Happy Thanksgiving Linda and Scott! I am also missing family - we are with my parents - but NOT with my kids! I have talked to my son, who is making his first turkey this year! Will call my daughter later. I have learned over the last few years to share them with "others" on holidays, but I won't see them at all this year! 😞

Anyway - enough of that! We are grateful to be here in the WARM of FL and with my parents for the holidays (first time in like 8 years!). We are grateful that one year ago we were making our first purchase (our truck) toward our new "wanna be" full-time lifestyle and here we are now - LIVING IT! Life is good!

Hugs to all!

This is our first Thanksgiving on the road as well. I am really missing my kids and grandkids but we will be joining the RV park potluck this evening and we will Skype with family too so that should help.

Even though we won't be with family we are grateful to be able to enjoy this lifestyle.

Happy Thanksgiving.......You'll have to do a turkey in a turkey deep-fryer at the campground. Yum yum.....

Our first holiday without family in CA.  We were determined to have local specialties for Thanksgiving dinner.  So here in Savannah, GA we ate at the Old Pink House.  Steve had an amazing Grouper and I had the traditional turkey and sides.  We shared.  It was yummy, but is sure wasn't the Ravioli and Meatballs with family!  Very nice day!

I would probably have crawfish étouffée if I was in New Orleans myself. But I do love turkey and had it today at a good friends house in Jacksonville, Florida.

Sounds like others have non-turkey food traditions, too. Ours is fajitas, other Tex-Mex delights, and homemade pecan pie instead of pumpkin. 

 

Our deployed service men and women are away from family during many holidays.  Please remember to give thanks for their dedication. 

This is our first T'giving on the road as well, although spent with our daughter and son in law in NC. We've done this for the past 3 years, except it always meant driving back and forth 10 hours from NJ, and spending a long weekend in their small apartment. Each year, we kept saying how nice it would be for us to "have home will travel," and how that has come true!!! They are now in a beautiful 3 BR house, but still, it's nice to be able to go back to our own place. And it's also nice to have the option to stay put or move to another location, but not worrying about trekking back to NJ with all the rest of the holiday travelers.

This was our second Thanksgiving since going full time and we're finding that we're already starting new traditions, grilling a turkey roast which means we can sleep in on Thanksgiving day, Yay! Marveling in the fact that we can enjoy part of the holiday sitting outside, this year it was breakfast sitting outside which watching the local bird population swarm our feeders! We also learned a lot from last year's holiday, this year I didn't plan quite such an ambitious menu, we won't have home made cranberry sauce for 2 months, finding new places to visit over the holiday weekend, avoiding the Black Friday crowds and being thankful that we can enjoy this life style at this time in our lives.

We'll be flying to visit family for Christmas this year and know that for several other holidays (4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, etc.) we'll be close enough to visit family if we want to. We're realizing Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays where it's just the 2 of us. So, we're enjoying a much more laid back holiday, counting our blessings that for many of our holidays we will be near family and friends.

For our first Thanksgiving on the road, we had a potluck dinner at the park in Henderson, NV the Saturday before. On Thanksgiving day, we had a traditional meal at the Black Bear diner in Bullhead City, AZ. Christmas and New Years will be spent in Livingston, TX becoming Texans!!