Tag: Backroads
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Wimer Bridge Spans More Than a Century
Covered bridges never fail to conjure up romantic images of days gone by. All have stories to tell and the Wimer Covered Bridge in Southern Oregon is certainly no exception. Spanning Evans Creek for more than a century, Wimer Bridge has experienced several transformations since it’s original construction in 1892. It was completely replaced in…
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Backroads Across America: Big Sky Country
Today we wound our way out of the Black Hills of South Dakota, snuck through a corner of Wyoming and arrived in Montana – Big Sky Country. The gently rolling hills of Montana’s eastern plains seem to stretch on forever…and so does the sky above them. It seems like spring has been late arriving in…
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Backroads Across America: Good Times in the Badlands
Badlands National Park appears rather suddenly among the grasslands of South Dakota. These seemingly harsh lands are the result of millions of years of earth’s ever-changing climate. This is a landscape of extremes. We arrived yesterday to clear blue skies and warm temperatures, the first we’ve had in two and a half weeks. Pulling into…
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Backroads Across America: More Than Bad Weather Brewing For Us
We opted for a second night at our Dubuque, Iowa hotel as we waited for wind and snow flurries to blow through the western part of the state. To fill our rainy day, we decided to follow the scenic Mississippi River drive outlined in our guidebook. It seemed simple enough, but wouldn’t you know it…another…
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Backroads Across America: Squeezing in Our Campground
We’re spending the night in southern Virginia where spring is just beginning to show its colors. Our campsite was surrounded by trees, but there was barely a leaf to be seen. It looked quite winter-like. A good night for what Reg calls “Comfort Food.” Although he rolled his eyes when I dropped this in our…
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Backroads Across America: Scenes From the Rearview Mirror
Today was a turning point…literally. This morning we headed left out of Hickory Knob State Park Campground, where we spent the last two nights, and watched as South Carolina disappeared behind us. Today marks the point of our trip when we get serious about heading west and eventually returning home to Oregon. Hickory Knob was…
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Backroads Across America: Crossover Hookups!?
Notes from the road Cowboy bar: Get on your motorcycle, drive to Bandera, Texas, in the Hill Country just north of San Antonio. The 11th Street Cowboy Bar is not to be missed. Backroads? Have we been true to our blog title? Mostly. We found it tough in Arizona and New Mexico. There aren’t as…
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Backroads Across America: It’s the East Coast!
Cross country, coast to coast, backroads across America — whatever you call it, we have alas made it to the East Coast! The Mt. Pleasant KOA (photos above), just east of Charleston, SC, is our home for the next three nights. We will have to cope with 80 degrees and low humidity. This is yet…
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Backroads Across America: Alabama Paradise for $11
Perfect spring conditions framed our drive today, which began with the first 100 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway, a beautiful 444-mile two-lane path from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. We left the National Park Service-maintained trail at Jackson and caught Highway 80 east across Mississippi. A fellow camper (traveling from Santa Barbara, California)…
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