VEHICLE: Your travel vehicle must be ready for travel. How new are the tires? We have six new tires on the motorhome for this trip. We installed a new water pump, new hoses, and new batteries. Our dash air conditioner was replaced and the motorhome air conditioner also, especially since our travel will be in the American Southwest. In fact, we even have a new refrigerator. We insulated the ceiling with a thick lining for insulation and added new shelves to store all the computer gear.

ITINERARY: Gather as many maps ahead of time as possible. Each state has a tourist spot on the internet to get more info. Many states will send you brochures and maps from their internet site. We had to plan our itinerary to match the sites we wanted to see: Native American sites, geologic sites, rivers and lakes, historic sites. Also, we had to plan our itinerary to match campgrounds that have internet access available to campers, with local numbers on an internet service provider so no long distance bills were incurred.

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The Internet site Campgrounds with Internet Access has many suggested campgrounds to try on your travels.

We have found the following campgrounds have modem access in our travels. We appreciate the managers/owners help at these sites in providing us access.

Cherokee KOA in Cherokee, NC - access in adult game room, unlimited

Nashville KOA in Nashville, TN - used the office upstairs

Hot Springs KOA in Hot Springs, Ark - access in game room

Carlsbad RV Park in Carlsbad, NM - used office phone access

More to be added as we find them.

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Here are some of our favorite menus to use when traveling in the motorhome, usually using a Coleman two-burner campstove with skillets or a griddle.

BREAKFAST

Pancakes and Sausage Corned Beef and Fried Canned Potatoes

Bagels and Cream Cheese Canned Hominy with eggs and Cheese

Fried Span or Treet Cereal with fruit

Toasted Pop Tarts Egg Burrito with fried canned potatoes

LUNCH

Pita Sandwiches Fresh or canned fruit and cottage cheese

Tuna or chicken salad Cheese and crackers with local fruit

SUPPER (add canned vegetables or fresh salad or fresh coleslaw)

Hamburger Helper Steak and fried potatoes with onions

Chicken breasts and rice Chicken frajitas and instant rice

Chili with gr. beef/beans Canned chow mein, adding chicken and noodles,rice

Beef tacos with rice Chicken breasts with vegetables on noodles

TREATS

sour cream with refried beans and hot peppers on taco chips

raw carrots and raw green pepper

If you have a favorite camping meal, send it to the explorers and we'll add it here.

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