Tag: Trailer life
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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: BBQ, Board Games and Breakfast
It’s been a whirlwind of a weekend since arriving in Charleston, West Virginia. Chris and Gail enjoyed a mini vacation when they spent Saturday night in a cabin at our campground. We enjoyed having them “right down the street,” if only for one night. After a barbecued steak dinner at the cabin, followed by two…
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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: 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: Blue Ridge Parkway Leads to Sierra Nevada
We awoke to gray skies and drizzle, so decided to take a sneak peek at the Blue Ridge Parkway this morning. Our hope has been to drive a small part of the 469 mile scenic highway on our way to West Virginia. Today was not the best day for views, but we definitely gained valuable…
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Backroads Across America: USA’s Biggest Home
It is the Gilded Age and you have become one of the world’s richest people by means of the shipping and railroad industries. What do you do with your riches? If you are George Vanderbilt, you spend 1889-1895 building America’s biggest house near Asheville, North Carolina. The Biltmore Estate, by the numbers: 255 rooms, 2.4…
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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: Charming Charleston, South Carolina
Since leaving home we’ve logged over 4,000 miles in the Tacoma. It was time to cash in on the last of the free oil changes Toyota offered when we bought the truck. Reg set his alarm for 6:00 this morning, so we were up and on the road early to make the 7:15 appointment on the…
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