Category: Backroads Across America
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Backroads Across America: Stayin’ Alive in Tombstone
We unhitched the trailer, hitched up our pants and drove our Taco(ma) to Tombstone, Arizona today for a rip-roarin’ time. Once home to 10,000 silver miners, 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, as well as numerous dance halls and brothels, Tombstone attracts about 450,000 city slickers each year. We were determined to fit in like locals…
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Backroads Across America: Icons of the Southwest
With time to fill between stops in Arizona, we took a short detour toward the Rincon Mountain District and Saguaro National Park (East). Unfamiliar with what the park offered, we once again found ourselves leading the trailer along a narrow, scenic 8-mile loop through a historic cactus forest. It felt a little bit like a…
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Backroads Across America: Contrasts Galore
Several weeks and a “few” miles apart, we present views of the great outdoors on the slopes of Mt. Ashland, Oregon and overlooking Sedona, Arizona.
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Backroads Across America: Views from Sedona
During two days in the Sedona, Arizona area, we have enjoyed stunning scenery and great weather. A bit warm (low 80s) for March, but we are not complaining. After an early morning look at Bell Rock (top photo), we grabbed a coveted parking spot at Cathedral Rock for a steep scramble. Two photos show a…
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Backroads Across America: Driving with confidence
As I paid our entrance fee at Jerome State Historic Park in southern Arizona I heard the couple behind me asking Reg if we were driving the truck and trailer they saw winding along up the road in front of them. They just may have thought we were nuts! The old copper mining town of…
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Backroads Across America: Route 66 calls
Wind, mountains and speeding truckers could not keep us from logging 1,000 miles during the first three days of our RV adventure across America. We took a walk in Kingman, AZ today and made coffee to spur us toward Williams, where our wee trailer seemed dwarfed in the Good Sam campground. Our neighbors in a…
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Backroads Across America: RVing in Las Vegas
Yep, we are RVing on the Las Vegas Strip near this clown! (I didn’t mean it that way.) After two long days on the windy roads, we needed a walk down the Strip to the Venetian, where we had wine and a meal that would have made a Tuscan chef proud. So much for…
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Backroads Across America: One last look back
As we said goodbye to the West Coast yesterday and drove south toward warmer climates, I had to share one last look at what we left behind. Mt. Shasta rose magnificently above the clouds as we sped down the interstate.
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Backroads across America: Our sun sets in Hawthorne
Reg did an phenomenal job of driving today, putting far more miles behind us than we had planned for and delivering us to the perfect roadside stop. Considering this is our first trip of the year, and a long one at that, we set up our site in what seemed like record time. We poured…
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