Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
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
Lots of Family Time! From New Holland, we got to visit Gail’s cousin Lee Ann a couple of times, just before her birthday, so it included 2 birthday dinners, one at her house with friends, and one a cookout in camp, when she came to meet Lizzy. Then we got Read more
Made it to Amish Country…3rd stop in Pennsylvania! We spent another week around Donora, PA, mostly visiting Mark’s family. Then we spent 4 nights/3 days in Gettysburg. There we spent a day in Harrisburg and 2 days in Gettysburg. Some fun included: Spending Joy’s Birthday in Pittsburgh! Spontaneous! Walk across Read more
So Much History! We stayed in Lebanon, between Dayton and Cincinnati for 6 nights, where we squeezed in 5 days of touring, followed by 2 nights at Buckeye Lake for 1 day of touring in Columbus, a bit short, due to the rain. Didn’t make it to Hopewell Culture National Read more
Illinois & Indiana Capitols & last Route 66 Stop (for now) We bypassed St. Louis, to go where we haven’t been before, but we still got to visit with an old St. Louis work friend of Mark’s. Jim and his wife drove up from southern Illinois to see us in Read more
Three stops in a week…Missouri-Kansas-Missouri We moved Northeast from central Oklahoma to central Missouri over the last week, taking a bit of a Zig-Zag route (including ), with 3 stops: Joplin, MO for 2 nights, Lawrence, KS (between Topeka & Kansas City) for 3 nights, and Columbia, MO (north of Read more
Our First “Real” Visit to Oklahoma We drove through Oklahoma on I-40 in January 2013, with only one, short stop. So, it only barely “counted” as state visit a at all. That has been rectified! And…no more snow…actually above 70o every day! Although, we did have lightning last night, and Read more