Tag: Trailer Travel
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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: 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: 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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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: Magnolia Springs State Park
We scored another winner tonight in the Georgia State Park system. While we couldn’t ask for a more restful setting, Magnolia Springs hasn’t always been a quiet little campground. Magnolia Springs has a story to tell. Back in 1864 this area was known as Camp Lawton, a prison established by the Confederate Army to hold…
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Backroads Across America: Georgia offers State Park stay
Yesterday we managed to reserve Saturday (tonight) and Sunday night in FD Roosevelt State Park in the beautiful state of Georgia. I suspect we may have snagged the last spot available for the weekend. After I checked us in (and realized we had lost yet another hour when crossing the border into Georgia), I was…
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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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Backroads Across America: Historic Natchez, Mississippi
Perched on the bluffs above the Mississippi River is the historically rich town of Natchez. The area was home to the Natchez Indians when the French arrived in 1716. Soon after, with the arrival of English and Spanish settlers, the inevitable territorial tug-of-war began. In 1797, the first American flag was raised and the…
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