God, the RV & me

Let me start off this blog with wishing my father-in-law a Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, Dad! It was good to talk with him on the phone and wish him well. We will see him in October, that will be good. The birthday boy, Juan Lozano (91 years young) and hubby. We are staying in Woodstock, not the Woodstock that would first come to your mind, but Woodstock, New Hampshire. We are here for two weeks, week one done. It is a very beautiful state with mountains, rivers, lakes, trees and lots of green.   Our site for two weeks. Woodstock became a village in 1763, colonial Governor Benning Wentworth named the town "Peeling" after an English town. Many of the first colonists were originally from Lebanon, Connecticut. In 1771, his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, gave it the name "Fairfield", after Fairfield Connecticut. The town was renamed "Woodstock" in 1840 for the Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, possibly due to the popularity of the 1826 Wa...

Hope you had a truly blessed 4th of July. We had a wet one, Gus was happy, not a lot of fireworks popping. We had quite a bit of rain last week. We did manage to get out to Cape Elizabeth and that was beautiful. Hubby also was able to fly his drone a few times. He is getting better at controlling his newest toy. I am just so glad he enjoys it. Can you see it? It is that tiny black dot above the tree line. As early as 1529, Cape Elizabeth appears as a nameless headland mapped by a Spanish cartographer. Girolamo de Verrazzano's 1529 map of his brother  Giovanni's 1524 voyage along the East Coast of America. In 1604, Samuel de Champlain charted the raised mass of land around the Cape Elizabeth, and in 1615, the explorer John Smith, gave that land mass its name in honor of Princess Elizabeth, sister of King Charles I of England. Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662), the only daughter  of King James VI. She was also the sister of Henry, Prince of Wales,  and the future King Charles ...