Finding Our Way
Off to southern Arizona to Kartchner Caverns State Park. It is time for us to visit friends and enjoy some nice hiking. Kartchner Caverns State Park is about 10 miles south of the Benson area and I-10. It offers 62 campsites, camping cabins, world famous caves with tours available, and
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In our last post we discussed some of the activities at Farragut State Park. In this post we discuss some activities around the area outside of the park. Biking North Idaho has some great bike trails but one of our favorites is the “Over 70 mile Rail-to-Trails” bike path called
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Being a campground host is not ALL hard work. There are lots of benefits too especially when you are in a great area with lots to see and do. Even though we lived here for years we never tire of all the activities. It certainly kept us busy for a
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Life as a campground host! Being a campground host is a rite of passage in the RVer world. Sure there are lots of rites of passages such as driving to Alaska, attending rallies, boondocking, free camping, harvest hosting, work kamping, Habitat for Humanity RV Care-A-Vanners, camping off the grid, etc.
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Pie Town, New Mexico is west of Datil along highway 60 about 20 miles and about 3 miles west of the Continental Divide. The town has a population of under 200 and got its name from a bakery that specialized in dried apple pies in the 1920s. Today it still
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Abilene State Park is about 15 miles southwest of Abilene and sits on the shore of Lake Abilene. The area used to be a campground for the Comanche and Tonkawa while they hunted buffalo as the herds came through nearby Buffalo Gap. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) developed most of
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Purtis Creek is a 355-acre fishing lake southwest of Dallas where you can also swim, paddle, boat, hike, bike, camp, and just enjoy the area. There are 59 campsites with water and electricity along with some tent sites and walk in primitive sites. There is a dump station on site.
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Caddo Lake in Karnack, Texas sits on the Texas and Louisiana border and is known for its Cypress trees, bogs, bayous, and sloughs. It is Texas’ only natural lake and is home to the largest bald cypress tree forest in the world. It is quite mysterious with its Cypress knees,
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We departed Stockton, Alabama on I-65 and heading west and crossed over the Tensaw River where our last night’s campground was located. We then continued on to Mississippi to the city of Hattiesburg (population around 50,000) which is home to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). Camp Shelby is located
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We departed from the Tallahassee area and drove west through the Florida panhandle and passed into Central Time zone along the Apalachicola River. On we went heading west and left Florida (sob, sob….) and entered into Alabama. We spent over a month in Florida and we had a terrific time.
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