Few things scream coastal California better than a classic woody station wagon. We had lots of friends to visit in the Los Angeles area before heading east to winter in Carrollton, TX; so we again stayed for a week at the Walnut RV Park in Northridge, CA. From experience, I chose a better-located spot within…
The drive to Napa, CA (population 77,492), traversed the fertile Sacramento Valley. The flat farmland and grass-covered rolling hills couldn’t compete with the majestic scenery we’d seen all summer; however, it did have a certain attraction and clearly made a significant contribution to our country’s food production. Our campground was east of downtown among the…
Once we got settled in Washington, we reserved a flight to Fort Lauderdale and spent two weeks with the Gomez family. Our vacation was jammed packed. Sammy had her ballet debut in a local theater production. She also celebrated her 6th birthday, for which Sarah threw a wonderful party in their neighborhood Park. And finally,…
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…
Before we left Durango, Logan invited us during a Facetime call to his 5th birthday party, so naturally we had to make that happen. Stopping in Carrollton would allow us to celebrate with Logan and family, stop by our storage unit and remove the bulk of our heavy tools (lighten Sid’s load for Alaska next…
During our 2021 journey, we stopped in Rochester, NY for the purposes of following up on the North family history (MFI’s mother’s side) and meeting up with her cousins, whom she hadn’t seen (except for one) since she was 9 years old. As a reminder of our stop in NY, here we were then at…
Sarah and family planned a week in Phoenix primarily so she could attend a baby shower for one of her long-time ASU (Go Sun Devils) dance-team mates, while Michael got a chance to play golf with some friends. We returned to Phoenix and booked ourselves for a month at Desertscape RV Park only four miles…
Our second stop in California was in “The Valley” north of Los Angeles. We needed a location, which was central to all the folks we planned to see and found the perfect spot at Walnut RV Park in Northridge. Unfortunately, as we crossed the mountains and descended into the valley, the temperature soared from 87…
I had trouble finding a decent and reasonably-priced RV park in the area of Oceanside, so we ended up staying at Lake O’Neill RV Park on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. My father did his WWII basic training here before fighting in the Pacific. This huge base covers 125,000 acres and extends from California’s largest…
