The Winter Plans are Firming Up

Since we are about half-way through our stint here at Greenbrier it is time to start thinking about what is next.  We know from here we will go to Assateague Island National Seashore for a couple of weeks- if we can get in since they are walk-in only starting 1 October.  After ANS we will take two or three days to cruise to the Crestview, FL area where we will spend another couple of weeks getting drivers licenses and vehicles registered. While there we will probably stay at Elgin AFB again if we can get in.  Snow birds typically eat up the military campgrounds and tend to homestead. After Crestview it will be a commercial campground close to Gainesville so we can visit my brother.  If things work out he will get to witness ‘ash can turkey’ for Thanksgiving.  I’m hoping hurricane Michael hasn’t done much damage to the Florida panhandle and they return to normal quickly.
From here the plans get really loose.  We just applied to host camp at Joshua Tree National Park in SoCal for the month of January.  If we get approved for that it will firm up our westward travel plans.  Right now the plan is to visit a friend near Corpus Christi, TX. and then friends near Alamogordo and Albuquerque, NM.  The Joshua Tree gig will determine who much time we spend in each place and whether we make it as far west as California in this year’s loop.
To return east we have applied to Assateague from mid-March through April and we will probably apply to Horseneck Beach in MA again for May until mid June since we have a CT resort planned (and paid for) in mid-June.  From there we are planning to tour the northern part of the country until September when we will return to Greenbrier for two months.  After that it should be like the shampoo instructions – wash, rinse, repeat - we hope.