Those Young Guys – Finding Our Way
It’s that time of year for our annual pilgrimage to Quartzsite for the RV Big Tent RV Show and to meet up with friends. Since we are packing up the RV anyway we always like to travel to a few other places. Most years we combine a trip to Borrego
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We headed north through Nevada on Highway 93. We love that drive as it is quiet, peaceful, not much traffic, and there are a number of large, flat places to pull over for a lunch break. We drove through Jackpot, Nevada by Cactus Pete’s just before crossing into Idaho. Our
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We departed Borrego Springs heading to Quartzsite, Arizona. We took Borrego Springs Rd (10% grade) to Highway 78 east through Ocotillo Wells to Brawley with great views of fighter jets flying in formation in the sky along with all the agricultural fields and workers. It was a foggy morning. We
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Anza Borrego State Park Visitor Center The Anza Borrego State Park Visitor Center is about a one mile walk from the Palm Canyon campground. There is a paved trail the whole distance with interpretive signs along the way detailing the local animal life, local desert plans, and information about our
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Anza Borrego State Park is the largest state park in California and lies to the west of the Salton Sea. We headed west on S22 from Salton City, along a very rough road (for a short distance) and on through the vast desert of the state park and on to
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Our drive today took us from Stanley, Idaho north along Highway75 to just south of Salmon, Idaho. The highway follows the Salmon River through the Sawtooth Wilderness Area and the Salmon-Challis National Forest and is an absolutely beautiful drive. The landscape continues to change along the way and soon we
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As we headed east on I-10 through Texas we passed Fort Stockton and headed on towards Tunis Springs where we made a lunch stop. We continued on towards Junction with plans to boondock at the city park located along the river. Most state parks in the area were closed for
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As we made our way from Vantage to Glenoma we drove through Yakima and on to Highway 12 where the Schneider Springs wildfire was burning. The sky in Yakima was a bit overcast and smokey but not as bad as we have seen before with wildfires. As we entered Naches
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Our next destination was Mount Rainier National Park with a one night stopover at a national forest campground along the Naches River. A few weeks earlier we had received an email from Recreation.gov notifying us that our reservation was cancelled with a full refund due to the campground being closed.
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We have been to Yellowstone National Park a number of times before but since we were staying at Henry’s Lake State Park which isn’t very far from the National Park we thought we would drive over there and if it was not a long wait to get into the park
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