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We headed to NJ and Pennsylvania to see a reenactment of George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas day which he did in 1776. But before I get into that, on October 26th while recording the last episode, a package was delivered to the house. I did not want to interrupt the recording so I didn't check what the delivery was. It was our surge protector from progressive Industries so it took them less than a week to mail us a replacement with no email no notification no nothing except a new progressive Industries 30 amp EMS portable protector for our rig. Yay. This is our third surge protector albeit we only paid for 1. Here’s a link to our surge protector https://amzn.to/3EBd1Hw

John and Kathy Huggins in the later episodes of their podcast Living the RV Dream, often mentioned having a 'exit plan'. Plan ahead of time, to know when it's time to leave the road, when to part with your RV and where to live when the times arises. I'm sure I couldn't do that.
But we met wonderful folks in Vermont who are facing that bittersweet time and are contemplating their fairwell trip.
My hats off to them.
I think if I were in that position now, I would make plans for an epic trip but knowing I would never actually take that trip knowing it's my final trip. I would rather sit and plan of the 'someday' trip.

So we I have been home for a while with the rig and we have no other trips planned anytime soon. The leveling system is working great ! It was a $1,000 fix but they are working better than ever. When we first this thing a year ago, it would not level itself automatically. No matter è many times I recalibrated it. Now it works better than ever. Yay.
So now we're felling trees and splitting wood for the wood stove. Spending time with my grandson Maverik.
Tweaking things on the rig and our stone and mortar house.
We took delivery of our 2022 Skidoo Grand Touring Limited 2 up snowmobile. So hopefully we will be doing day trips and some overnight trips with the RV towing the sled. We plan on staying in the promised land State Park in Pennsylvania. And we found a private campground in New Hampshire that's open year-round and is convenient to snowmobile trails. Here's a video of our sled (snowmobile) https://youtu.be/TZY_D30GId4
I also returned to yoga classes this time in Goshen NY. It really helps me relax and loosen up my arthritic joints.
Also I am updating the website making it a little easier to navigate. Adding links to discounts for you folks at
relaxrv.org/discounts
Also adding books on my recommended RVing book page
Relaxrv.org/books

And I added a new blog to my website. It's titled "Health Problems Related to Stress". Here's a link to it:
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When you visit the page click on the "follow" link to be notified when I add a blog.

Now let's talk about George Washington. We booked a Boondockers Welcome location not far from there. We stayed here when we visited Princeton NJ. They have FULL hook-ups with 50amp. During our last stay here, I was talking to our host about this reenactment. It had been on my list for a couple of years to see. So this conversation really whetted my appetite. And Trish's aunt and cousins invited us to Christmas eve and Christmas dinner at their places which isn't far away. So with all the plans made in the rig winterized we went out turned on our refrigerator and freezer. Turned on the heat tape and tank heating pads. And filled up the fresh water tank. We also started up the hot water heater. Next we flushed out the antifreeze that was in any of the lines. There wasn't much because I only put antifreeze into the outdoor kitchen and the outdoor shower. However to get the antifreeze there it didn't run through the lines. Once that was done I blew out the lines with air except for the the outdoor kitchen and shower. I had put in a automatic stop valve where the lines enter the outdoor kitchen and the outdoor shower so this way those fixtures are protected with antifreeze and we won't be using them in the winter.
Then on Christmas Eve morning we fired up the rig hooked up the Jeep and headed south to see family and the reenactment. Here's a link to the reenactment website. https://www.washingtoncrossingpark.org/cross-with-us/

We left Orange County NY and took Rt 206 all the way down. According to the GPS it was 10 minutes longer than the Garden State parkway but has NO tolls. And NO traffic so it was actually faster than the highway. We now love taking local roads.
I had been fighting a bug for awhile so we weren't sure if this trip was going to happen. But here we are on the road.
We arrived at our boondockers welcome location, got set up and headed over to the D&R canal for a 4 mile walk. Then drove over to aunt and for Christmas Eve dinner. Then back to the rig. Christmas morning we had breakfast at the rig. Then to Pennsylvania for the reenactment. The actors did a great job at reliving Washington's famous crossing across the Delaware River. They do two crossings a year both in December. George Washington did it on Christmas day so that's the one we wanted to see. A great turnout. The reenactment was wonderful but the narration could have been tweaked a little bit better. But it was a really nice thing to do on a Christmas Day especially for American revolution history buffs. We were surprised at how little of the history is still at the location of Washington's launch. And we were equally surprised at how much there was on the New Jersey side at Washington's landing.
We did some walking around the 2 sites.
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey.
Here are pictures of the reenactment:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CX8zf4cur8i/?utm_medium=copy_link

Then had sushi dinner in Princeton as there was a family member who had contact with someone who has Covid. I was just getting over a 5 week long viral illness and we didn't want to risk infection. So after dinner back to the rig for a relaxing evening.
Then the next morning we packed up. Dumped our tanks at our boondockers welcome location and headed home.

At this point we have been members of Boondockers Welcome and Harvest Hosts for over 3 years. Here's our total stays for each:
Nights locations
BDW 207 95
HH 18 16
Here’s a link to my discounts page with links to both memberships: Relaxrv.org/discounts