Osoyoos to Surrey via Rosedale, British Columbia – 7 October 2024
Rosedale, British Columbia7 October 2024 The road from Osoyoos to Rosedale was quite long, and through a number of…
Rosedale, British Columbia7 October 2024 The road from Osoyoos to Rosedale was quite long, and through a number of…
We love the desert, so a stay in Canada’s only desert was a real treat. Osoyoos, BC has vineyards,…
Cranbrook, BC3 October 2024 The campsite in Cranbrook was called the St Eugene campground after its neighbour the beautiful…
Leaving Calgary we were treated to some wonderful views along the road. Deep golden wheat fields with bales of…
We have had a busy couple of weeks in Calgary, visiting our dog wash customers, taking videos of installations…
We drove the Icefields parkway to the Banff National Park through Jasper. We had planned earlier this year to…
It was about a 2 hour drive from Grand Cache to Hinton when approx. 45 minutes before arriving in…
A sudden shift in the weather and reported snow in Banff. Luckily the longer term forecast did not include…
After being spoiled with beautiful scenery in Yukon and the Muncho Provincial Park, we were rather disappointed with the…
A rather smoky and overcast drive from Fort Nelson to Pink Mountain and also road works along the way….
The road through the rest of the Muncho Lake Provincial park was stunning with bright Fall colours and lots…
The stretch of Alaska Highway to Muncho Lake Provincial Park from Watson Lake was stunning. So many beautiful mountains…
A short overnight stay in Watson Lake in the same RV site as we stayed on the way back…
The following day we drove to Teslin. This was a different campsite to the one we had stayed in…
We (especially Derek) were looking forward to some relaxation time at the Eclipse Spa again. We stayed in the…
Derek was quite psyched up for the next leg of the journey which was the worst part of the…
The road from Tok to Beaver Creek was fairly long but not as bad as we had remembered. The…
The drive from Delta Junction to Tok was very scenic with fields of deep reds and yellows against the…
From Fairbanks we made our way to Delta Junction and the Delta State Recreation Center. This State owned park,…
Fairbanks is known as the “Golden Heart City” because of both its gold rush history and the warm welcome…
One of the anticipated highlights of our trip was a visit to the Denali National Park and Preserve. This…
Weather has been getting cooler here and Talkeetna, where we were stayed for a few days, was ideal breeding…
Kenai to Anchorage Back to Anchorage for a couple days to take the RV into an RV shop to…
We arrived at the Port of Kenai, on the Kenai peninsula, in pouring rain. There were very few RVs…
We spent three days staying on a beautiful spit in Homer, Alaska. The Spit is a 7.2 km long…
We enjoyed our time in Seward – gateway to the beautiful Kenai Fjords National Park. Seward was named for…
The following day we left for Anchorage along a very windy but very scenic road – more towering mountains…
As we neared the Matanuska Glacier State Recreation Center where we hoped to spend the night, we were presented…
The road from Copper Center to Valdez was incredible, especially the Thompson pass which is a 2,600 foot high…
After 3 days in Tolsona we left for Squirrel Creek Recreation Center. This was a small campground situated between…
Chistochina, Alaska Date: 14 July 2024 On the way to Glennallen, we stopped overnight at the Red Eagle Lodge…
If we thought the road from Haines Junction to Beaver Creek was bad – the road from Beaver Creek…
The stretch of road from Haines Junction to Beaver Creek was along the Alaska highway was very pretty and…
Coming into Haines Junction you are presented with this incredible view of the Kluane Range mountains. Our campsite was…
We spent a relaxing Saturday at the Eclipse Nordic hot springs which was a short walk from our campsite,…
Our first port of call when we reached Whitehorse was a Tire shop so we could replace the broken…
On the way to Teslin we had our first accident. As we crossed the Ranchero bridge, a large truck…
We were hoping that the Car Satellite system would work on our drive to Watson Lake but it didn’t,…
There was zero coverage on the road to Dease Lake which was a big problem for me as I…
When researching campgrounds along the Stewart-Cassier highway we found a lot of reports of campers arriving at campgrounds only…
Mezadian Lake Provincial Park had some really nice campsites and we were fortunate to get one right on the…
Kitwanga was a very small town and the starting point of the Stewart Cassiar Highway. The campsite was fine…
It’s crazy how we have spent 30 years in British Columbia and yet there are so many places we…
Our next stop was 50 kms south of Burns Lake at Takysie Lake. To get there we had to…
From Cariboo we drove to Vanderhoof, a small town with a population of approx. 5000. The Riverside Park Campground…
We spent Derek’s 63rd birthday in Quesnel, British Columbia at Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park. Quesnel is situated between…
We continued our drive through the beautiful British Columbia to Lac La Hache, with exceptional scenery through valleys of…
Vancouver, British Columbia 5 June – 6 June, 2024 Back to Vancouver but this time to Peace Arch RV…
Vancouver, BC 30 May – 31 May 2024 Time to return to the warehouse again to install the new…
