El Paso, TX On Monday we left Carlsbad, NM and headed back to the southwest on US 62, the same route we used a few days earlier to get to Carlsbad. The road provides some great views as you pas...
York, PA Each year while on the east coast we head north for a visit with Pam’s mother, Fran, who lives in Clayton, NY along the beautiful St. Lawrence River. During our current extended stay in...
Iowa City, IA When we arrived at Sugar Bottom Recreation Area, a Corp of Engineers park just north of Iowa City, we had a reservation for four days. About 60% of the sites here are reservable w...
Iowa City, IA We’ve made our way south into central Iowa where we are staying at a nice COE (Army Corp of Engineer) park called Sugar Bottom Recreation Area. Fellow bloggers John and Sharon (On...
Tucson, AZ We are still here in Tucson enjoying the warm (at times hot) days and cool nights. In between the completion of some basic maintenance items on the motorhome, we have been enjoying so...
Tucson, AZ The nimble hiker has been busy planning hikes during our last week here in Tucson. So Monday and Tuesday were a bit busy as we completed two from her list. The first was a six mile...
Borrego Springs, CA Earlier this week we made the short (85 miles) trip from Desert Hot Springs to the little town of Borrego Springs, located in the center of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park...
Lone Pine, CA Just a few miles north of Lone Pine is a significant historical site, Manzanar War Relocation Center. While most important historical sites highlight events in American history th...
Lone Pine, CA There are two trails that begin at the Whitney Portal, 8,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We did one of the trails last week with Eric and Laurel. This morning we head...
Lone Pine, CA The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains just west of Lone Pine. The rounded contours of the hills contrast...
Bishop, CA On Sunday we made the short trip from Lee Vining to Bishop, CA, a distance of about sixty-three miles and are set up in Highlands RV Park for a week. Rte. 395 looking west with Highla...
Bishop, CA On Tuesday we took a break from playing tourist. John and Dave enjoyed a round of golf at Bishop Golf Course, a nice eighteen hole layout just south of town surrounded by the mountai...
Lee Vining, CA On Wednesday morning we drove south of our RV park here in Lee Vining to explore the June Lake Scenic Loop, a loop road about 15 miles long that passes by a number of beautiful l...
Lee Vining, CA We stayed in Carson City for an extra day to let some rainy weather pass. When Monday dawned with clear skies, we headed south on US-395 into the Eas...
Lee Vining, CA We stayed in Carson City for an extra day to let some rainy weather pass. When Monday dawned with clear skies, we headed south on US-395 into the Eas...
Carson City, NV One day during our stay here in Carson City we took a drive to check out some local scenes. First stop was a visit to the state capitol in downtown Carson City. The building wa...
Carson City, NV Between motorhome repairs and rainy days (desperately needed here) we did manage to get in two short hikes in the area, one near South Lake Tahoe and the other just outside Carso...
Park City, UT Friends Steve and Joan (FOSJ) have been spending the last few months working with a company that surveys roads for the Bureau of Land Management. They are currently in Nephi, UT,...
Park City, UT After a couple of rainy, cold days the skies over Park City cleared and the temperatures warmed into the low 70s (with no humidity!). That means only one thing to the nimble hiker...
Park City, UT Our next stop on our westward trek was to the Park City area in the Wasatch Mountains just west of Salt Lake City. We were able to get a nice site in nearby Jordanelle State Park....
Manila, UT We have wanted to visit Dinosaur National Monument for awhile now, but it never seems to be on any of our travel routes. Since it is within reasonable driving distance, we decided to...
Manila, UT The Uintah County Travel and Tourism Organization publishes a series of day trip brochures for the county. Each brochure provides information for points along the trip with each poin...
Manila, UT After our visit to Laramie we headed west on I-80, driving across rolling hills while fighting stiff headwinds. At Green River we turned south on WY-530 for 40 miles to the Lucerne C...
Greenwood, NE (between Lincoln and Omaha) After our stay along the Mississippi River south of Davenport, we drove over 300 miles across Iowa into Nebraska. We crossed the Missouri River south of...
Davenport, IA After a long drive from Indianapolis, we finally crossed the Mississippi into Iowa, our first time in the state with the motorhome. We drove south about seventeen miles along the w...
Louisville, KY OK, again it has been a while since our last post during a visit to the Thousand Islands in Northern New York. Since then we returned to our former home town of York, PA to compl...
Atlanta, GA In our last blog we were just finishing our visit to Oklahoma. We left there and continued our journey east in I-40. Since, like many people, we don’t like to drive long distances,...
Shawnee, OK We left Wichita, KS on Saturday and headed south for a visit to Oklahoma City, OK. After driving south on I-35 into the city, we turned east on I-40 and continued to Shawnee (birthp...
Newton, KS (north of Wichita) We dropping our daughter, Jessica, off at the Denver Airport on Wednesday morning for her return flight to Baltimore, returned to the motorhome, finished packing u...
Sheridan, CO (near Denver) While in the Denver area we have taken the opportunity to do some sight-seeing. Twice we joined fellow RVers on visits to local attractions. Both couples (Sue and Da...
Sheridan, CO (near Denver) One of the reasons for our visit to Denver was to be near an airport. Our daughter, Jessica, teaches school and usually flies to wherever we are located for a visit a...
Torrey, UT The weather forecast the lasts few days has had a chance of rain in the afternoon, so we have limited our hiking to short trails in the morning. One of those hikes was through Capito...
Torrey, UT The weather prediction here in central Utah has continued to include the chance of rain and thundershowers in the afternoon, not good for hiking in canyons and washes. So one day we...
Torrey, UT Our friend Annette, who lives near Torrey, told us about a hike just east of town that goes up to the top of Meeks Mesa. We did a bit of research and found that the trail is just wes...
Torrey, UT After a number of days with cold temperatures and the threat of rain, a few days of rain/snow mix, the sky’s around central Utah finally cleared on Monday. We decided to take advant...
Moab, UT Earlier this week we moved a hundred miles north from Bluff to Moab where we are staying in one of our favorite parks, Portal RV Resort. This park has two sections, a nice campground o...
Bluff, UT For one of our last outings here in the four corners area of southeastern Utah we decided to take David and Karen to the Moon House Ruins, a very neat set of ruins up on Cedar Mesa. ...
Bluff, UT Sunday was our last full day in southeastern Utah, so we decided to visit one more Puebloan ruins site. Our tour guide, that nimble hiker, had read somewhere about a site called the M...
Bluff, UT We have now left Arizona after wandering around the state for a couple of months and have moved on to the four corners section of Utah, one of our favorite places. We are now tucked n...
Prescott, AZ In our last couple of blogs we were hiking around and kayaking on Watson Lake in the rocks of Granite Dells. Across Rte. 89, which runs right through Granite Dells, there is anothe...
