Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
Who Knew? New Bern was the 1st capitol of NC! We learned this when we googled New Bern the day before arriving! We’d planned a short, 3-night stop here, so we could do a day trip to Cape Lookout. It was also time for The Beast’s 95K oil change/tire rotation. Read more…
First visit to North Carolina! We’ve driven through a few times, but this is our 49th State to “really” visit together, our 34th state to camp in! And where did we start? In Rodanthe on Hatteras Island, in the middle of the Outer Banks. We could watch the sunrise over Read more…
Ten days in the Hudson Valley, MOSTLY at RSEi! We stayed in Averill Park, NY (southeast of Albany & Troy) for 7 nights, followed by 3 nights in Rhinebeck, an hour south along the Hudson River. We spent MOST of our 1st week in Troy, MOSTLY at the Rensselaer Society Read more…
OR…Leaf Peeping from Vermont… …as we were camping at Quechee State Park in Vermont, on the border with New Hampshire, and spent our time visiting places in Vermont and New Hampshire. We drove & walked through some spectacular fall foliage (cover photo taken from the Easy Over Gondola at Stowe Read more…
All around Katahdin We spent 6 nights camping just 8 miles south of the Baxter State Park South Entrance. Baxter State Park, among many other things, is home to Katahdin and Mount Baxter, the end of the Appalachian Trail. The first day, we visited Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument Read more…
…Point, Town, Campground, and Lighthouse! We have spent the last 5 nights at the Easternmost campground in the US (Sunset Point RV Park), in the Easternmost town (Lubec, Maine), home of the Easternmost Lighthouse (West Quoddy). We’re also in the land of high tide ranges, i.e. close to the Bay Read more…
Yep! Another exciting weather event! Hurricane Lee, now Post Tropical Cyclone Lee, has passed by us. Started raining about midnight and we expect it won’t stop until sometime this evening. Ditto for the wind, which are not the worst we’ve experienced. (Dust storms in Alamogordo, NM and Amarillo, TX rocked Lizzy Read more…
Not a lot of Cape Cod, but we did see Nauset Light! We camped in Shawmee-Crowell State Forest, just south of the Canal in Sandwich, so, officially on the Cape. We spent most of our time (3 days) hanging out in camp , what with the rain and all. OK. Read more…
Eight nights in Jersey City, across the Hudson from NYC Very interesting RV Park…location, location, location, just a 10 minute walk from the Liberty Harbor Ferry, which crosses the Hudson to Lower Manhattan in just 10 minutes, for $6 (senior rate.) In 7 days, we took 5 day trips to Read more…
While Lizzy got a 5-Year Check-Up at Colonial Airstream… We left New Jersey a week ago Tuesday, for a 9-day Road Trip to Philadelphia, Annapolis, and Dover. In 9 days (including stops enroute, on 3 driving days) we packed in quite a bit, walking quite a few miles as we Read more…