Our trek to Fairbanks, Alaska (population 32,515) was 3,590 miles long. We intentionally took 45 days to get there, choosing to experience the drive by camping a minimum of 3 days at each stop. This is the first of 15 blogs, which capture each of those travel legs and stops. Where appropriate, I’ve included pictures…
Before retiring from the Air Force in 1998, I was sent to the base Dental Clinic to receive my end-of-service check-up and treatment. It included replacing all seven of my crowns with gold ones, because “these should last you for the next 20 years.” Ten years later the crown on tooth #19 came off. Fortunately,…
I established a hiking regimen for our 21-day drive to Issaquah, WA. Except for our 5-day stop at Hill AFB, UT, the remaining 6 stops were each for 3 days. My plan was to chill on the day we arrived, hike a minimum of 3 miles each morning thereafter (except for the day of departure)….
We’re venturing to Alaska for the summer of 2024. It’s the only state neither of us have been to yet. In order to reduce the number of miles we’ll have to tow, we decided to winter in Washington. But even with that, we’ll still be 2,158 miles from Fairbanks. I’m estimating the drive will take…
We traveled from Las Vegas to Page, AZ on the recommendation of our friends and fellow RVers, Dave and Kathy Pasillas. Specifically, Dave encouraged us to tour the Lower and Upper Antelope Canyons; however, the area also featured famous Horseshoe Bend, Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell, and more fantastic Arizona scenery. Our Page adventure began…
Of course stays in Vegas; but then, we didn’t really do that much. Our primary goals were to visit with Larry Paulfrey; Susan Miller and husband Chuck; and Vinni Masteguim of the famous Blue Man Group. Anything else would just be gravy. First, we had breakfast with Larry at his favorite casino, the Aliante in…
We visited Bart Bartlett during our earlier trip to SoCal (see Visiting SoCal – Part 1), and before we parted, he suggested we met again in Cornville, AZ during one of his frequent trips there. Just before we left Phoenix, we agreed to meet him on the 3rd of September. He came back to us…
Saskatoon was our next planned extended stop after Winnipeg. The most direct route there was to take Trans Canadian Highways 1 and 16, but we preferred a more country route, which took us north along Lake Manitoba, and had us cross at a spot called The Narrows. This sounded much more interesting, so we drove…
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…
