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…
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…
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,…
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…
We purchased Arthur on 19 August 2019 at Chillhowee RV Sales and Service in Alcoa, TN. Wisely, the purchase price included a 5-year extended warranty. As well constructed as Airstreams are and despite their reputation for quality, MFI is quick to point out that when you put tens of thousands of parts together, including the…
Our next stop (with projects) was a return to Sumter, SC to visit our friends Nick and Cindy (Muszynski and Cogburn). Readers may recall that Cindy was managing Pisgah View Ranch during our nine year stint of helping there. They know what our capabilities are and excell at coming up with a great list of…
Airstream trailers have an abundance of storage spaces, both internal and external. There are cupboards and closets, drawers and dropdowns, and other nooks and crannies. These provide what would seem to be sufficient room for all the things one believes will be needed for travel. Unfortunately, our actual experience has proven to be different. There…
MFI and I were headed back to Texas because son Jon had asked for our help. For the past five months, he and Katherine had been working from home and caring for Logan, their two year old (almost). This meant neither could work full time while Logan was up and active. Help was needed in…
MFI and I planned on spending summer and fall 2020 ASing north along the Atlantic coast ending in Maine, but that was all pre-pandemic. We instead decided it would be best to err on the side of caution and limit our travels before returning early to our home base in the DFW area. The modified…
