March We have a Plan

Thumbing through a Seabourn catalog in early March, I saw that Seabourn is returning to Alaska with the Sojourn this summer. They are bringing the Ventures by Seabourn program to the Sojourn and will be offering hiking, zodiac and kayak excursions in some of the more remote areas.

After sleeping on it for a few days the idea of going back to Alaska, our favorite cruise, sailing on the Sojourn, our favorite ship, and being able to explore some of the remote areas, like Misty Fjord was to good to pass up. A call to our travel agent told us the price was also to good to pass up. So we booked the 12 day cruise round trip Vancouver, September 21 to October 3, 2017.

In Febuaury we had traded our 10 year old 27 foot motor home in for a new 27 foot ultra-lite travel trailer. The motor home had become to uncomfortable for Carolyn to travel long distances in the cab. After some study we found that her Lincoln Navigator, which is extremely comfortable for long driving trips, could pull a small trailer and better yet the new ultra lite models were well below the weight maximums for her SUV.

Well “one thing leads to another”, we had been talking about taking a camping trip back to Penticton, British Columbia, just across the Washington state border, to buy some rounds of Tiger Blue Cheese. We discovered this wonderful blue cheese on our 3 month 2009 RV trip to Alaska  (see our 2009 Alaska blog, click on About Me). We bought a wheel and have been nursing it along. It is so good!! We are out of the cheese and the company does not ship....so a RV trip to Canada was in our future.

Well “the future is now”, we need Canadian cheese and we have a around trip cruise out of Vancouver just a few hundred miles down the TransCanada Highway from the cheese maker in Penticton. Perfect, we will just take the travel trailer and camp to Vancouver, park the trailer for the 12 days then drive to get some cheese and finally head home by way of the Great Lakes.

OK, we have a plan! Now all we have to do is get the new trailer set up for camping, learn how to park it, back up with it, and plan a route for what will probably be about a six plus week trip.