We’re in Albuquerque, NM tonight.
Thunderstorms threatened to dump a deluge on us, but despite the ominous signs in the sky, the weather improved and no longer seems to be a problem.
We’re going to be back in Arizona tomorrow, and back home the next day after a more than a month on the road.
Photo courtesy of Verna – click to enlarge.
On our way from Charleston, SC, to our next campsite, we impulsively made an unscheduled stop at Buc-ee’s in Brunswick, Georgia. We stopped to let the dogs do their thing and for Verna to go into the store to do some limited shopping.
After the visit, we resumed our trip for the short remaining distance to our target.
Buc-ee’s celebrated the grand opening of its newest store Tuesday in Brunswick.
The massive gas station and convenience store is at 7156 Highway 99 off Interstate 95 (exit 42).
This is the third Buc-ee’s to open in Georgia, and the largest yet in the Peach State.
Visitors were lining up hours before the 11 a.m. grand opening celebration on Tuesday.
“We got here 50th in line, so we got a free Bucky‘s T-shirt and yeah, I’ll take it!” said Lane Anderson and Landen Wade.
They were excited to visit Buc-ee’s famous wall of beef jerky selections, and said they were thrilled to have the new store so close to home.
Ahead of Tuesday’s official opening, Buc-ee’s opened its doors Friday to show its appreciation to the Glynn County Police Department, Glynn County Fire Rescue and the Emergency Management Agency, and all the first responders in the community.
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Camping near Paducah, KY:
Paducah / I-24 / Kentucky Lake KOA Journey offers a variety of camping options, including RV sites, tent sites, and cabins. The campground is located near the highways and byways of North America, offering convenience to traveling campers. According to the reviews, the campground has a quiet country setting, with beautiful views of the water from some RV sites.
The campground is close to several attractions, including Kentucky Lake, the National Quilt Museum, and the Floodwall Murals in Paducah. The reviews also mention that the campground has a fishing pond with a cool fountain that lights up at night.
We passed this southern Utah formation on our way to western Colorado. Photo by Verna. Click to enlarge.
The Mexican Hat Rock Formation is a unique geological formation located in southeastern Utah, USA. It is a remnant of a sandstone layer of the Halgaito Formation, formed from sediments deposited on a coastal plain next to a shallow seaway during Late Pennsylvanian time. The formation is a balanced rock, with a broad, flat, orange-red sandstone cap standing on a narrow pedestal of shale and siltstone, resembling an upside-down sombrero. This unique shape is due to different rates of erosion and weathering, where the softer layers of shale and siltstone were eroded faster from underneath the more resistant cap of sandstone.
This was the view in beautiful Monument Valley, Utah, where we “Glamped” overnight for a couple of nights. I say glamped because we have many of the comforts of home while away. We have satellite TV, streaming TV, Starlink internet and our laptop computers.
Glamping: A Luxury Outdoor Experience. Glamping, short for “glamorous camping,” is a type of outdoor accommodation that offers a more luxurious and comfortable alternative to traditional camping, i.e. “roughing it.”
There are other places we visited on this trip which we will post about later. Click on the image to enlarge.
Of course, the Moon has nothing to do with the title, but we are getting queued up for the first full moon of 2025 in Arizona on June 13, 2025. I took the image above this evening with my Canon SL1 set to shutter priority 1/1000 sec. and F5.6. The focal length was about 250 mm through a Canon EF-S55-250mm zoom lens.
Anyhow, we’re late in wishing everybody a happy 2025, but we can do it now, so there it is.
Our plans for the new year aren’t very resolute, but they will probably include a longer voyage with the motorhome to the lands of our ancestors with some interesting attractions along the route(s). We may also go all the way to the east coast which will be a first for us in the big rig.
There will be no eclipses this time around, but we will be on the lookout for interesting photo ops and we plan to blog about it when we’re underway.
Cheers in 2025 and God Bless!
