Lionel and Elsie on wheels

  March 2023   In which we are reunited with Dora and head off on our big road trip.   We arrived back in Miami on the evening of 10 th March.   An Uber from the airport took us to the Intercontinental hotel where she was waiting for us.   Unfortunately, 2 months had been too long and the battery was not only flat but failed.     3 hours later and a new battery installed we were able to head off to our overnight accommodation only about 24 hours after departing Bournemouth.                                                     Good to be back in T-shirt and shorts. Although the main direction of travel was to be North and West, we had decided that it would be a shame not to take the opportunity to visit the Florida Keys, so the next morning we headed South and East.   The journey down...

For those of you new to our blog, the story of our previous travels are on lionelandelsiegosailing.blogspot.com.   Having been marooned by the Covid pandemic, we resumed our global wanderings in the Spring of 2022. It had been our intention to buy a used RV and travel round North America for a couple of years.   At a huge show that we attended back in 2019, we were warned that the first one we bought wouldn’t be the last, so it was definitely a used one to start with, but we didn’t know for sure where to start.   A luxurious home-from home would be great and we looked at ‘A’ class (size of a bus) and 5 th wheel (small articulated lorry) units.   Being more realistic, a ‘B’ Class (Van conversion) or ‘C’ Class (coach-built motorhome) would be more practical.    While we were preparing Ruby for sale, in 2020, we went round a few dealers but found that all the stock had been bought up by people who had either been laid off work or taken early retirement beca...