Lucy's first post

On June 5th, 2015 at approximately 10:00 a.m. we left our home for our Alaska adventure.  Our first stop was the Jelly Belly store.  We picked up some gifts for family we plan to visit in Alaska.  

Medford Oregon was our first stop at Costco for gas.

We drove and drove till 12:45 a.m..  We spent the night at Smokey Rest Stop in Washington.  The rest stop was clean, big, green, large trees, and free coffee provided by a volunteer group.  They had a free RV dump station and water refill.

Almost ready to go....

Hi all,

Well, we started loading Gulliver and cleaning the house at the same time.  It made for a long day!  We are just about all loaded up and will be heading out tomorrow. Not sure if it will the 9am start time I was hoping for but it will be in the morning.

So I promised earlier to show a video of the inside of Gulliver.  Being that it is late and I've been loading for several hours, it is a short video. It is surprising how much stuff that we are trying to load.  Five people for 8 weeks means a lot of clothes and stuff.  Being new to long term RVing, we are probably over packing but better to have it and not need it....etc.

Wow, learn something new everyday.  This blog site only allows 100mb videos.  So, I had to trim down the video I was going to upload.  Because, really, I am too tired to go shoot another one!  So it will start in the middle of the video, sorry about that.

Well, that is it for tonight.

Good Night and safe travels,

Gordon

Hi all,

Not much more to report.  Took Gulliver in for a tune-up at the Ford Dealer.  Everything looked good.

Finished putting the sound/heat barrier underneath Gulliver.  It was a tight fit but I managed to get into some small spaces.  Put the barriers under all the wheel wells.  Hope that it cuts down on the noise and insulates a bit.  Here are some pictures showing the front wheel space.

After reading the "Gone with the Wynn's" blog, we joined Harvest Host.  It's a group that let's you boondock on a farm, winery or museum.  It looks real fun and we are looking at trying out some of the locations.  Here is the link to the Harvest Host Web Site

That's all for now....

Safe Travels

First post

Hi all,

This blog will follow the adventures of Gulliver, a 32 foot Winnebago Vista and it's brave crew: Gordon and Lucy, our kids Alex, Devon, Nancy and Leia the Labradoodle.  We are from Vacaville, California and will be heading to Alaska via Canada in June 2015.

Leia

The Brave Crew

Gulliver 

 Lucy and Alex will be writing some of the blogs too.

Anyway, we have less than two months until were off.  We have most of the route planned and reservations made. We plan on crossing into Canada at Sumas and making our way to Laird Hot Springs and then onto Fairbanks.  After Fairbanks, we will visit some family in Wasilla.  Of course, that's just the start.

We have been working on Gulliver.  Put in a Dirt Devil central Vac that I found on Amazon.  It works great and it was east to install.   It has an expandable hose that reaches the entire interior of the RV.

 We put in some extra storage containers around the inside.  We are also putting heat/sound barriers to the underside of Gulliver, to make it quieter and more temperature stable.   This work is harder and will take a few more weeks to finish.   Almost forgot to mention the full size Dometic porcelain toilet we put in.  It was surprisingly east to install.

Lucy made this Gulliver Avatar, so we can take Gulliver with us on our hikes and other adventures.

Gulliver avatar

When we are ready to head out, we will give a video tour of Gulliver.

We are always open to good advice and suggestions from our fellow RVers.  Thanks to the folks on iRV2 for the good advice and all the experience being shared.

By the way, the photo at the very top is Gulliver at the Point Arena Lighthouse parking lot.