Tag: travel
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Fort Ransom Demands Payment
Payment for our 2-night stay at Fort Ransom State Park in North Dakota that is. This jewel of a state park, which takes its name from an 1860 military fort, is situated southwest of Fargo and surrounded by farm and ranch land. The park itself seems to be carved from the tall grasslands that North…
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is divided into three areas. We opted out of the gravel road to the Elkhorn Ranch section, the site of one of Rosevelt’s ranches. Having explored the southern area Wednesday, we drove the 65+ miles from our campsite to see what the Northern area of the park had to offer. Interestingly,…
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
We rolled into Sully Creek State Park outside the little village of Medora, North Dakota, looking forward to a three-night stay. Once parked, we realized the promised water hookup was missing. What the heck? After a quick chat with the ranger, we realized that we must have received bad intel. Nobody else in the campground…
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Hop, Skip And Jump
With Mount Thielsen in the rear view mirror, we began a hop, skip and jump series of one-night-stands as we traveled farther north, closer to the spot where the real fun begins. We hit the jackpot in Roundup, Montana at Cowbelles County Park. An uncrowded free-for-all sort of a setup where we tried out several…
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Who Were We Kidding?
The discussion began last fall when we had time to kill while camping on the Oregon coast. Always curious about new RV floor plans, Reg pulled into a dealership where we were able to wander through a variety of models without a salesperson breathing down our necks. We’d been mostly happy with our Winnebago. At…
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The Enchanted Hills
Who could resist hiking a trail through such a magical-sounding place? Not carryoncouple, that’s for sure. With a name like Enchanted Hills, one might hope to find a fairy-tale castle, complete with rainbows and unicorns. Well, no such luck, but we did enjoy a sweeping view from atop Enchanted Peak. This was another hike in…
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We Won’t Be Fooled Again
We should have known better than to assume our first steep, rocky climb along the Brown Mountain Loop Trail would land us at the high point. The trail is considered moderately challenging with less than 700 feet of elevation gain. We thought we’d nailed the climbing in record time. Until we looked ahead. As it…
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Mount Lemmon – A Sweet Spot
Despite being described as a “fun hike” by our AllTrails app, we were content to leave the 2,332 foot climb up Thimble Peak outside of Tucson to more determined thrill-seekers. Driving up to Mt. Lemmon along the 27-mile Sky Island Parkway, part of the U.S. National Scenic Byway system, we found plenty of pullouts, and…
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Old Tucson Roundup
What do you get when you combine the spirit of the Old West with a little movie magic history? The answer, we discovered, is Old Tucson, a film set and family theme park set against a backdrop of rugged Arizona mountains and saguaro cactus. Definitely cowboy country. To be honest, we weren’t sure this was…
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