Tag: Road trip
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Monterey Getaway
We packed our bags, loaded our bikes and made a quick getaway Tuesday morning, escaping the smoke filled Oregon skies and daily thumping overhead as the new roof project continues back home. Our destination? Monterey, California where the only things cooler than coastal temps are competing restaurant signs.
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Goodnight From Harris Beach State Park in Oregon
We are enjoying a four-day escape from home where work has begun on a new roof for our town home. Longtime friends, Kathy and Doug, drove their trailer up from California, joining us to camp and explore Oregon's beautiful Coast. We finished dinner just in time to rush down to the beach and catch the…
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Backroads Across America: A Destination Called Home
Our lap around the United States took us to 25 states in 61 days, covering 9,833 miles. We spent 58 nights in RV parks, state campgrounds and one federal camp. We stayed three nights in motels when the weather was just too much. The average cost of our RV stays was $39. We paid…
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Backroads Across America: Rafter J Delivers
The Rafter J-Bar Ranch, pictured above, is one of our favorite campgrounds. In the Black Hills of South Dakota, it offers wide-open spaces, every amenity a family could want (except most sites do not offer TV service), in a setting that rivals the best state parks. Custer and his army stayed here in 1874 and…
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Backroads Across America: Surprise! Here’s Yellowstone!
“It has to be one of the best RV parks ever! We have been staying there every summer for years.” My ears were tuned in as I sipped a glass of wine a couple of days ago at our RV home near Little Bighorn Battlefield in southwestern Montana. I overheard a full-time RVer tell a neighbor about…
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Backroads Across America: Black Hills Give It Up
The drive to Mount Rushmore National Memorial gives visitors several frames for one of the world’s most spectacular engineering achievements. When you steer along Iron Mountain Road, go counterclockwise if you want the four presidents in your windshield. A quick detour: Can you name the four presidents? (Answer below) The 17-mile road was designed…
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Backroads Across America: Hunting Buffalo
Custer State Park in South Dakota is home to a herd of approximately 1,300 buffalo. These magnificent animals can be seen roaming freely throughout the grasslands. The best way to view them is from the safety of your vehicle while driving the 18 mile Wildlife Loop Road…which is what we did today. Park grasslands can…
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Backroads Across America: Wall-to-Wall Wildlife
From prairie dogs to a rattlesnake, the wildlife was out today during our roadside stops in Badlands National Park as we drove toward the Black Hills in South Dakota. Then, a brief visit to Wall Drugs brought Sue up close to another kind of wild guy. The town of Wall, South Dakota, on I-90,…
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Backroads Across America: Yeah, South Dakota!
To be honest, Tuesday’s drive, 320 miles across the fairly flat farmlands of northern Iowa, was uneventful. We were not tempted to pull off and explore. The two Misses rivers on either side of Iowa were beautiful, though. As we left North Sioux City in southeastern South Dakota this morning, the landscape quickly became…
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