We’ve Been Everywhere Man! – from Gunter, TX

Borrowing from Johnny Cash’s I’ve Been Everywhere: We’ve traveled every road in this here land. We've been everywhere, man. We've been everywhere, man. Crossed the deserts bare, man. We've breathed the mountain air, man. Travel, we've had our share, man. We've been everywhere. We've been to California, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Maine. We’ve ridden 95 and …

Hot Springs Redux – Hot Springs, AR

We’d felt sort of cheated when we were in Hot Springs in the spring. It was cold and wet, and walking around when we were last there seemed pointless and miserable. This time, we were able to stroll outside in very pleasant weather, and we toured the National Park Bathhouse Row – and in particular, …

Labor Day Weekend – Memphis, TN

Our path to home from Illinois would lead us through Memphis and Hot Springs; two of the areas we stopped at in the spring on our way up to Bar Harbor. While Tom Sawyer’s Mississippi RV Park doesn’t offer a whole lot of amenities, it does offer a pretty view of the barge traffic as …

Elkhart, Indiana to Marion, Illinois – Marion, IL

We left Streetsboro, Ohio with the intention of staying in Sturgis, Michigan, just on the other side of the state line to the north of I-90. A special congratulations go to Green Valley Campground for being the first place in which I literally drove in, paid my fee, and promptly left after circling the area. …

Cleveland Rocks! – Streetsboro, OH

Our chief reason for going to Cleveland was to see an old friend of ours, whom we hadn’t seen since 1979. Don and I were stationed at Omaha, Nebraska at Offutt AFB for a couple of years and it is he with whom I endured an F4 tornado bearing down on our butts. It was …

Lake Erie – Erie, PA

I visited Lake Erie in 1969 at a time when it was termed “the dead lake.” Fertilizer run-off as well as human waste dumped into it caused algae blooms and starved the fish from oxygen. While the part I swam didn’t exhibit anything out of the norm and I found it quite nice, the Cuyahoga …

Niagara Falls – from Akron, NY

Our stay in Akron, near Buffalo, was simply chosen to provide fairly convenient access to Niagara Falls in what we thought was a nice place. While Sleepy Hollow Camp appeared fairly nice on the internet, it is more campground and seasonal camper than RV park. The internet was non-functional unless you had Windows 95, and …

The RV Takes a Boat Ride – Watertown, NY

After leaving Vermont, we headed for Watertown in upstate New York. While we used U.S. Route 3 to pass through the picturesque Adirondacks and by Lake Placid, the real treat was getting to pass over Lake Champlain on a ferry. Getting to the ferry was a bit of a PITA simply because our GPS said …

Boldt Castle – Alexandria Bay, NY

While in Watertown we took time to visit Boldt Castle upon the recommendation of an acquaintance we met in Augusta, Maine. We learn about all sorts of stuff to see from people we run into along the way. Construction of Boldt Castle began in 1900, but after four years the command to halt construction was …

Canada’s Capital City – Ottawa, ON

While in upstate New York, we took the opportunity to visit Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario. Unfortunately, it took us about 20 minutes to get through customs processing, which bordered on inclusion of a strip search. I don't know what threw things off course, but I have a strong hunch. When questioned what the purpose of …

The Green Mountain State – Barre, VT

We quickly figured out why Vermont is called “The Green Mountain State:” It rained nearly every day we were there. And it rained a lot. Fortunately, we had a couple breaks in the weather and were able to venture outside long enough to see the area. We chose to stay in Barre (“berry”), which has …

Making Our Way Back Home – Augusta, ME

As we left Bar Harbor, we started to weave our way back westward. A quick overnight was required in southern Maine before we would travel another 250 miles to Vermont. I wasn’t quite sure what we’d find at Augusta West campground as we wove down the very rutted entry road, but I was pleasantly surprised …

Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park – Trenton, ME

Trenton is a bordering town to Mount Desert Island, Maine. Our reason for staying there is that it offered all the conveniences of getting in and out of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park without actually staying on the island itself. The problem with staying nearer to the center of Mount Desert Island (“MDI”, as …

Maine’s Oldest Lighthouse – As seen from Freeport, ME

Our stop in Freeport was intended to break the trip to Bar Harbor into a smaller distances and give us an opportunity to see Maine’s most famous lighthouse on Cape Elizabeth. Portland Head Light, Maine’s oldest lighthouse, sits at the entrance to Portland Harbor. Completed in 1791 at the directive of George Washington in 1787, …

Connecticut and Rhode Island – Plymouth, CT

We landed at Gentile’s Campground on Saturday, June 30th, just in time for the 4th of July crowd. As campgrounds go, Gentile’s is a mixed bag. While the site was level, the owners very nice, and the place was quite wooded, it was also sort of trashy in spots. Most of that was due to …