The Endless Summer was a surfer movie about chasing the sun around the world for the purpose of catching the perfect wave. A full year of summer sun. Here in Massachusetts we would settle for a few days of sun. It seems like we have seen nothing but rain. Halfway through the month of July we have yet to see a day in this “dry” month that didn’t have measurable rainfall. Depressing.
Partly for this reason and partly because my current campground is a disaster (I will give a full report soon), I have decided that I will begin my trek south a month early. But I won’t arrive earlier than planned; I will travel for an extra month and go out to Wisconsin, then down the Mississippi River Valley. So the seventh trip south (TS7) is shaping up to be the third-longest trip that I have taken with the RV. At 4,505 miles as currently planned (and that is certain to change) it is shorter only than the Great Trip West (GTW) in 2012 (6,184 miles) and the Second Trip East (STE) in 2017 (5,125 miles). It the truck makes this trip unscathed then I will consider taking an epic trip in the summer of 2022.
Before I leave Massachusetts I will be taking my granddaughter Liliani to Florida for 4 days (flying, of course) to see her father and Universal Studios. She is 15 and has never been on an airplane. Should be fun.