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Backroads Across America: Going With the Flow
All of a sudden the ill winds are flowing all around us. The threat of extreme weather has blocked much of our westward path…and northward and southward paths too! We intended to take the better part of a week driving around the coast of Michigan and continuing into Wisconsin, taking in the sights along the…
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Backroads Across America: A Good Day for a Walk in the Park
Just a few miles outside of Charleston, West Virginia lies Kanawha State Forest Park encompassing over 9,000 acres of recreational land and facilities. Development of the park began in 1938 when the Civilian Conservation Corps established Camp Kanawha and began cleaning up and improving the area. Work continued until 1942 when World War II began…
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Backroads Across America: On the Banks of the Kanawha
Another day of clouds and drizzle sent us to downtown Charleston to explore West Virginia’s capital city. After a leisurely cup of coffee in a downtown coffee/bookstore, we wandered along a walkway that follows the Kanawha (Ka-naw) River, which flows through the city. Charleston’s present state capitol took eight years to complete, with work beginning…
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Backroads Across America: Big Plusses to Going Small
Notes from the backroads, week six We have continued pull one of the smallest trailers, often less than half the size of other RVs. Even after all this time, we feel we have everything we need and we have not even come close to strangling each other. There are advantages to going small: –We can…
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Backroads Across America: Asheville Leaves Us With Questions
Eclectic, mild climate, college town, surrounded by the spectacular Blue Ridge Mountains. City traffic hassles, parking challenges, a place rough around the edges. Both descriptions fit Asheville, North Carolina. A city of 87,000, there are 425,000 in the metropolitan area. It was raining when we set out this morning, so we jumped on the…
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Backroads Across America: These Stores Fit the Bill
We wish we had 99 cents for every one of these stores we have seen since Texas. Virtually every town has had at least one, usually both. In some places, they are two of very few businesses still open. In larger places, retail activity has moved from downtown to places like…(drumroll?) Walmart.
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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: The Place Where FDR died
We came to Warm Springs, Georgia for its amazing scenery and to stay at Franklin Delano Roosevelt State Park, the state’s largest, seen at top on our drive today. History was another attraction. FDR came here for more than 20 years to bathe in the warm waters that helped him cope with the paralysis caused…
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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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