Great adventures in diving, RVing and travel
We made it through our thunderstorms and mechanical challenges, arriving at Cave City, Kentucky (in the southwest part of the state) on Thursday. The cats and Hank were delighted to learn that we weren’t moving the RV again for three days! While we sit and await the Kentucky Derby (on …
We’ve had lots of questions about where we’re headed on this 15-week trip, so I thought I’d take this blog post to cover the broad strokes of our route. We have taken several long trips over the past few years, two months to Florida and back, two months to Minnesota …
July 2018 – This was a return trip to Yellowstone for us, so we only stayed three nights and stayed in the northern part of the park, around Mammoth Hot Springs and the Lamar Valley. We got up early to drive 180 miles and obtain a campsite in the first-come-first-served …
July 2018 – I had never heard of TR National Park (in western North Dakota) until I started doing research for our trip to Minnesota and the Dakotas, but we consider this one of the highlights of our 8-week trip, especially for wildlife viewing. TRNP has a North Unit and …
July 2018 — This national park is right on the Canadian border (with Minnesota) and without a boat, it’s a little challenging to explore, but we managed. There are no campgrounds you can reach, except by boat, so we stayed just outside the park in The Pines of Kabetogama Resort, which …
July 2018 — When we planned our trip to Minnesota and the Dakotas, this was the very first reservation we made because there are only two Windigo camper cabins on the western side of Isle Royale, and the reservations fill up quickly. We took the Voyageur II ferry over from …
June 2018 There is something both beautiful and eerie in the geologic formations that make up Badlands National Park. Badlands are areas where the clay soil erodes through wind and water action, creating weird peaks and both lush and dry valleys. The horizontal stripes in some of the formations are …
June 2018 If you love wildlife, the Game Lodge Campground in Custer State Park is a great place to be. The Wildlife Loop Road around Custer State Park provides up-close opportunities to see deer, elk, bison, pronghorn (antelope), wild burros, prairie dogs and more—evening and morning are best for wildlife …