Lake City (population 5,063) sits on the south side of Lake Pepin, where 100 years ago Ralph Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing. After some trial and error, both in making the skis and developing the technique for rising out of the water on them, the 18-year old Samuelson, while being pulled behind a…
Our next major stop was Lake City, MN for projects at the Zugay House; however, we were running too early for the agreed arrival date. To bide our time, we found a decent park in the small Village of Dorchester, WI (population 876), which sat quietly in the middle of Wisconsin dairy farms. The town…
We’ve been at this full-time camping gig for about two and a half years now, and you’d think we’d had enough experience to avoid making any mistakes. Well, you would have to think again, as I’ll explain with embarassment. When we left our campsite in Gaylord, MI, we emptied our black tank but couldn’t flush…
When MFI was nine years old, her parents had to attend a family funeral in New York State, so they decided to make the trip a family vacation. Living in Oshkosh, WI at the time, rather than spend the time and gas money to travel around the south end of Lake Michigan, they took the…
In early 2021, we were invited to the wedding of Jonny Gomez, youngest brother of CJ and Michael, and Ailys Toledo, his long time girlfriend (at least as long as we’ve been a part of the extended family). The date was 5 February 2022, and we looked forward to attending the big celebration. We even…
Some RV parks are small enough and parking spots close enough to nature that you would expect to see wildlife now and then. We were lucky during the past year and a half to have three sightings worth mentioning. The first was in late July 2020 when we had returned to Pisgah View Ranch (Candler,…
On the 1st of December we moved Arthur from Cook’s Lake to the Midway RV Park on the Naval Support Activity Mid-South base in Millington, TN. Midway was only 13 miles from Cook’s Lake, but the base park is significantly cheaper per month and provides facilities such as the Navy Exchange, Commissary, and Fitness Center….
Arthur was parked at Cook’s Lake RV Park for November as we began our 5-month winter stay in the Memphis area. Across the winter, we planned on taking care of a number of personal items too difficult to accomplish when we’re on the road. But this situation also allowed us to drive Sid for some…
We left our walk along Niagara Falls after lunch with the intent of returning to our campsite. But because we had travelled 0ver 360 miles along the St Lawrence Seaway, we wanted to stop and see one of the locks. What luck! A google search identified Lock 3 along the Welland Canal as being on…
I normally wouldn’t blog about our campsites, since there have been so many. But our first stop after leaving Shediak was definitely worth a mention. We drove 238 miles to Sugarloaf Provincial Parc in Atholville, New Brunswick. Sugarloaf is the name of the extinct volcanic mountain, which lies within the park property. It was highly…
