Winnefred Mulligan

Yep, we still have our Winnefred Mulligan, our 1991 Toyota Winnebago Warrior. Since we've been back from our epic Arctic Circle adventure we've been pretty busy. We bought a house that needed a TON of work, just to be able to live in it. It was built around 1890 here in St. Augustine, FL. No one had lived in it for 40 years, or so we'd been told. We made a space for our little RV and built one of those tarp and pipe canopy covers to keep the rain and sun off the roof. We have an electrical outlet beside it so we can keep a trickle charger on the starting battery. We run her once a month, take a drive for a few miles to keep her in shape. Also, when we got back from our Arctic trip, we had to repair the support beams under the back of the RV. Toyota made the original support beams that extend a couple of feet beyond the back wheels. Winnebago added 3 or 4 feet to that. You can see the weld where they were extended. Well, we had too much weight on the back of her. A hitch mo

From the Atlantic coast of Florida, to the Pacific in Alaska and on to the Arctic Ocean in Tuktoyaktuk, we're finally back where we started, in St. Augustine, FL. Our return trip on Google Maps We drove the back roads of GA all day. Peach trees in the Georgia country side Pecan Trees Quite a few small towns You know you're in the South when you see boiled peanuts for sale! More Pecan trees It was overcast and rained quite a bit with a few rumbles of thunder. Luckily, we seemed to have missed the worst of the thunderstorms. The cloud cover helped to keep the RV cooler on the inside. The solar panels were still cranking out voltage despite the clouds - tells you how strong the sun is here in the South. We finally pulled into St. Augustine around 11pm or 12am. We passed the iconic St. Augustine Castillo. We got a lot of our stuff, but not all, and parked Winnefred. We'll be back to clean her up an

We hit a lot of traffic on our drive and didn't pull into the campground til after dark. We had temporarily forgotten how bad the humidity can be. We started out on the interstates, then switched to the back roads when the traffic got too bad. on Google Maps No shade here, you gotta have good AC. Luckily, ours works wonderfully! Actually a very nice place. You can pay extra to park along the creek where there are shade trees. You can also swim in the creek. They rent kayaks here and canoes. Ok, we're off to Florida ;-)

Our route since leaving Tuktoyaktuk: and on Google Maps You can always follow our location in real-time with Garmin Leaving Minot, ND, it totally worked out that we would be staying in the small town of Winnebago, MN. We've noticed a number of small towns in Canada, ND & MN, have very small RV "parks." Managed by the town itself, these small campsites don't have a lot of extras. They are very affordable though. Usually $20 for full electric/water/sewer, maybe a picnic table, maybe not. There's no "host" around if you have problems with something. These towns aren't big enough for a hotel, so these small campgrounds serve that purpose. You don't really find them off the big interstates though. Anyway, we stayed in the town of Winnebago's campground. It was very nice and even had a shower house with toilets. They don't advertise these sites much so you have to hunt online. The town-managed small rv campground in Winnebago, MN