Sunday, August 17, 2008

OBW.....Well We Really Aren't Sure About That!!!!!!!


Hi to all you fellow OBW's we are Dori & Dick Faulkner (Tweety & Coach) and right now do not live anyplace as we are both retired and are full time RVer's traveling around the United States and geocaching as we go. Tweety was born in Auburn, NY and Coach in Syracuse, NY. We both had lived in that area all our lives. We have 4 sons Tim, Chris, Scott and Sean who are all married. We have 5 grandchildren Cody, Luke, Tyler, Alexis and Anna and 5 step grandchildren Rachel, Cory, Erica, Nikki, and Jasmine Rose (Rosie). Our children live in Camillus, NY, Binghamton, NY, Branchburg, NJ and Colchester, CT. Thet were all brought up in Camillus, NY and attended West Genesee HS and played hockey, lacrosse and baseball. The 3 oldest boys attended Clarkson College and are all civil engineers and the youngest went to Lafayette College and is a financial analyst. We moved to SC in Sept of 2004 because of the CNY weather as I drove snowplow for 20 years in Camillus and we were sick of the snowy winters(we averaged 180" of snow a year). Tweety had been a paralegal since she graduated from business school. We loved SC and got started in geocaching there after reading an article published in the Sun News and fell in love with caching because of the interesting and historical sites places it brought us to. In March of 2007 we had found just about all the caches within 50-60 miles of Myrtle Beach and we have always wanted to travel so we decided to sell our house and buy an RV and travel the U.S. and cache as we went. We finally did get the house sold and picked up our RV last October and we were off. We went back to SC for awhile to get use to RV living and then set out in January of 2008. We went down through SC and GA, into AL, down into the FL panhandle, back up into AL, over into MS and LA, then back into MS and up into TN and then back up into the northeast for the summer to visit our sons. We have been to Camillus and visited our son and his family there and saw all our old friends. We then went to Binghamton NY, then on to Colchester, CT, and lastly to Branchburg, NJ and saw the rest of our sons and their families. We are presently back in CT and are leaving to go back to NY for another short stay before we head back on the road again around September 3rd. We will be traveling down to the Outer Banks of NC for a 2 week stay there and then we are on to Myrtle Beach for 4 months, to visit our friends there, before we set off on the road again to who knows where. If anyone is interested we do have our own blog that we do for our friends and family and the web site is www.2lostsoulsotheroad.blogspot.com. We have had such a great time caching these last 9 months and it is amazing the number of great caches we have found and the wonderful places we have visited and seen had it not been for caching. We also do a column for the Grand Strand Geocachers monthly newsletter on our travels around the U.S. Well time to say goodbye to all you OBW's and it has been so nice meeting the ones that we have met so far and hope to meet many more of you in the future.

Dori & Dick........Tweety & Coach........ftjak

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