South Lake Tahoe

After leaving Reno we topped off with diesel before heading into California. Good idea: Welcome to Cali! We also finished all of our vegetables because we knew that at the border crossing we would be asked if we had them. (See next post for details). The drive down was beautiful: Read more

Reno

We left the warm waters of the hot spring to drive through high heat and smoke for the entirety of the ride. Not very good scenery along the way, but I bet if it was clear it would have been spectacular. Our destination for the evening was Reno, NV. We Read more

Crane Hot Springs

We left the Hausauer’s in Walla Walla and headed south with our destination of Seneca, OR to stay at the Seneca Timbers Inn & RV. We drove through remnants of a recent wildfire and smelled smoke most of the way. There were a lot of firefighters in the area and Read more

Walla Walla, WA

We headed north from Bend with our destination Walla Walla, WA to stay at the Blue Valley RV Park. We wanted to stop in this area because of the big bold red wines and it was our intentions to try a lot of wineries (apparently Walla Walla is also known Read more

Bend

We left the Oregon Coast and headed inland with our destination being Sun Outdoors Bend. The trip over was a bit gnarly through the mountains: Once we crossed the gap we saw the wildfire smoke. Not too bad, but still. The Sun Outdoors Bend used to be called Crown Point Read more

Silver Creek, WA

After the night in the Wally World parking lot we headed down to Silver Creek, WA and stayed at the Harmony Lakeside RV Park. We picked this location because it was situated about halfway between Mount St. Helens and Mount Reiner and we thought that we could do some hiking Read more

Wild Zoo

Now that we are back in the lower 48 states, I thought that it would be interesting to summarize the types and amounts of wild animals that we saw going through Canada, into Alaska and then back into Canada again. I’ll also add some pictures to add some color (literally). Read more

Wally World

We got down to the Black Ball Ferry a little over two hours early. US Border Control needed us there 1.5 hours ahead of time. No problem with gaining access to the ferry as our passports were valid. It was very scary loading onto the ferry through the side door: Read more