travel dates: June, 2022 After a week in Durango, it was time to say goodbye to Dave’s family and head for another new-to-us state: Utah. Dave has long dreamed of an RV trip to all the National Parks in Utah, whereas I have long explained that I’ll be happy to go to all the National […]
Santa Fe Skies Campground Review: Candidate for Best Campground Ever
It didn’t take us long to figure out how they settled on the name Santa Fe Skies for this campground. Owing to (again!) some itinerary shuffling, we spent more than a week at Santa Fe Skies, which gave us plenty of time to enjoy its spacious, scenic campsites, quirky public art, large clubhouse with patio, […]
Cadillac Ranch: A Stormy Night in Amarillo
When you find yourself with one night in Amarillo, Texas, at a campground right next door to Cadillac Ranch, with a nasty looking storm headed your way, there’s really only one thing to do: make a very quick trip to Cadillac Ranch and take a million pictures with the dramatic lighting, then spend a couple […]
A Review of the FMCA Campground near Cincinnati, OH
It’s finally here! The very last post about our summer 2021 trip! Don’t worry; I’m still behind, as I have a couple of winter/spring trips to blog about, too, before I turn my attention fully to summer of 2022. But I can see the possibility of actually being all caught up glimmering in the far distance ahead […]
Stephens Park near Hot Springs National Park: A Campground Review
The area around Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas is blessed with many well-reviewed campgrounds, from fancy resorts to state parks…so I don’t quite remember how we ended up at perhaps the tiniest of them all: little Stephens Park with all of nine campsites, right on the shore of Lake Hamilton. It’s a gem, though, […]
Tom Sawyer’s RV Park in West Memphis: A Campground Review
We had been itching to stay at Tom Sawyer’s RV Park in West Memphis, Arkansas (just across the river from Memphis, TN) for a long time. We had, in fact, booked two stays there in the past, both of which had to be canceled for assorted reasons. You have to call to book, and apparently […]
Wayne County Fairgrounds RV Park near Detroit, MI: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 You can listen to me talking about Wayne County Fairgrounds and our trip to Detroit on the RV Atlas Podcast There’s something about the challenge of finding good RV camping near big cities that appeals to me. Sometimes it’s pretty straightforward, and there’s a solid campground very close to the city (the Philadelphia South KOA). […]
Oak Mountain State Park, et. al: A Campground Review and Van Woes
travel dates: June, 2022 Ah, August! That time when, for us Georgians, it is still unbearably hot and muggy outside and yet summer is officially over and everyone must return to real life. We’re back from our mostly wonderful eight week long summer trip, which we dubbed Mountains, Mountains, and More Mountains for reasons that […]
Four Mile Creek State Park near Niagara Falls: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 I talked about this campground awhile back on the RV Atlas podcast: you can listen to that episode here We stayed at some really nice resort type campgrounds on this trip and very much enjoyed them. There are some resort type campgrounds in the Niagara Falls area that have wonderful reviews and would […]
Sned-Acres Family Campground: Campground Review
Travel dates: July, 2021 We had a bit of a motley itinerary in summer of 2021, one that tied together New England with parts of the midwest. But one nice thing about this somewhat inefficient route is that it let us spend some time along the way checking out parts of New York we’d never […]