Week 858 - Full Time Motorhome Travel - The End! - 01-22-2023

Full Time Motorhome Travel - The End!

This is The End and 8th installment of our Full Time Motorhome Travel series. The Full Time travelogues summarize our 17 years of motorhome travel. If you missed any of our Octology you can launch the first at Full Time Motorhome Travel - Part I - The Back Story, read it and click on Next to read them all.

Why The End ?

Are we done traveling? No, but we have settled on one location for the Winter (October to March). That spot is Palm Creek Resort and Residences in Casa Grande, Arizona. We have a 3-year lease on RV Lot 1678.

The resort began as RV and Park Model lots. It was called Palm Creek Golf & RV Resort. We visited for one day in 2007 on the way to Florida and all the Eastern states. We realized what a fabulous place it was and returned in 2009 and stayed for two weeks.

All we did was play pickleball as by then we were addicted. Over the years we returned 20 times for a total of 337 overnights. We called it Palm Creek Pickleball and RV Resort. Today, besides RVs and park models, it has houses up to 1,400 sq. ft. They have changed the name to Palm Creek Resort and Residences. It still has golf and much more.

We love Palm Creek but it was always over our budget. However in May of 2022 they offered a 3-year lease at 50% of the normal rates and we locked it in. So until May 2025, this is our home.

Arizona can be very hot in the summer, rather unbearable in an RV with 1 1/2" walls. So as usual we will travel from Spring to Fall and return in the Winter.

So is this The End?. Sort of. For 17 years we have written a weekly travelogue, if we had something interesting to write about. Now from October to March, we will not have new locales to photograph. Nor will we meet new people everyday.

As we have done in the past we will post photos from our collection of over 100,000 in our archive.

So hang in there, May 2025 will be here before you know it.

Annually, we have always published a yearly summary. This time we summarize all 17 years.

We have covered 144,929 miles in the MotherShip. We have moved 1,301 times staying at 667 locations.

Most RVers stay at RV parks and campgrounds. We do as well, but we have spent more days at other venues.

8 days at Harvest Hosts.

17 days at fuel stops.

26 days at casinos.

35 days at pickleball courts.

40 days at random bookdocking locations.

41 days at RV rallies.

58 days at various businesses.

62 days at Walmarts.

86 days at government campgrounds.

132 days at SOWERS projects.

136 days at Service Centers.

1,107 days at Elks Lodges.

2,031 days at 50 different homes.

2,226 days at RV parks and resorts.

Our overnight stays vary from 1 day to hundreds of days.

281  1-day stays
316  2-10 day stays
62   11-99 day stays

Our stays over 100 days are:

104 days Redding Elks.

145 days Chad & Emilys.

241 days Frank & Janices.

359 days Golden Village Palms.

440 days Palm Creek Resort .

488 days Atascadero Elks.

Longest single day of travel was 525 miles from Goodyear, Arizona to Arroyo Grande, California for a medical emergency

Shortest day of travel was 3 miles from one Niagara Falls RV park to another to join our neighbors Ben and Sid.

One more note, we are now Zonies, residents of Arizona.

The End.

With love, Pete, Ellen and Mandy

The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Psalms 32:8

Photos from 2006 to 2022