Borsos Autumn Road Trip Part 3
We left Ohio early on a Saturday morning. It was a rainy day and the Autumn leaves were heavy on the ground. Lots of trees becoming bare for the Winter months ahead.
We were on our way to Anderson, Indiana, where we would be picking up a new travel trailer.
We had ordered it in July with the plan to make final payment and pick up on our way home.
Ron had done the research to have the right vehicle to tow with and the choices of trailers it could tow.
We had settled on a Skyline Nomad, Joey model. It even has a kangaroo on the logo on the side of the trailer. We think appropriate since we spent some time ‘down under’.
It took about 3-4 hours to install the tow package to our Nissan Pathfinder and go over the trailer with the salesman. The rain had subsided when it was time to leave and head west.
A bit about the trailer: It is 19 feet and an almost identical floor plan like the trailer we owned for 13 years. One item that is not the same is the couch. This trailer does not have the couch and that is what makes it shorter by 3 feet. It has a few features that are different which we really like. The bed sits so one can walk around 3 sides; easier for making the bed. The front has two compartment doors on the outside and the space goes all the way through for lots of storage. The double sink has a gooseneck faucet making dish rinsing easier. The décor color is shades of copper and brown.
For the next 5 nights we slept and cooked in the trailer. It traveled well. One difference for our travels was that we had to stop for gas more often as the Nissan gas tank is much smaller than the dual tanks on our Ford truck (which is what we towed our previous trailer with).
We traveled through Illinois and into Iowa, stopping at a rest stop for the night. We were near West Branch, Iowa, the boyhood town of Herbert Hoover, 54th president of the United States. And we were in Quaker country. We had a five hour drive to West Iowa and a rest stop for the night near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Lots of farmland along this stretch of highway.
Waking to rain, we had a short drive to Papillion, Nebraska to visit Ron’s cousins, Ralph & Carolyn Tate. They have a beautiful home in the country near Offutt Air Force Base. Ralph is retired Air Force. We had a restful visit for the day catching up about family and life in general (three of their four children are married now and they are blessed with grandchildren too ).
Next stop was Lafayette, Colorado to visit with friends, Barry & Irene Lovvorn. The Lovvorn’s lived in Moorpark and attended church with us before moving to Colorado in 1993. We had visited them a few times over the years and kept in touch. It was a joy to spend a little time with them again.
Our last couple of days took us over the Rocky Mountains through Vail & Grand Junction, Colorado with spectacular views and snow streaked mountains. Then we traveled through Utah along hwy 70 and 50. Even though we have been through Utah a couple of times, we had not seen this portion of it and were amazed at the rock formations.
An overnight at a truck stop and pizza dinner in the trailer we were ready for our last day on the road. Highway 50 in Nevada is dubbed “The Loneliest Stretch of Highway”. We enjoyed a spectacular sunrise, climbed several mountain ranges, drove the valleys between them, saw storm clouds in the distance, had snow in Ely & Eureka, and were grateful for dry weather to climb our Sierra Nevada Mountains to get home and park the trailer in our RV space next to the house.
All was well at the house and neighborhood and we were very thankful the Lord kept us safe and filled us with fond memories.