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From Burbank we headed northwest on I-82 through the Yakima Valley. Looking through the windshield at amazing landscapes and snow capped mountains in the distance. We detoured off the highway to see the 1922 gas station built to draw attention to the Teapot Dome...
Park History Video It's a tragic tale of a cultural misunderstandings. Today we visited The Whitman Mission National Historic Park in the fertile Walla Walla Valley of southern Washington State, the site of the 1847 Whitman massacre. As newlyweds Narcissa...
From Coeur d'Alene we pushed our way across southeastern Washington today. We expected to have an opportunity to stop at a visitors center as we crossed into the state but saw no such possibility. We did stop in Sprague for fuel and a geocaching break. That search...
This national forest campground in a valley in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest is a peaceful place. The slopes on either side are so sleep that they are near vertical. Only nineteen campsites and most of them occupied by tent campers. While we've had our solar...
This natural Lake Couer d'Alene in northern Idaho is absolutely gorgeous. We camped south of here last night and came into town this morning to explore and to run a few errands. Didn't know we had picked one of the busiest weekends of the summer. Iron Man Coeur...
See Depot Video Between Missoula and the Idaho border we were barreling along I-90 when we saw a sign that caused us to brake, exit, and follow signs to a Historic Ranger Station Visitors Center. So glad we made the stop. Ninemile Remount Depot is still an...
Our tentative destination for today was Missoula. Not for any particular reason but just because it seemed like a reasonable distance but before we got there we got tired of travel. We stopped at Bearmouth RV Park in Drummond on a whim. It's a family owned place with...
It was operations like the Anaconda Copper Mining Company that supplanted the hard rock copper mines that we visited in Houghton and Calumet on the Keweenaw Peninsula last September. Like in the Keweenaw area, immigrants worked the mines and created a vibrant...
Due to the long running radio then television series Gunsmokewe are all familiar, or at least those of a certain age, with variations of the command uttered to villians to "Get out of Dodge." In Virginia City a committee of vigilantes organized to maintain law and...
Today we visited Virginia City, once the biggest, busiest city in Montana. Founded as a result of the discovery of gold in 1863, it quickly became the commercial, entertainment, and transportation center in the Alder Gulch mining district. By 1865 Virginia City was...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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This time we learned more about the importance of planning our adventure especially when visiting a big city like Belfast.
It snowed in Iceland day before yesterday! And the secnery is phenomenal Mountains and water everywhere The unique Icelandic ponies And famed Icelandic sheep The spectacular Goðafoss, phenomenal waterfall with a link to Iceland's conversion to Christianity And even a...
Our brief visit to Lerwick, the capital of the Shetlands in Scotland gave us a taste of the culture and lifestyle of the Shetlanders and a desire to experience more.