Putting too many miles on the van

We had wanted to take a spin around this recommended route of the US. 

It's 11,000 miles we figured, if one sticks to the route.

So, we loaded our bikes on the new van, and headed towards the Eastern part of the map.

Here we are in the town of the Winnebago factory, taken at "The Golden Hour".

The goal was to leave early and avoid tornado season. 

We only got as close as a day's drive from the ones that hit Iowa & Illinois.
But we did get a great "morning-after" pic after the storm passed over us, which we posted on http://drivinghereandthere.blogspot.com/2015/04/early-morning-beauty.html.

Unfortunately we did find lots of cold & rain on our trip.

On this particular day, we slept in 26 degrees, near the Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina border, at the start of the 26 mile Virginia Creeper Bike Trail.

But we didn't let the weather disturb us. 

We just put on our Kodiak rain gear and marched on.

You might have seen some of the places we visited.  

There are a few more we might put on the blog.

(And maybe someday we'll talk about downsizing to 102 sq. feet living area for a month.)

But we now need to slow down a little.

We ended up putting over 5,500 miles in 4 weeks.

And, at this rate, we might run out the new vehicle warranty before the first 12 months!