Tag: Ontour journal
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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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I would gladly pay you Monday for an RV today…*
Timing is everything. We had just returned from the Hershey RV Show and Pleasure-Way Rally where we looked at “B+” RVs to address our desire for more space and storage. We were enamored with the new Pleasure-Way Plateau XLTS, and spent a lot of time reviewing the new features and chatting with Pleasure-Way Factory Representative,…
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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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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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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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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…