On the road

After a wonderful tour of the giant trees National Parks, we headed over to Paso Robles where we planned on staying for just under two weeks. During our stay there we had to fly back to Chicago for a wedding and a Rylan fix. See separate post for that excursion! Read more

Katrina and I attended the wedding of Mitch Farmer and Natalie Jaroch which was held at the Green Bay Country Club in Green Bay, WI. By attending the wedding we were also able to stop in Chicago and see our grandson, Rylan (Ari and Matt, too.). We also had a Read more

Driving through California is always interesting. We hit some traffic along the way, but not too bad. Traversing along the almond fields was nutty (sorry). The landscape started to get more interesting once we headed east towards the National Parks of Kings Canyon and Sequoia. We pulled into the Sequoia Read more

We decided that we didn’t spend enough time in Lake Tahoe. Oh well, next time. We got some beautiful views driving down the mountains from Tahoe to reach our destination of a Harvest Host called Mettler Family Vineyards located in Lodi, CA. The vineyard was great! Check out the the Read more

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

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

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

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