USA TRAVEL
Having owned our VW T6 campervan for nearly six years, we have done our fair share of road trips. As former teachers, we got away in our ’van as much as possible, enjoying long-distance European road trips during the summer breaks.
Retiring early in 2022, our time in the ’van since then has only increased. It is at this point that we need to bring you up to date with lackie’s mum, Iris, and her travel goals.
Iris is an inspiration to us both. She has travelled independently for most other retired life and has a personal quest to visit all of the 50 states of America. At the age of 78, she is currently has only 10 states to go!
Earlier this year, she had a proposition for us, to join her in a rental RV to visit a range of Rocky Mountain and Midwest states that she had not already bagged. As the travel distances were so large, and we have time on our side in early retirement, a five-week road trip sounded a reasonable proposition - who could refuse?
We flew into Denver, Colorado, which is a 10-hour flight from the UK and this, combined with a seven-hour time difference, did nothing for our energy levels on landing.
We had anticipated this in our planning and had booked a budget hotel close to the RV pick-up site so we could have a valuable night’s sleep before the challenges of getting to grips with a rental RV that would be considerably larger than our little T6 campervan.
After a full-on American buffet
