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title: "We are off on a Grand Adventure"
date: 2017-06-15
author: "Phoebe Moon"
featured_image: "https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Driessen-kitten-rescue-during-Harvey.jpg"
categories:
  - name: "Travel"
    url: "/category/travel.md"
---

# We are off on a Grand Adventure

![We have named our Grand Design Fifth Wheel "The Princess" as she takes us on a Grand Circle adventure. ](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_0094-1024x768.jpg)

My newly retired husband and I have decided to take a cross country trip to visit the Grand Canyon. The Foreign Exchange student we have had for the past five summers will be joining us in Las Vegas as we do the [Grand Circle](https://national-park-posters.com/blogs/national-park-posters/national-parks-of-the-grand-circle). We leave tomorrow at 5AM, so I will leave you with this poem, which my husband would totally agree with:

> I have a little GPS  
> I’ve had it all my life  
> It’s better than the normal ones  
> My GPS is my wife  
>   
> It gives me full instructions  
> Especially how to drive  
> “It’s thirty miles an hour”, it says  
> “You’re doing thirty five”
> 
> It tells me when to stop and start  
> And when to use the brake  
> And tells me that it’s never ever  
> Safe to overtake  
>   
> It tells me when a light is red  
> And when it goes to green  
> It seems to know instinctively  
> Just when to intervene  
>   
> It lists the vehicles just in front  
> And all those to the rear  
> And taking this into account  
> It specifies my gear.  
>   
> I’m sure no other driver  
> Has so helpful a device  
> For when we leave and lock the car  
> It still gives its advice  
>   
> It fills me up with counseling  
> Each journey’s pretty fraught  
> So why don’t I exchange it  
> And get a quieter sort?  
>   
> Ah well, you see, it cleans the house,  
> makes sure I’m properly fed, it  
> washes all my shirts and things and –  
> keeps me warm in bed!  
>   
> Despite all these advantages  
> And my tendency to scoff,  
> I do wish that once in a while  
> I could turn the darned thing off.
> 
> **Attributed to Motley Fool, 2013**

## More RV Adventures

- [Beginning our Grand Circle Adventure](https://scrapdash.com/off-grand-adventure/)
- [Lessons Learned on our First RV trip](https://scrapdash.com/lessons-learned-road/)
- [RV Culture Shock](https://scrapdash.com/traveling-expands-horizons/)
- [Greetings from Las Vegas](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-las-vegas/)
- [Greetings from Utah](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-from-utah/)
- [Greetings from the Grand Canyon](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-grand-canyon/)
- [Greetings from Benson](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-benson-az/) AZ
- [Greetings from Deming NM](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-deming-nm/)
- [Greetings from New Orleans](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-new-orleans/)
- [Greetings from Pensacola Beach FL](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-pensacola-beach-fl/)
- [Greetings from Old Fort NC](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-old-fort-nc/)
- [Greetings from Mammoth Cave](https://scrapdash.com/greetings-from-mammoth-caves/)





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