson - where there is reputed to be some excellent Brown Trout fishing, Great Smokey Mountain National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, and whatever seems interesting.
NIGHT OF
March 24-25 Brazel's RV Park, Centralia, WA
March 26 Boardman Marina & RV Park, OR
March 27 Mountain View RV Park, Boise, ID
March 28 Willard Bay State Park, Willard, UT
March 29 Western Hills Campground, Rawlins, WY
March 30 Limon KOA, Limon, CO
March 31-April 1 Gunsmoke Trav-L-Park, Dodge City, KS
April 2-4 Covered Wagon RV Park, Abeline, KS (Eisenhower)
April 5-8 Lake Paradise Resort (RPI), Lone Jack, MO (Truman)
April 9-12 Treasure Lake Resort (RPI) Branson, MO
Alternate: Branson View Campground (RPI) Branson, MO
April 13-16 Honey Bend Resort (RPI),Litchfield, IL (Lincoln Museum - Illinois State Museum, St Louis, Springfield)
April 17-19 Duck Creek RV Park, Paducah, KY (National Quilt Museum)
April 20-22 Cedar Creek Campground (COE), Mt Juliet, TN (Nashville)
April 23-27 Pride RV Resort (RPI), Waynesville, NC, (Smokey Mountain Park)
April 28-May 1 Dandridge, TN (Smokey Mountains, Pigeon Forge, Dollyworld, etc)
I'm confident it will be into May when we actually get this far. From the Great Smokey Mountain Park area we expect to head north generally following the Blue Ridge Parkway as far as Front Royal, VA. From there we'll probably go south and east to Norfolk before going on to Washington, DC. This entire part of the country is rich in historic locations, battlefields, and lots of other tempting stops. We'll just wait and see where we are when we get up each morning.
