The Canadian Coddiwomplers: 2024 South-West USA ("Not all those who wander are lost.")

Coddiwomple: “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination." My Ole Kentucky Home Parade The Derby Museum It has been raining everyday since we left Guelph, I'm beginning to think we'll never need our sunglasses or use the numerous tubes of sunscreen we have with us.  Anyway, the tradition when camping and it's raining is of course to visit a museum.  We had three choices in Louisville (pronounced Lou-a-ville) for our outing on Friday, the Muhammad Ali Museum, the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory or the Derby Museum.   It wasn't a hard choice for us although I'm sure all of them would have been interesting.  I  know we are not seeing Kentucky at her best this time of year.  The blue grass is brown and we've had foggy grey skies and wet ground the entire time.  When/if we come back, we'll have more time to take in the sights. The Derby Museum is actually part of Churchill Downs.  They aren't racing right now as it is too c...

" Coddiwomplers ":   The word coddiwomple (English slang) is  defined as “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination”. Thanks for joining us on another adventure with Jerry and Elizabeth, Misty, the guys, Miss Adventure Too and Clifford, the big red truck! It's been an interesting few weeks with a mild winter, above freezing temps and then suddenly...a sub freezing polar cap moved in over North America.  We wondered if we may have to delay our trip but it did  clear up and we continued with our plan to leave on the 22nd of January.  We figured we'd be staying in a few motels on the way until we hit weather warm enough to allow de-winterizing of the trailer and start the water works.   I'd (Jerry) been targeting Louisville, Kentucky.  The worst of the storm/snow passed and we were able to make several trips out to the stored trailer for maintenance and to preload.  There was so much planning involved for such a long trip, ...