The province of Quebec, Canada is the heartland of French-Canadian culture, and a taste of Europe without the pricey airfare! Old Quebec City, circa 1608, and its picture postcard street scenes, brought out our inner Piérre and Theresé! The residents of Quebec are headstrong, independent, fiercely opinionated. The fact that most buildings display the...
After ferrying the Lucky Charm across the water from New York, we arrived in Burlington, Vermont for a week-long stay. Sprinkles and I would hold down the (RV) fort, while Philip would fly back to the West Coast for meetings related to his Las Vegas project. Burlington is perhaps best-known as the 1978 birthplace of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, that of the creamy...
Making our way north from Niagara Falls over roughly 10 days, we hit the Adirondack Mountains and the towns of Ticonderoga, Lake Placid/Saranac Lake, and an overnight in tiny Baldwinsville. We are from the West Coast. Also, most of our geographical knowledge has been gained from watching Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York go on vacation. So, we...
Ahhhh, Niagara Falls, one of the seven modern wonders of the world, you fooled us! Fully expecting to be underwhelmed, drawn in by unwarranted hype, instead we found ourselves awed and humbled, over and over again. We were truly “barreled over”! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) If you don’t see rainbows at Niagara...
The final week of our travels around the Mitten passed in a blur of wonderful memories, including four more days with my parents, as well as a great visit with cousins (and fellow RV’ers!) John and Judy, up from Florida! ************************* The popular town of Petoskey has a beautiful walkable gaslight district full of shops, tasting...
Michigan’s slogan is “Pure Michigan” …. purely beautiful, purely magical, and purely different from Arizona, that’s for sure! The FORMER slogan, however, was “Great Lakes, Great Times” and that even better describes our time in Michigan, because our folks met up with us for a week of great times. Before that, however...
A scant 36 hours in Wisconsin yielded exactly one stop, but it was a beauty! The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is like a National Park, but on water. It is overseen by the National Park Service, just like its land-based brethren. The Apostle Islands include 21 mostly uninhabited islands off the coast of Bayfield, Wisconsin. Philip is pointing to our...
Trying (and failing) to escape the cold and rain, we next visited Minnesota and its many lakes, rivers, and waterfalls. License plates proclaim Minnesota “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but that’s only because the more-accurate “Land of 11,842 Lakes” isn’t very catchy. Large and small, they’ve got ’em all! All these...
Ahhhh, South Dakota! You gave us a little of everything … the Bad, the Bold, and the Beautiful! Specifically, the Bad(lands) and Bad travel, the Bold adventures, and the Beautiful views and scenery! Leaving Utah and heading for South Dakota served up some of our most punishing travel yet. A freak SummerBlizzard moved through the west, blanketing the area...
Day 1 (of 146!) dawned clear and bright. This was it … the start of our longest RV trip yet, one we are calling (tah-dah ….) THE GRAND LOOP! Questions abound. Would we dislike being gone that long? Would we get homesick? Would we kill each other? (Nah!) With a friend safely installed in our home for the five...