Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
Camping near Asheville, North Carolina First of 3 stops moving north, adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway, through western North Carolina and Virginia. Revisits to 3 National Park sites (to see new-to-us sites): Day trip visit to 1 new National Park Site: No, we did not make it to the Read more…
Camping near Great Smoky Mountains National Park For our first time camping in Tennessee (State #38), we were less than 1/2 mile from the Cades Cove entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for 8 nights. We thought “the shoulder season” would be a good time to visit America’s most Read more…
Camping near the Alabama/Georgia/Tennessee Border Where we spent 5 days mostly visiting National Park sites. Our first stop was to the tri-state marker, where we took turns standing in 3 states, and 2 times zones at the same time! (so exciting.) That was day 1, enroute to Russell Cave, in Read more…
First stop in the Appalachians… …and our last stop in Alabama. We camped in Alabama’s DeSoto State Park, in Fort Payne, developed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is home to DeSoto Falls, the state’s highest waterfall (104-foot-tall). The park also borders the Little River, which flows Read more…
Camping on Lake Logan Martin in Riverside, Alabama We chose this campground, on a small lake off of the Coosa River, because it was between Birmingham and Anniston, two places where we wanted to visit National Park sites. And being on the water, we thought it would be nice for Read more…
Mostly Montgomery, plus Selma & Tuskegee WOW! We had 11 nights here, long enough to have some hangout days, get the 100K service done on The Beast, and still spend 7 days visiting many, many sites. Montgomery is known as the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Birthplace of the Read more…
In LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Jackson, Mississippi 5 nights on Mayes Lake…literally camping on the “inside curve” of the oxbow lake, and only 3 miles from downtown Jackson, Mississippi. We drove the first/southernmost 101.5 miles on the Natchez Trace Parkway to get here, and then spent our first day driving Read more…
A week in Vidalia, Louisiana… …across the river from Natchez, MS And while we very much enjoyed our view of the Mississippi from our campsite and walked along the Vidalia Riverwalk between our campsite and the river, we did most of our touring, in Natchez and out and about on Read more…
…now in Baton Rouge Here 5 nights, we thought we’d spend 2-3 days exploring Baton Rouge (Sunday was for Superbowl). However, we found out there was a BIG Mardi Gras Parade downtown on Saturday, and almost everything would be closed for Mardi Gras on Tuesday. SO…Monday we got out early Read more…
Last Stop on the Gulf Coast Camped west of New Orleans proper, in the outskirts of Kenner, where Mark worked a couple of times for AT&T. Also near the airport and across the street from the north levee of the Mississippi River. Also not far from a little memorial park, Read more…