o/` o/` "North, to Alaska Goin' North the Rush is On" o/`o/` OR our 2016 Sojourning Schedule

When last we posted it was the videos of an virtually empty Camp Bee.

ALERT! ALERT!

We understand that some of our blog followers could not view the videos as they were posted.  Well, how can I put this kindly .... Ummm, UPDATE YOUR COMPUTERS?!?!  The videos that we post here are always in .MOV formats.  This is a standard video CODEC.  Codec is "COder DECoder shoved together into "CODEC".  A Codec is "a device or program that compresses data to enable faster transmission and decompresses received data."

When you make a video the device you are doing it on doesn't care how much space it takes up.  It just keeps recording.  If it is an apple iPad (like we used for the video) it uses M4V Codec.  However the video was 502 Megabytes long and the LONGEST video allowed on this blog by google is 100 Megabytes, so it had to be broken into 6 chunks.  Also, because Google and Apple are competitors M4V (an Apple CODEC) is NOT uploadable to this blog.  This is because Google hates Apple and Apple hates Google and GOD FORBID that for the sake of their common customers they should get along and support one another's software and hardware.  So, we have to run the videos through a video converter to post it onto this site.  We chose the MOV codec because its a very common one.  So, if your WINDOWS computer could NOT view the videos on the last blog posting go onto the internet (OH, wait you ARE on the internet) -- go onto the internet on your windows computer and perform a search for:

"Windows MOV codec software"

a myriad of programs will come up (some free) that will allow you to install a MOV Coder-Decoder ("Codec") onto your windows computer.

Back to our posting.

Anyway, the NEXT blog post will be the videos of a virtually full Camp Bee.  This blog posting will be about our Sojourn Schedule for 2016.

We decided that next year we would seize the opportunity to make our RV "pilgrimage" to Alaska.  For most people that RV full-time and many part-timers too, making a trip to Alaska is on the proverbial "bucket list."  We ain't gettin' no younger, so we decided we'd better make the trip while we could still drive well. From our home in Mission, TX to the sojourn we will team lead in Homer, Alaska ("the end of the road") is 4571 miles.  If it were only that simple!

So, here's our Sojourn Schedule for 2016:

February 18th - March 3rd, 2016 - Port Lavaca, Texas

March 17th - March 31st - Downey, California

April 1st - April 14th - Yosemite Bible Camp, Oakhurst, California

June 2nd - June 16th - Homer, Alaska

July 21st - August 13th - Rupert, Idaho

October 10th - 20th - Camp Bee Workshop

Once we leave Mission to head to Port Lavaca we won't be back in Mission until August.  Thank goodness we have great neighbors, a rock solid security system and live in a gated community!  We will travel 10,286 miles DIRECTLY from one location to another, but that doesn't even begin to add in the side trips we plan to be taking:

Yosemite National Park
Death Valley
Joshua Tree National Monument
The Redwood Forest of Northwest California
Crater Lake, Oregon
Olympic Peninsula in Washington State
Mount St. Helen's
Denali National Park
Fairbanks, AK
Yellowstone National Park

and who knows how many other interesting side trips along the way.

So, I expect we will put 13-15 K miles on our rig next year and who knows how many extra on our car.