Chattanooga. The Noog. Nooga. The Scenic City. Not matter what you call it, this cute town on the Tennessee River offers a unique combo of city life and outdoor adventures. Chattanooga is so much more than just its famous choo-choo! We gave it two thumbs up during a weeklong stay! Just this past April, Chattanooga received the rare “National Park City”...
Alabama isn’t really our sweet HOME, but after a spin through Northern AL, we just might like it to be! Not typically known for tourist attractions, we nevertheless scoped out its really unusual, charming places! Tuscumbia SEVEN SPRINGS LODGE & THE RATTLESNAKE SALOON We stayed at a most-unusual RV campground, located on a 3,000-acre horse ranch...
We took a quick spin through Mississippi and saw some fun stuff — some cool, some pretty, and some just plain pretty funny. First up was Elvis Presley’s Birthplace in Tupelo, where he lived from birth in 1935 to age 13. It’s an expansive campus surrounding a tiny two-room shack, for little Elvis was as poor as the day was long. He (and his twin, who...
“Return to Caddo Lake” sounds like a slasher horror film, and this strange, mystical, lake-slash-bayou is possibly haunted and the setting of many a Hollywood film. In 12 years of RV’ing, there are only a handful of places to which we’ve returned (last time: 2020), but Caddo Lake is one of them! “Government Ditch” is the well-known...
¡ Viva Fiesta ! The rallying cry of San Antonio’s Fiesta Festival tells you all you need to know about this 134-year-old tradition …. Viva = Long Live, Fiesta = Party! Long live the party life, throughout the city, for 11 days of events. With over 100 happenings (including three major parades), Fiesta San Antonio commemorates the Battle of the Alamo and...
Our Summer 2025 road trip is off to a “rocky” start, but in a good way! Our first two stops were at a rock-filled New Mexico state park, and a Texas sand dune. Deming, NM – Rockhound State Park Look! It’s a hound at Rockhound! The campground is set at the base of the “Little Florida Mountains,” which why they are not instead called...
Channel Islands National Park: We had heard this string of 5 protected islands referred to as the “Galapagos of North America,” which sounded pretty darn enticing. Only 20+ miles off the California coast, it is certainly worlds apart from the hustle and bustle of the mainland … no vehicles, no pets, no drones, no In’N’Out Burger …...
Valentines Day, 2025: Kanab, Utah. We braved the wintry weather for its annual hot air balloon festival, Balloons and Tunes. We had a travel buddy in Connor, our 3-year-old grandson, who had never seen balloons before. For Connor, and therefore also for us, it truly was “Love at First Flight.” Being from Phoenix, it was also “Love at First...
It’s been a while since we’ve blogged, because it has been a while since we’ve RV’ed — last summer’s trip to the Northeast, to be exact. We did take a (rare, non-RV) European river cruise in October, however … spending time in Prague, Czech Republic, then cruising seven days on the Danube River, then a few days in Budapest...
The last charming stops of our 2024 trip were in Kansas. Kansas gets a bad rap as being flat (always true) and boring (not always true), and besides being the geographical center of the country, it’s a state of farmlands and salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners. We’re always surprised to find little hidden treasures in Kansas! Strataca Salt Mine (Hutchinson...