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One of the beloved features of Gigi II, our T@B-Clamshell, was the outdoor kitchen. It was a delight to just open up, have everything within easy reach and make a meal in the outdoors under the shelter of the hatch cover. It invited us outside and kept the heat and...
Crowded campgrounds! Especially in resort areas. We headed today for The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area with our eye on the Army Corps of Engineers Canal Campground near Grand Rivers KY. Of the 110 campsites here all 108 reservable sites are taken for...
If you visit Grand River's KY, it seems a visit tp Patti's 1880 Settlement is a must. We were warned we should make reservations but didn't. Turns out our wait wasn't too long. An online reservation though would have been quite easy to make. We also were warned about...
'Twas a totally gorgeous day on Rough River Lake. We enjoyed sitting in our chairs watching the light play on the water, boaters heading out for a day of fishing or other fun, and kayakers paddling by. Later in the afternoon we headed in the direction of Owensboro to...
After breakfasting on some of the amazing eggs we got at Saturday's farmers market, relaxing in camp a bit, hobnobbing with a fellow tiny trailer traveler, and breaking camp, we headed out in a southerly direction. We crossed the river at Brandenburg KY which...
We're at Fishing Creek Campground on Lake Cumberland near Somerset, Kentucky. It's one of the Army Corps of Engineers Campgrounds and Site 11 has water on three sides! We're set up and registered. Now it's time to pop into town to run a few errands and perhaps find a...
See Park Video The Cumberland Gap Tunnel on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee gave us the opportunity to travel under the storied Cumberland Gap today as part of a journey involving three states in about five minutes! We spent time at the Cumberland Gap Visitors...
We've scored a national park campsite with shade and electricity near a well-appointed shower house at the Senior Pass rate! It's the Wilderness Road Campground near Ewing, Virginia. It's at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park where the states of Kentucky,...
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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London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.