National Parks

White Mountain Trading Post in Mount Carmel, Utah May 14 – 21, 2024 (Part Three)

You can read Part One here and Part Two here. Friday was a day of errands. I drove 17 miles to Kanab and did laundry, bought a few groceries and ran Voyager through a much-needed car wash while Cindy cleaned Nomad. Bryce Canyon National Park Saturday morning, May 18th, we were up and out the […]

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Cindy and Jeff in front of The Court of Patriarchs in Zion National Forest

White Mountain Trading Post in Mount Carmel, Utah May 14 – 21, 2024 (Part Two)

Thursday morning, May 16, 2024 we were up and out the door at 6:15 am to drive to the Eastern entrance of Zion National Park. In the semi-darkness before the sun was up, we saw a coyote run across the road in front of us on the drive. No sign of a roadrunner. Zion National

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Sky in Utah May 14, 2024

White Mountain Trading Post in Mount Carmel, Utah May 14 – 21, 2024 (Part One)

We left Boulder Beach Campground at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada at 9 am on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 for a 5 1/2 hour drive to our 7-night stay at the White Mountain Trading Post Campground in Mount Carmel, Utah. I know the screenshot of the map shows a 4 hour and 15

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Cindy in front of a giant rattlesnake in the Boulder City Nature Discovery Trail and Rock Garden

Boulder Beach Campground at Lake Mead National Recreation Area May 10 – 14 (Part One)

We left Alamo Lake State Park on Friday, May 10th around 8:30 in the morning for a 5-hour drive to Boulder Beach Campground at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Boulder City, Nevada which is 26 miles outside of Las Vegas. We’re only here four nights and we have a LOT to see and

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1,000 Days of Full Time RV’ing

Today, May 11, 2024, marks day 1,000 of Cindy and I full time RV’ing across the United States and Canada. To say it has been an experience would be an understatement. When we started we only posted our stories and photos on our Facebook Page, but since you can’t trust Facebook (or Google, or Instagram

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Yellowstone Cellars and Winery – Buffalo Gap Guest Ranch – Billings, MT and Medora, ND – July 27 to August 2, 2023

We left Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park on Thursday, July 27th for a leisurely 188 mile drive to Billings, Montana. There, we’d be staying for one night at a Harvest Host location – the Yellowstone Cellars and Winery. It was located in an industrial portion of the city, so no grapevines on rolling hills

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Davis Bayou Campground – Gulf Island National Seashore – Ocean Springs, MS – February 21 – March 2, 2023

On Tuesday, February 21, 2023 we left Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park in Niceville, Florida and drove 170 miles to another bayou…the Davis Bayou Campground in Ocean Springs, Mississippi which is part of the Gulf Island National Seashore. We would be staying here for nine days as we make our way west across the

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Lyndhurst, Virginia – October 17 – 25, 2022

We left Mammoth Cave on Monday, October 17, 2022 and drove to Charleston, West Virginia for a one-night stay at Cracker Barrel. Cindy likes those stays since she doesn’t have to cook dinner or, usually, breakfast. On this stop we did both AND Cindy bought herself, Ann, and Amber each their own Costco-sized package of

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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (Part 2) – October 12 – 17, 2022

So, after messing up and not getting a ticket for a guided tour of Mammoth Cave, I bought one of the few tickets left for the self-guided tour of the Historic Entrance of the original cave that was found by John Houchin who, according to legend, discovered the entrance while hunting for black bear in

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Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky (Part 1) – October 12 – 17, 2022

Wednesday morning, October 12, 2022 we left the Sumner Crest Winery in Portland, Tennessee and drove a nice, short 81 miles to Mammoth Cave National Park in Southern Kentucky. The drive, though short, was beautiful as we enjoyed the leaves changing colors and raining down on us while we glided beneath them on the road.

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