The next day we caught the Coho ferry back to Victoria. The weather was a little chilly but the…
Castle Rock, Washington Dates: 27-28 April 2024 By this time we were very weary of the 1 day/2 day…
A fun night when we stayed overnight at the Willamette Valley Smokehouse, one of the Harvest Hosts. Parking was…
Yreka, California 23 April 2024 Stayed overnight in Yreka in the Waiiaka RV Park which we have stayed in…
We were pleasantly surprised with Sycamore Grove Campground which we thought was a private campground. The park is actually…
In Nicolaus we stayed in Lake Minden at one of the Thousand Trail parks. A nice campground situated around…
Castaic, California 16 April 2024 Arrived late at the Castaic RV Park but without incident. This was a decent…
We said our goodbyes to Arizona and headed for Palm Desert in California. The last time we were at…
Wagon West RV park where we stayed was close to Quartzsite, Arizona, which is known for its beautiful gems…
We stayed in the Picacho State Park for a couple of days which is based at the bottom of…
We were sad to move on from RoperLake but all was forgotten when we entered the gates to Thousand…
Roper Lake State Park was a very pleasant surprise. It was situated just below the snow capped Pinaleño Mountains…
Our next stop was at Saddlehawk Ranch, a Harvest host. This not for profit ranch had a number of…
As we drove over the hill and saw the city of Las Cruces laid out in front of us,…
The drive to Alamogordo went well, with no more issues with the brakes. Our RV Park was situated alongside…
Before leaving for Carrizozo, we utilized some of the back roads of Albuquerque to burn in the new brakes….
After a short stay in Tucumcari, New Mexico, we moved on to Albuquerque (Spanish translation “White Oak”. ) While…
We stayed overnight at Blaze-In Saddle RV park in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Next door to where we were parked…
As we continued westward, the geography became more and more desert. Our RV campground in Amarillo was the Big…
We continued westward on the 18 March and stayed overnight at the Lone Mound Ranch, a 460 acre working…
On Tuesday we arrived in Oklahoma City which is the capital of Oklahoma. Oklahoma City has the third largest…
We moved on to the Lake Eufaula State Park in Oklahoma for a couple of nights. We were parked…
We spent a couple of days in Little Rock – the capital of Arkansas, in an RV park situated…
We had tried to book the Graceland RV campground in Memphis several times, beginning months before we were due…
We spent two days in Tupelo, Mississippi in the Tombigbee State Park along the shores of located on the…
Our campsite in the Oak Mountain State Park in Alabama was in the Equestrian section with day stables for…
We left Florida on Sunday and crossed Georgia into Alabama. In Ashford, we stopped at a rest stop and…
What better place to spend our last few days in Florida, then in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. It…
Our next stop was in Gainsville, Florida where we stayed at a smaller campsite (relative to some of the…
After Miami, we made our way 225km north east to Sebastian, Florida. The RV park we stayed in was…
We really enjoyed our time in Miami. The Miami-Dade area where we stayed ranks first in the US in…
We broke up the journey from Auburnville to Miami by staying overnight at Turn 2 Brewery in Sebring. We…
One of our not to miss spots this trip was the Camp Margaritaville RV resort in Auburndale, Florida where…
We stayed in Tampa Bay, Florida for 4 nights and enjoyed some completely different sights in this beautiful city…
Crystal River is on the West coast of Florida, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. It is home to…
We arrived at our our next campground Southern Palms which is part of the Thousand Trails group, and squished…
We were looking forward to our stay in Florida. Not only did it mean seeing our daughter and her…
We were excited to stay in Savannah, Georgia for the next 15 days allowing plenty of time to explore…
We broke up the distance between Wilmington, North Carolina and Savannah, Georgia by staying overnight at Harvest Host Crafty…
The 2 hour trip to Wilmington was uneventful, but when we arrived we got the good news that the…
As we left Weldon, we saw an amazing cloud formation in the sky. It was an extremely rare cloud…
Our next stop was an overnighter outside the Weldon Mills Distillery in Weldon, North Carolina. We parked near their…
Doswell, Virginia Date: 13 – 16 November 2023 A quick trip down to Doswell, Virginia and a concentration on…
We were excited to be back in Washington, DC until we realized we had once again chosen a weekend…
On our way to Bedford, the RV tripwizard software took us a bit of the beaten track. Not sure…
Perrysburg, Ohio Date: 7 November 2023 We arrived at the KOA in Perrysburg around 7 pm and after unpacking…
With our RV almost ready for collection we made our way, once again back to Elkhart, Indiana where we…
Off to the Staybridge Suites in Utica about a 40 drive from downtown Detroit. We got up early as…
5th time over the border this year but not complaining, good to be in Canada again. After a fiasco…
A short stop overnight in Battle Creek, Michigan at the Country Inn and Suites. They wanted to put us…
On our way to our hotel in Chicago we drove through the Chicago O’Hare airport and were lucky enough…