One night campground layovers are a thing of the past. Who needs that kind of tight, challenging schedule and the stress that comes with it? We’ve evolved to staying for a minimum of three nights, driving no more than about 230 miles (300 max) between overnight stops, taking non-interstate routes whenever possible, and camping in…
Tony Zugay let us know that his oldest daughter Dawn and husband Tony Mendoza could probably use our help. So when we coordinated our visit to Lake City, we also contacted Dawn and planned to spend the following week in St. Paul to help them out as well. Unfortunately, our plan didn’t quite unfold as…
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…
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,…
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…
Our third day-trip out of Shediak, New Brunswick was planned for visiting Halifax, Nova Scotia but turned into a different two-day excursion. The less than fantastic experience in Charlottetown had us change our minds about visiting one more big city on the chance of being disappointed again. A quick google search for top sites to…
