Headin' Down the Highway
Ellis Walentine Why is it that winter vacations always seem to begin with major histrionics and high drama? As we prepared to leave on our most recent journey, we were hit with 18″ of snow and temperatures in the single digits. Our regular snow plow guy didn’t even attempt to plow us out, since our driveway was … Read more
At noon today, we finally arrived back at Mariel and Rob’s house in Hudson, Ohio, just two and a half hours from our final campsite on the western tip of Lake Erie, in Monroe, Michigan. I made a point of being prepared for sunrise, and I was amply rewarded. Our camper was parked literally 50 … Read more
Well, it is with utmost sadness that I must say the Rockies are behind us, not that the Great Plains and Lake States don’t have their redeeming qualities, like endless sky and straight roads. But, the voracious mosquitos and stable flies are not our idea of hospitality, and they’ve pretty much dominated, perhaps dampened, our … Read more
You may have guessed by the scarcity of new blogposts here that Candy and I are having too much fun to blog. This post comes to you from Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta. It is contiguous with Glacier National Park just across the international boundary just south of here. We landed here after … Read more
Well, we are now 6,000+ miles and 40 days into our trip, we’ve visited ten national parks, traversed thirteen states, visited with two of our children, and now we’re in southeastern British Columbia, camped alongside the gorgeous Okanagan Lake in a lovely wooded campsite. Today, we head toward Jasper, 475 kilometers north and east of … Read more
On Wednesday, June 12, we arrived at the mountaintop hideaway of our son March and his partner Stephanie near Scappoose, Oregon, northeast of Portland, this after a whirlwind tour of the northern California coast, Crater Lake and the Willamette National Forest of central Oregon. (Prior to that, and since our brief visit to Las Vegas, … Read more
We had no idea when we started this blog that it would be so hard to find the time and the internet connections we needed to keep it up properly, or that I’d be working with unfamiliar software on a different computer. Suffice it to say that we have a couple thousand pictures of our … Read more
This post is going to be a short one, as we’re heading off to Moab, Utah, today, on the start of our canyons tour. I haven’t been posting because my computer died several days ago and I had to buy a new one. It’s been a struggle to try to figure out Windows 8 and … Read more
Well, after months of planning and weeks of final packing and tidying up the homestead, we shoved off for points west on Monday, May13. We’d hoped to be on our way by 9 am but were grateful to have gotten away before noon. Here’s a shot of our camper just before I disconnected her from … Read more
Here are a few photos from our recent trip that I meant to post earlier. The first is of the full moon rising over an incredibly picturesque restaurant where we ate on Contadora Island. The second is another view at that restaurant, and the third is the view out the window of an amazing hotel … Read more
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