The Life and Times of Sit started on March 6th,
2013 when we left our home at 12:00 PM. I hadn’t started the travel blog, nor
had I come up with the title, but I did start keeping track of our travel
statistics.
When we left home we had 25,978 miles on “Big Red” and had
owned our fifth-wheel trailer for just about 13 months. We were pretty good in
condensing our clothes and items we wanted to have with us as we left our 2300
square foot home for our new home on wheels. We also made sure we had all of
Izzy’s toys and bed.
As we began our journey we did head to southern California
which was the furthest southwestern point. I decided to do this final post from
the four corners of our adventure rather than trying to capture all that we
saw, did, and enjoyed in one posting.
Joshua Tree National Park was a first for Izzy and me. Steve
had been there when he was young but didn’t quite remember all of it.
The most northwestern point on our journey was Port Hardy
British Columbia which is on Vancouver Island. We enjoyed the beauty, people,
climate, fishing, and golfing while we were there as well as our time in the
other parts of BC.
The most northeastern point happened to be in Canada as well
and was Cape Breton Nova Scotia. The coastline there is quite different than
the coast line in BC. The beauty was spectacular although the fishing wasn’t
quite as plentiful. We certainly can’t complain about the crab feed we had as
we ate them fresh off the boat. Well we ate them on a boat too!
The furthest southeastern point on our trip was Key West,
although we only visited it a couple of days. Our primary spot for the Florida
Keys was Marathon Florida. There we enjoyed meeting some great people, playing
golf, fishing, and having fun with Izzy! We also celebrated Christmas 2014
there with 75 degree weather. Pretty much sums up our entire trip well not
really, but one of the goals was to avoid cold weather and really hot weather.
Not a bad goal to have if you can.
Our life for two years and twenty-seven days allowed us to
travel 49,110 miles, stay in 122 towns/cities (some twice), see 34 states,
spend a week on a houseboat, and visit four Canadian Provinces. To put the
distance in perspective we could have traveled around the world twice. Maybe we
will do that next!
We truly enjoyed our time on the road and many people have
asked us, what was your favorite place, which is a challenge for us to answer.
Canada and the United States have so many wonderful places to see as well as a
tremendous amount of history to learn. Our best advice is if you have the
desire to travel around and see the country just go for it!
