Itinerary
Though our adventure started last July 2012, our blogging will begin late April 2013, when our full time endeavor really resumed.
4/21/2013-4/28/2013 Olympic Village Inn (1 bedroom)
Squaw Valley, CA $185.00
RCI Last Call Special
4/28/2013-5/4/2013 Tahoe Seasons Resort (1 bedroom)
Lake Tahoe, CA (Left early due to doctor appt.) $272.00
RCI Last Call
5/4/2013-5/6/2013 At son’s place
5/6/2013-5/8/2013 Carmel Fireplace Inn
Carmel, CA
Great deal from TravelZoo $150.00
5/8/2013 El Dorado Hotel
Reno, NV
Priceline $ 32.00
5/9/2013 Red Lion Hotel
Elko, Nevada
Priceline $ 75.00
5/10/2013-5/17/2013 Worldmark – Wolf Creek (2 bedroom)
Eden, Utah $243.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
5/17/2013 Radisson Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
Priceline $ 75.00
5/18/2013-5/25/2013 Park Regency (1 bedroom)
Park City, Utah $242.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
5/25/2013-6/1/2013 Iron Blosam Lodge (studio)
Snowbird, Utah $244.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
6/1/2013-6/8/2013 Grand Destinations Oasis (1 bedroom)
Mesquite, Nevada $245.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
6/8/2013-6/22/2013 The Cliffs at Peace Canyon (1 bedroom)
Las Vegas, Nevada $686.00*=$343.00 week*
RCI Extra Vacations (2 weeks)
*Paid extra due to needing to be in area (Learning lesson)
6/22/2013-6/29/2013 Thunderbird Resort (1 bedroom)
Sparks, Nevada $238.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
6/29/2013-7/13/2013 Plaza Resort (studio)
Reno, Nevada $676.00 ($276.94+$398.37)
RCI Extra Vacations (2 weeks)
*Paid extra due to needing to be in area (Lesson learned)
7/13/2013-7/20/2013 Lodi, CA
7/20/2013-7/26/2013 Santa Clara, CA or Prunedale, CA
7/26/2013-8/26/2013 – Victoria, BC, Canada
AirBnB $1263.00
8/26/2013-8/28/2013 – Brother John’s
Salem, Oregon
8/28/2013 – Ramada Inn
Williams, California
8/28/2013-9/8/2013 Studio
Prunedale, California
9/2/2013 Worldmark Marina Dunes (2 bedroom)
Marina, California $75.00
Worldmark Bonus Time
9/8/2013-9/9/2013 Rodeway Hotel
Yreka, California
Coupon Booklet
9/9/2013-9/14/2013 – Brother John’s
Salem, Oregon
9/14/2013-9/21/2013 Vacation Internationale Elkhorn (1 bedroom)
Ketchum, Idaho $298.59
RCI Last Call
9/22/2013-9/29/2013 Worldmark Arrow Point (3 bedroom)
Couer d’Alene, Idaho $222.50
Ebay
9/27/2013-10/4/2013 Stoneridge Resort (studio)
Blanchard, Idaho $241.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special (Overlapped – short drive will check in here but stay at Worldmark until 9/29/2013)
10/4/2013-10/11/013 Traveling – hotels/family/friends
10/11/2013-10/18/2013 Crown Point Resort (1 bedroom)
Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas $265.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
10/18/2013-10/25/2013 Silverleaf Holiday Hills (2 bedroom)
Branson, Missouri $311.00*
RCI Extra Vacations Special
*Paid extra for 2 bedroom for family visiting
10/25/2013-11/1/2013 Mariner’s Point Resort (1 bedroom)
Crossville, Tennessee $280.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
11/1/2013-11/8/2013 Fairway Forest at Sapphire Valley (1 bedroom)
Sapphire, NC $268.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
11/8/2013-11/15/2013 Patrick Henry Square (1 bedroom)
Williamsburgh, Virginia $265.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
