Western Road Trip 2013

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

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