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08-26-2016, 05:08 AM
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So, where will you be wintering this year?
Just thought it would be fun to hear where some fellow snowbirds are heading to for the winter.
The DW and I will be heading for the southwest. We don't plan too far ahead, but we do know we'll be spending some time in Fredericksburg TX, Las Cruces NM, Sierra Vista AZ, Cottonwood AZ, maybe Page AZ again. Then on the return trip, anything goes. We'll plan that route depending on the weather. We have had to change course to avoid storms of all kinds.
Who knows, maybe we'll meet somewhere along the line. Hope so!
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08-26-2016, 06:18 AM
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Yep, it is coming close to that time again. We are leaving for a west coast and Canadian swing next week, but will be headed back to Florida the week after Thanksgiving. We would try the southwest, but the DW can't seem to figure out where the beach is.....
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08-26-2016, 08:00 AM
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Apache Junction, AZ
November thru March......
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08-26-2016, 08:17 AM
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Hopefully spending some time in my shop finishing my El Camino and then down to the Tucson area for an incredible meal at the Guadalajara Original Grill on Prince and time on the beach with no water.
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08-26-2016, 08:51 AM
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It's a tough life, but we force ourselves to summer at the Jersey Shore and winter on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Ohhh the sacrifices we make in retirement.
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08-27-2016, 12:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hankpage
It's a tough life, but we force ourselves to summer at the Jersey Shore and winter on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Ohhh the sacrifices we make in retirement.
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No doubt it's tough, but someone has to do it!
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08-29-2016, 02:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by notanlines
Yep, it is coming close to that time again. We are leaving for a west coast and Canadian swing next week, but will be headed back to Florida the week after Thanksgiving. We would try the southwest, but the DW can't seem to figure out where the beach is.....
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Plenty of "beach" in the southwest... just not much water
I can't wait to become one of the retired... my company just laid off ~5500 and I was hoping for an offer to retire... no such luck.
Once it happens though, I plan to spend a lot of time touring the good ole USA.
-Brian
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09-01-2016, 08:46 PM
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The trip to Fredricksburg was amazing right after the 2015 storms there was miles of rvs scattered along the river . The 3 twisted sisters is a bike ride. DF and I normally take Q in az cheap BLM camping for the RV jamboree. The Parker resort is on the agenda for 2017.
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09-01-2016, 08:57 PM
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The Rat Rally was going in Austin that next week end but poor old texas was getting ready for another Hurricane. the pic was at fredericksburg Texas.
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09-03-2016, 08:19 AM
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Leaving Oct 20th and travelling down thru the Zion Park area for 3 weeks then we will settle at Golden Village Palms in Hemet CA for 4 months this will be our 3rd winter there
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10-22-2016, 04:21 PM
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Re: So, where will you be wintering this year?
Had to change our plans. Originally we were going to Rancho California but the guy who had promised to have a site for us backed out (at the last minute and I hope karma bites him hard) so we are now going to Sunlake RV Resort in El Centro, CA. Their web site looks great.
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09-03-2016, 02:58 PM
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Oct 9th head out for SW Florida with Quilt Shop stops in Hamilton, MO and Paducah KY. Four nights at Fort deSoto to enjoy the beach and then set up inland from Ft Myers, near LaBelle for the winter. Will holiday for two weeks in Feb in the Keys at Long Key SP then back to our base outsde of LaBelle until mid April. We don't "do" Ontario winter weather very well any more!
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09-05-2016, 09:38 AM
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Arcadia, Florida November to April
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09-05-2016, 06:05 PM
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Fort Pierce. Fla. = Nov. 1st. to Mar. 1st..
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09-06-2016, 03:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tbristol
Arcadia, Florida November to April
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My fiancee said she has been to Arcadia visiting her cousin. I checked good sam for camping there rates where close to 100 a night at Arcadia .
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09-06-2016, 04:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by roadglide
My fiancee said she has been to Arcadia visiting her cousin. I checked good sam for camping there rates where close to 100 a night at Arcadia .
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There 5 Rv parks in the Arcadia area. Some are very expensive some are not. All of them the rates are cheaper for more months you stay. The place we stay is 2200.00 for 5 months. I don't know what any of them charge per night. I think 100 sounds kinda high though. Even for the expensive place.
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09-07-2016, 12:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tbristol
There 5 Rv parks in the Arcadia area. Some are very expensive some are not. All of them the rates are cheaper for more months you stay. The place we stay is 2200.00 for 5 months. I don't know what any of them charge per night. I think 100 sounds kinda high though. Even for the expensive place.
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I looked again for that 100 a night rv park at Arcadia but only seen Good Sams reasonable priced.
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10-26-2016, 05:13 PM
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Re: So, where will you be wintering this year?
Alpine : No, we did not stay at Rancho California but we did visit it in March of this year. That is when we made an agreement to rent space #8 for five months. We did not put any money down and we had been told we did not need to. Our brother-in-law did reserve a site but a few months later it was sold out from under him. Contract did allow that to happen. He was able to get another site but we no longer trust the Park so we are going on down south.
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10-12-2016, 09:07 PM
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Location: Medford, OR
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Re: So, where will you be wintering this year?
Not exactly "snowbirding" but we will be in Tucson for a couple weeks in February, We've never been, we have no idea what it will be like. We do know someone who transferred down there for work, so we will at least have a contact.
We will be staying in the KOA just because it was easy to make advance reservations. We're in Southern Oregon, so we plan 2 over nights to get there and then however many we feel like on the way back (I tend to be "horse back to barn" on the way home).
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10-21-2016, 04:57 AM
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Re: So, where will you be wintering this year?
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Originally Posted by Mandolin
Not exactly "snowbirding" but we will be in Tucson for a couple weeks in February, We've never been, we have no idea what it will be like.
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My guess is.......... you'll love it.
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