Pamela and Lloyd ending their Tour of North America
Hello POGers,
After three years of full-timing around North America, we are leaving the bus with Steve Bennett from California Coach Company for him to sell and traveling back to Nova Scotia.
We bought the bus three years ago here in LA on March 1, 2008 with the help of Jon, Steve, and many other POG members.
Jon was so gracious to look at hundreds of photos of three different buses we narrowed our search to before flying to CA, AZ, and IL to see them. Jon virtually inspected each with us and helped us make the most informed decision.
After selecting the CA bus we, Steve met us at Prevost in Mira Loma to do a coach inspection while they did a DMI. We then drove straight to Jon's bus barn to let Jon do a final inspection.
We filled the bus with our belonging and said goodbye to family and friends and enjoyed our first rally in TN and had a great time meeting all the members. For the next three years we traveled over 40,000 miles and visited all the provinces except Newfoundland and visited all the states. Our Travel Blog documented our adventures in photos and stories.
We made the mini rally in Lake Havasu, Ken's party at Quartsite, Maine, and Port St. Lucie, and the OK rally. Tour Nova Scotia with Eric, Debbie, and Jay last summer and have enjoyed the hospitality of many along the way. Thank you all for your kindness to us.
Thank you most of all to POG and its wonderful members who have helped us with advice and counsel and solutions throughout our travels. The $100 membership fee is the best insurance and travel assistance service in the country. I can not name all the members who have solved problems and given us great advice through out the years, each know who you are and we say Thank You Very Much.
Jon thank your for all the calls you answered and your wealth of advice, you are a treasure.
Eric and Debbie thank you for your wonderful hospitality and friendship, you're the best.
Jim Skiff thank you for creating such a wonderful forum of characters and allowing us to join.
Our best wishes to all we have met and to those we have only shared this forum. You will all be missed.
We look forward to getting back home to NS with family and friends. We will continue to travel (we cruise later this year to Ireland, England, France, and The Netherlands). Our next big adventure may be cruising the French canals by barge.
But for now we look forward to finding reconnecting with our own community of friends and eventually find some property around Lunenburg and build a home.
If your travels bring you to NS please contact us. We will continue to post to the travel blog, but will probably change its name to "Pamela and Lloyd's Current Adventures" (or something like that).
We're in Malibu boxing up our clothes and belonging before heading to Steve's. We have enjoyed wintering in Malibu and San Diego this year and had a wonderful time.
We now have to cross the border and return to NS before my residency and our health care is at risk.
Attached last photo from Malibu.
Big hug to all.
Lloyd and Pamela
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