There were a few things that we definitely wanted to do on our epic cross-country US road trip. Seeing the Redwoods was one of them. As we drove Highway 101 out of Oregon and into Northern California, Nick and I scoured the woods at the roadside for our first glimpse of the Redwoods. We saw…
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When my kids were growing up, they only had a few computer games. One of them was “The Oregon Trail”. After the kids went to bed at night, I would spend hours playing that game. I had lots of images in my head about Oregon, but I was about to be surprised. For my fellow…
NIck had a surprise picked out for our next location…wine country!! We arrived at the Wine Country RV Park in Prosser, Washington for a five day stay.
I’d be lying if I said we weren’t nervous about crossing the mountains that stood between us and the west coast. There’s really no avoiding them. We relied heavily on Google in our decision to take route I-90 from South Dakota, through Wyoming and Montana and into Idaho. We left our campground bright and early,…
Out of the Badlands an into the Black Hills. It was only about 100 miles to our next campground, but we stopped at the Rapid City Regional Airport to pick up a rental car. There was just so much to see and a lot of distance to cover, and having a car would be a…
The Badlands. That’s where the bad guys always tried to hide in the old westerns we watched when we were young. One look at the landscape and you can see why. It would be easy to disappear in these hills. You would have to want to catch someone pretty bad to follow them into The…
St. Louis was not on our list of places to go. But we were close by, and we figured we might as well stop and see the iconic Arch and eat some St. Louis barbecue. Besides, Meet Me in St. Louis is one of my favorite all-time movies, That’s a perfectly sensible reason for taking a…
The next stop on our epic US road trip was Nashville. I’d been to Nashville about 15 years ago and couldn’t wait to see it again, and share it with Nick! Boy, has Nashville grown in those 15 years! We arrived a few days after the Country Music Awards ended. The whole city was recovering…
We’ve covered a lot of ground on our epic USA road trip. So far we’ve been to Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Iowa. Most of our time so far has been spent in urban campgrounds. While urban campgrounds aren’t the most scenic, they’ve given us easy access to some amazing cities. We stayed in the…
Wow! Has it been three weeks already? I guess it’s time for our first post from the road. It’s always hard to say goodbye to family when we set off on a new adventure. But we waved goodbye with a promise to be home in August for one of our daughters engagement party. Nick…