We drove down from the Archview campground to Canyonlands National Park and entered through the Island in the Sky Visitor Center on the north side of the park. We drove until the road ended at Grand View Point Overlook and hiked out to the tip following the rim: And my Read more…
Apparently Utah has five National Parks that are known as the Big 5. Arches Canyonlands Bryce Canyon Zion Capitol Reef We decided to stay in Moab so that we could visit two of them: Arches and Canyonlands. The other three we plan on visiting over the next few weeks. I Read more…
Our final stop in Colorado was at the Grande River Winery which is part of the Harvest Host association. I never knew that Colorado had a wine country, but they do. There were a lot of wineries in the area. Grande River Winery is really good, not the sweet wine Read more…
We heading west out of Breckenridge on I-70 as we worked our way over to Utah. I-70 is a bit bumpy, resulting in this: All of Katrina’s hanging clothes “hopped” off the rack! Now, that’s bumpy! To break up the drive to Utah, we stopped at the Glenwood Springs West Read more…
I was very excited to roll into Breckenridge, Colorado. The last time I was there was when I went skiing with the Illini Ski Club back in the early 80’s. I remembered how beautiful the town was, lined with gas lamps along Main Street. Oh, and I loved the skiing! Read more…
Colorful Colorado! It’s such a great vista leaving the Midwest plains and seeing the mountains. As they grew bigger it builds anticipation to explore the beauty of the mountains. Since we were staying in Estes Park we had to drive up into the mountains following a river: Twisting and turning Read more…
After spending the majority of early 2020 looking at all the Motorcoach Resorts up and down the west coast of Florida we decided to purchase a lot at Myakka River Motorcoach Resort (MRMR). There were a lot of reasons why we zoned in on MRMR – the biggest were location Read more…
I was giddy about getting on the road again and starting our third year after our annual maintenance stop at the Mothership. So over the past nine days the following has happened to us: Got a chip in the windshield. No problem, I repaired it so that it won’t crack. Read more…
We couldn’t find the “Welcome to Nebraska” sign along our path to take a picture of. Driving across Nebraska we didn’t see any amber waves of grain this time of the year, but we did see emerald waves of grass/hay/corn. So there’s that! Pals Brewery in North Platte, Nebraska is Read more…
The people of Iowa love us! They are so welcoming! After traveling down a four mile dusty gravel road we finally arrived at the Doe’s and Diva’s Dairy near Honey Creek, IA. We were interested in staying with them because their dairy had sheep and goat cheese. Since we got Read more…