Those Young Guys – Finding Our Way
On our way from Newport to Cape Blanco we passed through Bandon, a cute little coastal town which is the center of cranberry production for the area. Most of the cranberries had been harvested already but we managed to see one field where they were working away. The Bullards Beach
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Welcome to Ft Stevens State Park – where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Ft Stevens campground is quite large with more than 8 loops and almost 500 sites. Yes, it is large but each loop feels quaint and small (albeit it can feel crowded on weekends and during
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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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Farragut State Park is about 40 minutes north of Coeur d’Alene and is one of our favorite state parks. Since we used to live in this area we are very familiar with the park and have not only stayed here many times before but have hiked every trail multiple times.
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As we headed west on I-90 we stopped in Three Forks, Montana at Wheat Montana. Who can resist Wheat Montana when driving by? Well, obviously no one can. We went in, or should I say we tried to go in, but the line up to order was at least 40
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Henry’s Lake is a small alpine lake about 4 miles by 2 miles in the upper northeast corner of Idaho. It is surrounded by the Continental Divide on 3 sides and about a 15 minute drive to West Yellowstone in Montana. Due to the unique location of the lake the
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Our journey to Catalina State Park took us through downtown Phoenix and on past the Angels spring training stadium in Tempe as we headed south to Catalina State Park in Tucson. The state park is located in Oro Valley which is in the northern part of Tucson at the
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We decided to take off and head to the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix for some hiking. It was early November and the weather in the Phoenix area had started to cool down so we thought it might be a great time to be out there before the holidays set
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We took the short drive from Cheyenne Mountain State Park to Trinidad Lake State Park passing through Pueblo with no traffic, great weather, and a lovely drive. And on to Trinidad which sits in the southern part of Colorado right off I-25 in the Purgatoire River Valley at
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It’s summertime in Colorado and the Rockies are battling several forest fires. As we make our way through Denver we can barely see downtown and there are Ozone alerts and warnings to exercise indoors. Yes, we had ashes on our RV and car when we departed Estes Park a few
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