Mile 3943. Hi Country R.V. Park in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Daylight hours 18. Here, in the capital of the Yukon Territory, we rest for a few days. A fire near Dawson City (north of us) blanketed the sky and scented the air with smoke when we arrived. But today both[…]

Mile 3650. Watson Lake, Yukon Territory. Day 21. Sunrise 4:11am, sunset 11:01pm. Hello? Is the world still out there? We’ve been 48 hours without any coverage whatsoever. Mark didn’t care, but I had a difficult time settling without it. We arrived in Dawson Creek BC (not of television series fame),[…]

Mile 2898. Country Roads R.V. Park, Grande Prairie, AB. 1 Black Bear, 4 Elk, 1 Mountain Goat, 2 Deer, 2 Seagulls, 1 almost dead Squirrel. The beauty of this kind of trip is flexibility. We have no campground reservations after Jasper. From this point forward stops can be lengthened or[…]

Mile 2321. Pocahontas Campground in Jasper National Park, Alberta. No cell service, no Wifi. We successfully entered Canada on June 15th. Twenty minutes to cross. No search. No kids selling Chiclets or climbing on the car to wash the windshield. All the expected questions except one – when was your[…]

Mile 1652. Wenatchee Confluence Park in Wenatchee, WA. One coyote, two deer, six mosquito bites. Sunrise 5:02am, sunset 8:58pm. A few nights ago we camped at Maryhill State Park, a campground nestled on the northern bank of the Columbia River, the largest river in the Pacific Northwest. Our site looked[…]

Mile 1107. LaPine State Park on the Deschutes River in La Pine, OR (south of Bend). MPG 11.4. Oregon gas is $1.00 less per gallon than California. We’re still in familiar territory with decades full of memories of fun family vacations in Sunriver, Bend, and neighboring areas. I didn’t think[…]

Mile 790. Antlers RV Park & Campground, Lakehead (Shasta Lake). Nearly 800 miles and we’re still in California. This is the problem living in the southern end of a long narrow state, it takes forever to cross its northern border. I’ve traveled this route many times over the last 30[…]

Mile 244. Port San Luis Woodyard Campground in Avila Beach CA. Our front door is steps away from the beach; our back door within walking distance to the entrance of the only active nuclear power plant in California. Those of us who are old enough may remember Diablo Canyon. In[…]