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Cochiti Lake Campground – Santa Fe, New Mexico (Part Two) – April 15 – 27, 2023

This is Part Two of our stay at Cochiti Lake Campground and Santa Fe, New Mexico to visit our friends, Tim and Alan. Part One can be read here. Wednesday, April 19, 2023 we drove into Santa Fe to meet our long-time friends, Tim and Alan, at their timeshare for a tour of Santa Fe …

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Billy the Kid Gravesite and Bosque Redondo – Fort Sumner, New Mexico – April 8, 2023

We left Reddy Vineyards in Brownfield, Texas around 9:30am on Saturday, April 8, 2023 to head to our next stop, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. But along the way we saw a sign on the road that said we could see Billy the Kid’s gravesite if we took a turn off and drove 10 miles. Since …

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Potter’s Creek Campground – Canyon Lake, Texas – March 19 – 28, 2023

On Sunday, March 19, 2023 we left our first beach boondocking spot on Surfside Beach in Freeport, Texas and drove an extra hour out of our way to Potter’s Creek Campground outside of Canyon Lake, Texas for a nine night stay. Why did we drive an extra hour out of our way? Well for some …

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Natchez State Park – Natchez, MS – March 2 – 5, 2023

Thursday morning, March 2, 2023 we got up, got everything torn down/hooked up and left Davis Bayou Campground in Ocean Springs, Mississippi for a 3 1/2 hour drive to Natchez State park in Natchez, Mississippi. This was going to be a short three-day stay so Cindy could see some old Antebellum homes, but we also …

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Memphis, Tennessee – Blues, B.B. King, and Beale Street – October 6 – 11, 2022

After our quick visit to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas on Thursday, October 6, 2022, we were back on the road to our next stay; the T.O. Fuller State Park just outside the city best-known for its roots to the music of Blues and Rock ‘n Roll, Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis …

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Belle Starr Campground on Lake Eufala, Oklahoma – October 2 – 5, 2022

On Sunday October 2, 2022 we left the Black Kettle Campground in Oklahoma and drove 271 miles to the Belle Starr Campground on Lake Eufala in Oklahoma. If you’ve kept up with our postings this name might be familiar because this was our second stay at this campground, as we were here a little over …

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San Jon, NM and Black Kettle Campground, OK – September 24 – October 2, 2022

On Saturday, September 24, 2022 we left the Cochiti Lake Recreation Center in New Mexico and drove 218 miles east to San Jon, New Mexico for a one-night stay at a county park on our way to Black Kettle Campground in the grasslands of Oklahoma. San Jon was a nice little county park that allowed …

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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park – Milk River, Alberta – August 4

When we arrived at Under Eight Flags Campground the previous day, the campground manager gave us some information on a nearby grocery store and Truck/RV Wash (both Nomad and Voyager were filthy from our drives through Canada and Alaska). She also told us about the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and their hoodoos (a tall, thin spire …

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Under Eight Flags – Milk River, Alberta – August 3

Wednesday, August 3, 2022 we left the wonderful town of Vulcan, Alberta and drove 181 kilometers (112 miles) south to Milk River, Alberta. This would be our last location staying in Canada before crossing back into the Lower 48 a few days later. We first crossed into Canada 2 months earlier on June 4, 2022 …

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Live Long and Prosper – Vulcan, Alberta – August 1-2

Back many moons ago, when we were planning this portion of our return trip from Alaska, we couldn’t help but notice that we would be driving by the home planet of Mr. Spock of Star Trek. Yes, your intrepid explorers would be making an almost-planetary stop at Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. On Sunday, July 31, 2022 …

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