Category: Spring 2023 trip
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Roadside Attractions
Updated September 8, 2024. Not all our destinations are National Parks or Monuments. Some include interesting or local eateries, many are “roadside attractions” such as Meteor Crater, and some are beautiful local parks or arboretums. Here are a few interesting wayside stops that we enjoyed along the way. The Jackalope, Douglas, Wyoming A Jackalope is…
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All Fun, Games and Peanuts™ Too!
We have mentioned Harvest Hosts many times in our travel blogs. As a reminder, Harvest Hosts is a membership organization that provides access to businesses that allow one overnight stay in their parking lots, so long as you frequent the business. We typically use Harvest Hosts for heavy travel days, which are days when we need to…
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Happy New Year!
Do you still make New Year’s resolutions? We did this year and one of our resolutions was to finally write a post about our new Plateau XLTS. This post will be more interesting to those who are curious about the technical aspects of RV travel. You may want to read our Needs, Wants and Budget post before…
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79 Nights, 16 States, 8,293 Miles
Part of the fun of being retired is having the freedom to travel to new and different places together. What an absolute joy to be unmoored for 10 weeks, not being constrained by time, and free to stop and explore together. This year, we took our time traveling between campgrounds (unlike last year when we…
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Great Grub
Part of the fun of traveling includes spontaneously stopping at cafes and diners along the way. Sometimes we try recommendations by Roadtrippers, Yelp, or Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, but mostly we pull over along our route when we are hungry. La Posada in Winslow, AZ was one such example of a happy find. Of note…
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The Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
We visited the Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert almost four weeks ago. At the time of this posting we are heading east and visiting friends and family as we continue toward home. Hope the smoke from the fire in Canada was not as bad as the news makes it appear. This was…
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Lest We Forget…Oklahoma City, Fort Smith, and Little Rock
On our way back east, we visited several sites that were thought provoking and inspired us to reflect on how far we’ve come as a country, and how far we still need to go. Very moving are a field of 168 empty chairs on the grounds where the Federal Building once stood, and the large…
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A Big Bend and Big Crater
After visiting Kanab we took the opportunity to visit two “big” attractions in Arizona. Just nine miles upstream from the start of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River had to made a wide sweep around a sandstone cliff forming this massive escarpment. The location is know as Horseshoe Bend and it is located in the…
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Takin’ It Easy in Winslow, AZ
It’s rare to find a town steeped in history AND iconic Americana kitsch. Winslow, Arizona has an active Amtrak railroad station, an historic Santa Fe Railroad hotel, a former trading post building, a Standin’ on the Corner Park—and Route 66 runs right through the center of it all. We trust that many of you will…
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Kanab, Utah
Traveling across the country, we occasionally stay in a town not for any particular reason, other than to crash for a night or two. Such was the case with the town of Kanab, Utah, named after the Paiute word meaning “place of the willows”. In addition to being conveniently located near Bryce Canyon and Grand…