Our Someday is Today: Our Journey is the Destination

We both find it difficult to not have an exact plan laid out for our travels, or honestly, for anything. Our travel trailer, an Rpod 196 is named Wander Yonder II. Wander Yonder I was our Aliner that we bought in 2016. It was very fun but didn't have a bathroom or comfortable sleeping so we decided to upgrade to our Rpod. Our grandson, Tyler, came up with the name and we liked it so much we decided to slightly modify.

When we were planning this cross country trip, we decided that we really needed to have the first week or so planned. We have things planned through this Friday at this point. It has been helpful to work out how far we want to travel each day. Three to four hours seems to be working well and gives us the opportunity to wander the backroads and see things we would miss on the interstates. So truly for this trip, our journey is the destination.

We heard about a couple of "camping clubs" that were interesting. You pay an annual fee and stay as many nights as you want for the year. Boondocker's Welcome is a club that RVers open their land or driveway for people passing through to boondock for a night or so. Generally there are no hookups. We have had two Boondocker Welcome stays so far and we love this program. Both nights have been extremely good experiences. The vistas have been incredible and incredibly quiet locations.

We awoke this morning after a restful night's sleep to sunshine and so much beauty. We took a walk around the farm and then down the road to this pretty river. If we ever pass back through this area of Kentucky, we will definitely be staying at Honeyshuck Farm.

The other club is Harvest Hosts. Wineries, Breweries, Farms, Museums and Golf Courses allow the members to boondock in their parking area. Our first Harvest Host stay is tomorrow night so we will give you a report on that later this week.

Today our wandering idea worked out beautifully. We departed Honeyshuck Farm about 8:00am and began our journey down country roads. About 45 minutes later, we came upon South Union Shaker Village. It wasn't open but we wandered about the grounds and enjoyed reading the information signs.

We traveled mostly backroads to our overnight stay for tonight, a full service KOA campground in Grayville, Illinois. Our plan is to do 2 or 3 boondocker nights and then a full service which means power, water and sewer hookups. This is a new KOA and really cute. We had fun walking around and taking advantage of the cutesy photo props.