11/15/2013-11/22/2013 Barrier Island (1 bedroom) (They upgraded to 2 bedroom/lockoff)
Kitty Hawk, NC $223.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
11/22/2013-11/29/2013 Seaglass Tower (1 bedroom)
Myrtle Beach, SC $307.00**
RCI Extra Vacations Special
**Paid extra due to holiday week
11/29/2013 Day’s Inn
Montgomery, Alabama
11/30/2013-12/2/2013 Microtel Inn
Pearl River, Louisiana
12/1/2013-12/8/2013 Vacation Village at Parkway (1 bedroom)
Kissimmee, Florida $246.00
RCI Extra Vacations Special
12/8/2013-12/15/2013 Mizner Place (1 bedroom) (They upgraded to 2 bedroom/lockoff)
Weston, Florida $200.79
RCI Extra Vacations Special
12/15/2013-12/22/2013 Vacation Village at Weston (1 bedroom)(They upgraded to 2 bedroom/lockoff)
Weston, Florida $200.79
RCI Extra Vacations Special
12/21/013-1/3/2014 Vacation Villas (2 bedroom)
Titusville, Florida $296.70×2
RCI Extra Vacations Special
1/3/2014-1/4/2014 – Hotel (Ocean Walk, Daytona Beach)
1/4/2014-1/18/2014 Silver Beach Club Resort (2 bedroom)
Daytona Beach, Florida $235.13×2
RCI Extra Vacations Special
1/18/2014-1/25/2014 Holiday Inn Club Vacations South Beach (2 bedroom)
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina $266.33
1/25/2014-2/1/2014 Plantation Resort Villas (2 bedroom)
Surfside Beach, South Carolina $261.92
2/1/2014-2/8/2014 Peppertree Atlantic Beach (2 bedroom)
Atlantic Beach, North Carolina $199.00 exchange fee
5 TPU Sale
2/8/2014-2/15/2014 Wyndham Patriot’s Place (2 bedroom)
Williamsburg, Virginia $199.00 exchange fee
5 TPU Sale
2/15/2014-2/21/2014 New York City
Hilton – Broadway/Times Square/Central Park area
Skyauction (buy it now) $903.57 (found out this was two rooms)
2/21/2014-2/28/2014 Fantasea Resorts La Sammera (2 bedroom)
Brigantine, New Jersey $219.00 extra vacations sale ($245.28)
2/28/2014-3/7/2014 Woodstone at Massanetten (2 bedroom)
McGaheysville, Virginia $219.00 extra vacations sale ($223.38)
3/7/2014-3/14/2014 Gatlinburg Town Square (1 bedroom) (upgraded to 3 bedroom)
Gatlinburg, Tennessee $219.00 extra vacations sale ($249.83)+($197.31)
3/14/2014-3/16/2014 Franklin, Tennessee hotel
3/16/2014-3/17/2014 Tennessee – staying with family
3/17/2014-3/18/2014 hotel on way to stay with family in Oklahoma
3/18/2014-3/22/2014 staying with family in Oklahoma
3/22/2014-3/26/2014 en route West
3/26/2014-3/28/2014 Sedona, Arizona
3/28/2014-3/29/2014 -?
3/29/2014-4/5/2014 Grandview (2 bedroom)
Las Vegas, Nevada Extra Vacations Sale ($246.52)
5/9/2014-5/1i6/2014 Grandview (1 bedroom)
Las Vegas, Nevada Extra Vacations Sale ($209.36)
8/2/2014-8/6/2014 Worldmark Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada (points plus HK)
8/6/2014-8/8/2014 Haida Way Motor Inn
Port McNeill, Canada
Bookings.com ($218.00)
8/9/2014 – Spending night with friends in Canada
8/14/2014
Cedarwood Inn
Ashland, Oregon ($75.90)
Shakespeare Festival (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
9/6/2014-9/13/2014 Iron Blosam (studio)
Snowbird, Utah ($274.66) EV Sale
We plan on visiting with brother John on the way up to Montana. On the way down we’re going to either leave a day early from Banff, or arrive a day late in West Yellowstone. We’ll get a hotel half way (probably Great Falls, Montana). We’ll go South from West Yellowstone and go back to Shoshone Falls, through Reno, and then back to Prunedale for doctor appointments.
