Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
From SW Missouri to NW Arkansas This is Lizzy‘s 1st time camping in Arkansas (State #42) and our 1st time to actually visit. It was a “fun” drive through the mountains to get here. We’d planned only 2 nights (campground closes today), but discovered we could stay 1 more, so Read more…
Our 3rd Springfield (only camped, didn’t really visit this one) The most populated city in the US named Springfield and on Route 66. The other two we’ve visited are just a bit smaller…in Massachusetts, the “City of Firsts” where many innovations were developed (e.g. first American dictionary & first American Read more…
Leaving the Great River Road for Route 66 We got some chores done (i.e. 115K mile oil change for The Beast) and… Visited 1 new National Park Site and 1 revisit : Heading SW along Route 66 today For more pictures, see (in-work) Adventure Album: Great River Road / Route Read more…
Staying at Mark Twain Cave Campground We just spent the last 2 days being “very touristy” for us…the most since our day in Tombstone in early 2023. We took/visited the Historic Hannibal Trolley Tour, the Mark Twain Riverboat Tour, the Mark Twain Cave Tour, the Mark Twain Boyhood Home Museum Read more…
Farther south on the Great River Road, between Iowa & Illinois We spent a few hours, over 2 days, visiting the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa. Very Cool! We even got to tour the William M Black Dredge Boat. We also spent an afternoon in Galena, Read more…
Between Iowa and Wisconsin Camping on the north side of Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, right across the Mississippi River from Harpers Ferry, Iowa, where we… Visited 1 new National Park Site: Effigy Mounds National Monument (#263), where 200 plus American Indian mounds, are located in one of the most picturesque Read more…
Cornfields and the Northern Lights Staying at only our 4th Harvest Host site, in Dakota, Minnesota (just a hop, skip and a jump from the Mississippi River), we had a very pleasant day yesterday. Shopping at the Farm Store, we bought some farm fresh eggs, our first ever Beef Bacon Read more…
In just 21/2 days Camping northwest of Minneapolis (in Maple Grove), we spent a most of our 9 days (before and after our Whirlwind Trip to the Northeast) “just” getting organized, packing, unpacking & recouping from the trip! NOT to mention, a better part of a day getting new brakes Read more…
Leaving Lizzy and The Beast in Minneapolis We just spent 13 days (~1,500 miles in a rental car) in 4 states … Scranton included a Brief Re-Visit to 1 National Park Site: Steamtown National Historic Site (#14-Revisit), where we had an hour to look around again. Could have been 3 Read more…
Voyageurs, Northern Lights & the Ice Box of the US! We camped on Kabetogama Lake, on a cliff overlooking the lake, <1 mile from the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center for Voyageurs NP, which put us between Ash River Visitor Center to the south and Rainy River Visitor Center to the Read more…