Great adventures in diving, RVing and travel
Our final trip of 2022 commenced a short distance up the coast in Ventura County, California. We camped for three nights on the Rincon Parkway, along the old Pacific Coast Highway between Ventura and Santa Barbara. This is a wild experience because you open your front door onto the Pacific …
Since 2022 has been the year of short trips for us, we had to fit in a couple more before the end of the year. Our trip to the Palm Springs area for Thanksgiving was our shortest RV trip ever, since I couldn’t leave home until I’d completed a teacher …
For our final leg of this RV trip in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, we headed back down U.S. 395, stopping for three nights in the small town of June Lake (just north of Mammoth Lakes). There are four lakes that form the June Lake Loop, and we were positioned …
After leaving Lone Pine, CA, we headed 150 miles north along U.S. 395, which is in the best shape of any highways we’ve traveled in a long time! On the way, we stopped in Bishop to grab lunch and bread at Erick Schatz’s Bakery (thanks, Amy, for another great recommendation!). …
Some Californians regularly visit the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains (skiing in Mammoth, climbing Mt. Whitney, or heading up the back way to Yosemite or Lake Tahoe), but we haven’t traveled to this area in over 25 years! We hope it won’t be another 25 years before we come through here …
After watching the UCLA Men’s Basketball Team beat the University of Washington at Pauley Pavilion (sorry, brother Ron), we headed out in our RV in late February for some desert discovery time. UCLA beats Univ of Washington!!! Camping at Puddingstone Reservoir–right-hand sign designed and built by our nephew and brother-in-law! …
We wound up this RV trip with stays at Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming) and two state parks in Colorado. Grand Teton National Park has been a favorite of ours for several years, and this was our 4th trip in 5 years. We were a little early to get the …
This was our fifth trip to Yellowstone in five years, so we didn’t feel a need to run around and do everything. We could be strategic and prioritize a few things we had not done before, plus focus on wildlife sightings. If you read our Glacier post, you know how …
During Week 4 of our West Coast/Rocky Mountain RV trip, we crossed Idaho and entered Montana, delighting in the mountains and trees of I-90. Our night in Missoula gave us a chance to find a good barbecue place, and the Notorious P.I.G. fit the bill (though no ribs were available …
Our first week on Maui was spent mostly in the water, so we added a little variety into our second week. Haleakala National ParkSome people like to get up at 3:00 a.m. to drive to the summit of Haleakala (over 10,000 feet) for sunrise. We did that once, so we …