Travel dates: July 21-24, 2017 It’s here! It’s here! It’s the very last post about our summer 2017 cross country road trip! Except I’m going to do an indexing kind of post so people can find everything easily now that they’re all written. Because there are a lot of posts. Dallas is getting short shrift […]
La Hacienda RV Resort Review and Hanging out in Austin with Friends
Travel dates: July 17-21, 2017 Austin was our last long stop on our 2017 road trip. From there on, we had a series of overnight stops and then home. So it was lovely to be able to pause here for a few days, see a great city, and hang out with friends. Our friends, Kristi […]
Fort Davis and Davis Mountains State Park (but not a Star Party)
Travel dates: July 15-16, 2017 When the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX popped up one month in our See America calendar (affiliate link), we thought it looked so cool that we rearranged an entire leg of our summer trip to make time to go see it and attend one of its Star Parties with telescope […]
Brantley Lake State Park: A Campground Review and a Very Flat Tire
Travel dates: July 13-15, 2017 To get to the campground at Brantley Lake State Park, you have to drive about six miles off the main highway, down narrow, little traveled roads surrounded on all sides by rabbits of both the living and dead varieties. I don’t know how many of those miles we drove with […]
Passing through Petrified Forest National Park and a Stay at the Grants/Cibola Sands KOA
Travel date: July 13, 2017 Generally speaking, I wouldn’t suggest a drive-through visit to any National Park if it can be avoided. But if any park lends itself to this kind of visit, it’s Petrified Forest–you can see a whole lot of the park if you spend a few hours driving through and stopping along […]
Grand Canyon Railway RV Park: Campground Review
travel dates: July 10-12, 2017 To understand how we came to stay at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park, you have to go all the way back to the beginning of our trip, to our day at the St. Louis Zoo. There I was, hanging out with penguins and whatnot at the zoo, when checked […]
Jekyll Island Campground Review: Location, Location, Location (and also bugs)
Travel dates: April 1-8, 2018 Jekyll Island Campground is the only game in town if you want to stay on the island in your RV. So it’s always nice to see a place like that do their best to make your stay pleasant, even though they could probably keep the place full even if they […]
Mt. Lassen/Shingletown KOA: Our Favorite KOA… So Far
Travel dates: June 30-July 2, 2017 We stayed at a lot of campgrounds last summer. I think if I had to declare one our favorite, the honor would have to go to Ingalls Homestead….but that’s because it was at Ingalls Homestead, not because of anything particularly special about the RV spots themselves. But if I were […]
Lava Beds National Monument: Fun with Volcanoes Continued!
Travel dates: June 29-30, 2017 Not many people make it to the remote northeastern corner of California to see Lava Beds National Monument, but the ones who do are rewarded with low crowds and a bunch of really cool caves to explore. And maybe with one of their favorite photos from their whole summer trip: […]
Collier Memorial State Park: Campground Review in which Oregon State Parks Continue to be Cheap
Travel dates: June 27-29, 2017 I love a campground that offers something extra…like some kind of interesting attraction right there on the property….like, say, a big outdoor museum about the history of logging! For example. Collier Memorial State Park was our campground choice for visiting Crater Lake National Park, about thirty minutes away. Dave’s sister […]