Category: RV Travel

Travel excites me. Especially largely-unplanned travel – I love not knowing what’s around the next corner, and being able to take detours on a whim. Tuesday was one of those days – not spectacular, but very special. The well-equipped motorhome dash had an addition this morning, with a souvenir...

To get the the border at Sweetgrass, Montana at the scheduled time (or day, at least – Wednesday the 13th), I had about 48 hours to drive the 950-odd miles – 2 easy days. I had run into a problem that needed to be sorted out at Salt Lake...

When I left off yesterday, I’d crossed into Utah at 3:10 pm, headed north on U.S. Route 89. Travel was much slower than I expected due to the many photo ops that kept presenting themselves. But Bryce Canyon, another of my Bucket List destinations, was tonight’s goal. This impressive...

To tell you about Day 3 requires more than one post – after editing, I have 537 photos in the day’s file. So I’m cutting this one off at the Utah border, which I reached just after 3:00 pm. This was the planned route – seems simple and short...

Back to the trip. I spent Friday night, my first night in the new motorhome, in the parking lot of the Walmart in Kingman, Arizona, and was up early Saturday, pumped to get to another shopping destination near Flagstaff and then to the Grand Canyon. I couldn’t find any...

Friday was the big day, starting a whole new direction in our lives. No more leaving the 3 furry members of our family home, and a whole lot of exploring the North slowly, in great detail. I took a few photos from my 6th-floor room at the Aloft Phoenix...

I knew that I wouldn’t have much time in Hinton, but for a few reasons, it was even shorter than I’d expected. I went out for breakfast with the kids and at 09:30 was on the road. In Hinton, you can smell the economy (the pulp mill – “the...

From Sicamous, there are two reasonable routes to Hinton – the one through Kamloops and north on Hwy 5 is 658 km, the other up the Icefields Parkway through the heart of the Rockies is 53 km shorter, though it takes about the same time, or longer if you’re...

This photo appears in the current edition of RV West magazine, in an ad for the Alberta Motor Association. At first glance it’s a nice photo – then I noticed the farmer-tan on the guy. Close-up. Eeeew – I can’t believe a guy would let himself be photographed looking...

Friday, Feb. 22, 21:10 (our itinerary) Here we sit in our cozy little motorhome in Mt. Maunganui, on the edge of one of New Zealand’s best surfing beaches (that’s our rig on the right). It’s very windy and we’re just listening to the surf and wind now, but for...