The biggest news east of the Mississippi this Thanksgiving Day!

We are to infinity and beyond thrilled for Caroline and Casey!! Wish I had my ruby slippers 👠👠and we could have clicked our heels home. But we are definitely with them in spirit and will celebrate 🎉 big once back in N.C. The Legg men and I enjoyed The Peabody for a large Thanksgiving spread today. We’ve walked along the mighty Mississippi and went to the largest Bass Pro Shop on the planet. Great to just be together….now it’s football 🏈 🏈 🏈 football, football! War 🦅!

“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you. “ Frederick Buechner

cheers 🥂 to Caroline and Casey tonight! Our tummies are full of 🦃🦃 and our ❤️❤️❤️ Full of love and gratitude!

Happy Thanksgiving y’all!

“Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain. America, America, God shed his Grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.”

….Kathy Lee Bates

No matter how you traverse this great land we call the United States of America, by car, train, bicycle, motorcycle, horseback, tiny house on wheels, via picture book, the movies or googling, I encourage you to take some time to explore the country we call home. We can testify, it is America the Beautiful! You bet, from sea to shining sea! We’ve spent the last 5 days moving with purpose east, night to night at state parks through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and are currently pushing all wheels and Leggs across the mighty Mississippi into Memphis, Tennessee. The Legg boys will fly in tomorrow 👏👏👏👏❤️and we are spending Thanksgiving🦃, King style! We hope to capture the essence of Memphis, all things ribs, barbecue, blues, Elvis 🕺 and the duck 🦆🦆🦆 walk at the Peabody. We do miss our family and friends and send hugs, love, and blessings to everyone for a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We appreciate this venue of communication and enjoy your comments and texts about our posts. It’s been a fun way to keep connected! We’ll check in from Graceland soon! Xo ❤️

Cheers 🥂 from the open road! n&j

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” Georgia O’Keeffe

The vibrancy of south western living paints all the words this week for Dos Leggos in Sedona, AZ and Santa Fe, NM. Cultural sites, artifacts, arts, Latin inspired food, history and a sweet sacred spirit infused our last five days on this wild, wonderful ride. Driving east again into Texas, few hundred miles closer to home. 😍

Viernes feliz amigos de la carretera abierta!

🌶🌵🥂, n&j

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” …..Mahatma Gandhi

RVing and outdoor recreation is big time in Arizona on this Veteran’s Day weekend. Although the campground was full, the accommodating park rangers at Lake Pleasant State Park welcomed us to fill up our fresh water tank and dry camp/boon dock down on the spillway. So now we have our own lakeside retreat. Very nice indeed! Fantastic weather sunny 😎 and a dry 82 just north of Phoenix in this water craft and camping playground.

One side of the canyon is the lake and the other side desert 🌵 hiking trails. Saguaros as far as the eye can see. The life span of these amazing armed cacti can exceeed 150 years and it may take 75 to 100 years for the first arm to begin to grow!

Dos Leggos is moving east friends, taking in the desert landscapes of the American Southwest. Traffic was a nail biter through Pasedena and San Bernardino valley but the Miller Brewery had a pretty cool curbside appeal. We have passed numerous windmill farms out west but the stretch past Palm Springs, California had to be the biggest, looking like synchronized dancers across the breeze. Making the miles count! Always something interesting to see and share with y’all!

We want to thank and salute all of our family members and friends that serve and have served in the United States 🇺🇸  armed forces to keep our country safe, free, and the best and blessed nation in the world! God Bless our veterans and God Bless the USA 🇺🇸!

Happy Saturday from the open road! n&j 🌅🇺🇸

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”              …….Albert Einstein

What a hidden gem we found in the wine country of Paso Robles, CA. Dos Leggos are still California dreaming on sweet sunrises 🌅 over the vines, award winning nectar of that red varietal fruit and thank goodness no rattle snakes this time of year! Our first stop was Tobin James, the central feature of the tasting room was that gorgeous circa 1860’s Brunswick mahogany bar taken out of an old saloon in Blue Eye, Missouri, legendary hang of the Jesse James boys! If you join their wine club, you are officially part of the James gang! Nothing like wine touring in an RV! Nap it off in the back between tastings! Haha just kidding we were more the speed tasters…like it, buy a bottle of it! Southern California hospitality at its best even the wine kitty Herbie was host with the most. A 1/2 maine coon as big as Sam. Downtown PR proved a delight as well, found great eateries, made some new yoga friends and saw a cool car parked by the antique shop daily.

We were lucky to enjoy a Harvest Host stay in the vineyard of Rio Seco Cellars, an 83 acre site of an old movie set turned Home Run vintner. We walked the vineyard, also surrounded by an olive grove so we bought both wine and oil from Carol, the jovial proprietress. A few last fun pic plugs, congrats our friend and new city councilman, Johnny D, nod to our Jack at the Jack Creek Cafe on Hearst Ranch Estate Winery and a load of organic 🥕 carrots! My fave!

cheers from the open road! Make every day a great day! n&j 🍷🍷🥕🥕

“You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”   ……George Herbert

A look back from about mile 16 on the 26 miles of Pacific Coast Hwy to Big Sur yesterday. Almost every shot is postcard worthy! Day 27 on our journey did not disappoint. We’ve enjoyed a gorgeous and leisurely 4 days along the central coast of California. The busy fisherman’s wharf and Cannery Row of Monterey, famous for once being home to the sardine canning industry and then of course put on the map by Mr. Steinbeck. To cool Carmel where we did not see the former mayor but did take the beautiful 17 mile drive, a coastline wrap around Cypress Point, Spyglass and Pebble Beach golf clubs, the latter future host for the 2019 PGA US Open.  That will be a premium sporting event ticket indeed! 👍🏌️⛳️The open road continues to amaze us with God’s gift of natural beauty across America.

Cheers from the open road! n&j 🏖😎 🌅

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West

That’s us beside Lake Tahoe where we stopped yesterday for lunch and a few hours of walking around, checking out this Northern California/western Nevada recreation mecca. It’s a tricky road winding in and up especially when you don’t listen to Gabby Garmin (me), you can find yourselves half way up the mountain only to turn around due to height limitations and go back the initial way the RV Garmin says! So great scenery twice!

Navigating canyons is not for the feint of ❤️. Crossing through Shoshone Paiute reservation was open range for cattle 🐄 therefore canyon highway is considered open range. Sam was not sure at all about the long horned fellow crossing with his herd. For of you NC mountaineers who have driven the Shulls Mills road from Valle Crucis to Blowing Rock, this was X 25 in experiencing hairpins! We stayed a night in Elko, NV that claims to have a large stuffed polar bear in its lobby. Casinos are on every street corner of course in the Silver State bringing in all kinds of interesting characters to these small towns. We decided to make double time and race the snow across the mountainous terrain of El Dorado pass and landed in Folsom Lake State Park outside Sacremento for the next two days. Folsom may sound familiar as it is the theme of that Johnny Cash song…”Folsom prison blues”. Yes there is a state prison somewhere here…but not where Charles Manson is…yes freakazoid me checked! Haha

California dreaming! Cheers this am from the open road! n&j ☕️☕️