Tag: Class B
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Signs along the way…
During our travels we’ve come across quite a few street and traffic signs that we don’t see at home in southeastern Pennsylvania. We’ve had fun taking these photos and assembling them here for you to see. We’ll keep adding to this post as we encounter new, interesting and unusual signs. Animals Trains and trolleys Amusing…
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Needs, Wants and Budget.
If you read our post A Few More Improvements, you will know that being able to carry what we need is a major focus for us. We are traveling in an 80 square foot van with no outdoor storage. Short trips are easy to pack for. But on longer trips, we experience a lot of…
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A few more improvements
Traveling comfortably for long periods in a Class B RV is a struggle between bringing along the items you want versus what you can actually carry, without filling the rig with so much stuff that there is limited room to move around inside the RV. The image above is from our trip to North Carolina…
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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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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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Zion Canyon
First established in 1909 as Mukuntuweap National Monument, the Monument was renamed Zion in 1909 by the Acting Director of the newly established National Park Service due to concerns that the original Native American name would deter visitors who might have difficulty pronouncing its name. Zion National Monument became a National Park on November 19,…
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Oh, no…
I thought I would write a little about how we visually document the things we see as we travel. I will get to what happened in the feature image above shortly. In photography “the best camera you have is the one you have with you.” And for most of us, that is our iPhones or…
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Arches and Canyons
We arrived in Utah on the thirty-second day of our travels; a first visit to the state for us both. We had a five-night stay planned in Moab, because we wanted to visit both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. A visit to Arches requires some advanced planning as from April 1 to October 31, the…
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Mesa Verde National Park
Established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Mesa Verde National Park encompasses over 52,000 acres near the Four Corners region. Designated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site, it preserves more than 600 cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people. The first people settled in Mesa Verde in AD 550. Their homes were “pit houses“, sunken rooms with…