We spent a full week down on the front range, visiting with my son and running my necessary paperwork errands needed to leave Colorado for an extended period. The heat of a July on the front range is pretty extreme, so an RV park with electric hookups was a must....
It took over six hours of driving, with an overnight stay in Wyoming, to make it from Rapid City to my home town in Colorado. We arrived a week and a day early thanks to Kerri’s South Dakota’s residency being so easy to resolve. This allowed me to start the...
The same weekend we went tent-camping, we popped into Grand Portage National Monument for a visit. It is a small National Park preserving the 10 miles portage that trappers from Western Canada had to deal with each year to get to the trading post stationed here. Here I learned that teams...
We left Duluth, heading North, for our weekend tent-camping trip. We chose not to haul the trailer the two hour drive, instead making arrangements for it to stay back in the small town of Two Harbors at the local Moose Lodge. After our return, we stayed the work week in...
We left Michigan, traveling West (yes!), on our way to the next big adventure of this year’s planned trip; a multi-day kayaking trip in Voyagers National Park. But first, Duluth Minnesota. Unbeknownst to us both at the time, we would pass through a portion of the state of Wisconsin as...
We arrived at the northern precipice of our 2017 travel route with ambitions to kayak along the shoreline during our two-day stay at Pictured Rocks National Seashore. It was not until the drive up from Sleeping Bear Dunes that we read of the kayak restrictions; 15 feet or longer and...
Thanks to Nina & Paul for turning us on to this great place. I had completely overlooked it in our route planning even though it is a National Lakeshore (part of the NPS). Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore would actually become my 100th National Park visited since I started this...
Yep, our visit to Kentucky was that quick. Actually a week long, but other than a work week we had only two days in the state that we did any sight seeing. We originally planned to stay two weeks, but instead decided to move at a faster route to cram...
Finally, some mountains! It has been far too long for this mountain man to be away from home. The Great Smoky Mountains came to my rescue – literally pulling me out of a months long funk of grumpiness (ask Kerri, she knows). I have been looking forward to visiting this...
After a two week stay, we rolled out of Savannah and its sweltering heat and oppressive humidity. Although we removed Charleston from our route before coming to the Savannah, the broken AC unit has forced our hand in making a multi-day stay in Charleston for a scheduled appointment at the...
