That’s the news from Lake Wobegon,where all the women are strong,all the men are good looking,and all the children are above average. Garrison KeillorA Prairie Home Companion The memories sometimes find their way out…I am five years old lying on a sofa in the front room of my grandparents’ farm house drifting off to sleep …
This was a good time to visit Death Valley National Park. Instead of having to deal with the 100 degree plus days and warm nights during the summer, we were moving comfortably around the park in sunshine and temps in the 70’s and 80’s. This was not by accident as we had researched when the …
We spent nearly a month here this past week! That’s an old joke, I know, but it is rather fitting in this circumstance. Actually Death Valley National Park isn’t such a bad place to spend a week, but I’ll confess Fred was a lot more into it than I was. The name gives it a bad …
For the last couple of days we’ve been hanging out in Palm Springs, courtesy of our long-time good friend from Chicago, Kathy, and her friends and now our new friends, Laury & Nancy. We left Charley behind in his RV Resort down the road for a few days and moved into Kathy, Laury & Nancy’s fancy …
Our travels have taken us from the Pacific Ocean over to the Coachella Valley, and we are now less than 100 miles from the Mexican border in southern California. [Incidentally we’re not quite sure where Mr. Trump is going to have the Mexicans build his big wall; it’d kinda ruin the stunning views from the mountaintops around here, …
The second of the four remaining parks we are visiting in Southern California this winter, Channel Islands National Park is another one that started out as a national monument before being designated a national park in 1980. The Channel Islands is a set of eight largely undeveloped and unpopulated islands found off the coast of Santa …
We have been on the move visiting three more national parks, and with so much travel and activity, I haven’t had time to write about what we’re seeing. Well no more; here is the first of the four parks we are visiting in Winter 2016 in southern California. [We visited the five parks in central and northern California …
Salinas, California, has been on our “Must Visit” list for nearly as long as we have been dreaming about and planning for our Out There road trip. Many of you know why, but I’ll let the rest of you know… it’s because we had to visit the inspiration for the name we gave to our motor home. …
Here are a few images from our recent stay in Redwood National Park. As you will see, we hiked among some really tall trees on the appropriately named Tall Tree Trail, and through lush vegetation in Fern Canyon. Note Laura sitting on the bench in the first photo. These big boys would make even Shaq look petite.
