Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
Camping in Monroe, Virginia …about a mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway, MP 61.4 entrance, and not so high in the mountains as at Fancy Gap, at only 1,031′. First day here it RAINED all day and ended with nearby tornado warnings. That was a hang out/laundry day. Then we Read more
Camping in Fancy Gap, Virginia Less than a mile from the Blue Ridge, MP 199.4 entrance. We’re definitely in the mountains. At 2,914′, it got Cold at night, below freezing the first night! And Fancy Gap KOA, besides providing us with Eclipse sunglasses, provided a Weather Rock. It was quite Read more
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