10/25/2014-11/1-14/2014 – Grand Pacific Resorts @ Meadow Lake (1 bedroom)
Columbia Falls, Montana Extra Vacations Sale ($223.63)
11/1/2014-11/8/2014 – Worldmark Banff (1 bedroom)
Canmore, AB, Canada ($198.98) EV Sale
(Left Banff early due to weather and spent the night in Great Falls, Montana – Priceline)
11/8/2014-11/15/2014 – Worldmark West Yellowstone (1 bedroom)
West Yellowstone, Montana ($258.00) EV Sale
We went back to Prunedale for Doctor appointments, and left on 11/20/2014. We spent that night with good friends in Visalia, California. Along the way to Florida, we visited with friends and family in Cave Creek, Arizona; Alamogordo, New Mexico; Dallas, Texas; and Slidell, Louisiana.
12/6/2014-12/13/2014 – Barefoot in the Keys (1 bedroom)
Kissimmee, Florida ($248.95) EV Sale
Cruise to the Eastern Caribbean (Saw St. Marteen and San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Special sale at less than $1,000.00 for the two of us on a balcony for 7 days
12/20/2014-12/27/2014 – Little Gull (2 bedroom)
Longboat Key, Florida Exchange (points plus Exchange Fee – most expensive way)
12/27/2014-1/3/2015 – Sheraton Vistana Resort Fountains Villas (2 bedroom)
Orlando, Florida Exchange (points plus Exchange Fee – most expensive way)
1/3/2015-1/17/2015 – Vacation Village at Parkway (1 bedroom)
Kissimmee, Florida EV Sale ($218.15 x 2 for two weeks)
1/17/2015-1/24/2015 – Villas at Fortune Place (2 bedroom)
Kissimmee, Florida EV Sale ($236.17)
1/24/2015-1/31/2015 – Alhambra at Poinciano (1 bedroom)
Poinciano, Florida EV Sale ($296.84)
1/31/2015-2/2/2015 – Atlanta Georgia –
2/3/2015-2/27/2015 Fly to Rome and have a 21 day cruise to Greece, Turkey, France, Spain, Italy, Monaco, and Sicily. When we get back we will spend the night somewhere on our way to Oklahoma.
Not sure what we’re going to do – maybe AirBnB or something off Ebay.
2/28/2015-3/7/2015 – Worldmark at Grand Lake (2 bedroom)
Afton, OK EV Sale ($293.80)
3/7/2015-3/14/2015 – Palace View by Spinnaker (2 bedroom)
Branson, MO EV Sale ($232.98)
3/14/2015-3/21/2015 – Silverleaf Fox River (Studio)
Sheridan, Illinois EV Sale ($221.54)
3/21/2015-3/28/2015 – Fox Hills Resort (2 bedroom)
Mishicot, Wisconsin EV Sale ($219.45)
3/28/2015-4/4/2015 – Wyndham Tamarack (1 bedroom)
Wisconsin Dells, WI EV Sale ($233.56)
4/4/2015-4/5/2015 – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Hotel chain web site ($56.20)
4/5/2015-4/7/2015 – Rapid City, South Dakota
Hotel chian web site ($80.16)
4/7/2015-4/8/2015 – Cheyenne, Wyoming
Priceline ($62.22)
4/8/2015-4/10/2015 – Denver, Colorado
Hotel chain web site ($150.62)
4/10/2015-4/11/2015 – Alamosa, Colorado
Hotel chain web site ($68.81)
4/11/2015-4/18/2015 – Wyndham Durango (1 bedroom)
Durango, CO EV Sale ($229.69)
4/18/2015-4/20/2015 – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hotel chain web site ($103.64)
* Increased costs due to needing to be in a specific area at a specific time, or due to wanting a larger unit for visiting family.
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