And that's a wrap!

Here we are on New Year's Eve... when I pull together pictures for our Christmas letter, I look over our year and enjoy again all the things we have done. Here's a bit of a recap:

Our travel map for 2023 -- starting in Florida, working our way up the east coast all the way to Newfoundland, then heading west to Illinois, then south to Texas, ending up in Arizona. A total of 74 stops in the motorhome for the year.

According to our Garmins, we put 10,291 miles on Gracie and 6,426 miles on the Jeep during the year. I am a little surprised at the relatively low mileage for the Jeep. Gracie gains miles between stops, and the Jeep gets miles driving around when we're staying in a place for a few days. I guess we stayed put more when we stopped at a campground or traveled to places closer to the campground than we may normally do. Note: in case you're interested, the odometer on the Jeep does *not* count miles when the Jeep is being towed.

We added to our "visited" list: several northeastern states -- New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont -- as well as Canadian provinces -- New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Ontario. Later in the year we added middle America states: Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We almost got all three in one stop as we stayed in a casino parking lot near the point where the three states join - but we stayed in Kansas on that stop and stayed in other places in Missouri and Oklahoma. 

In general, a state or province goes onto the map when we've visited it and spent the night in it in Gracie (our motorhome). Note though, I do have Dominican Republic indicated as "visited" - we went there in November, 2022 - without Gracie.

Of the 48 contiguous states, we have only Kentucky and Colorado left to visit - we don't have specific plans on visiting either of those in 2024. We do have a plan to take an RV trip to visit Alaska in the summer of 2024 -- no plans to take Gracie to Hawaii though!

We also took a transatlantic cruise in April, 2023, visiting the Azores, Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy.

 

Obviously these stops did *not* include Gracie!

In case you would like to see the PDF of our Christmas 2023 letter, I think I have shared it with anyone who has the link via Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-3CmO26kpsd1-cYnAxby0HaGbXy7ehu5/view?usp=sharing