Mile 10,793. Home. 75 total days on the road. The first thing I did when I got home was walk through a screen door, knocking it off the tracks. Twenty-five years in this house and not once, until now, have I walked through a screen door. And believe me, there[…]
Mile 9752. Armitage Park in Eugene, OR. 892 miles from home. Trains, trains, trains. That’s what it feels like anyway. We hit a bit of an anomaly in BC in Spences Bridge – what must be the hottest and most arid part of the province. Temperatures almost touching 100 degrees[…]
Mile 9022. Kokanee Bay Motel & Campground in Lac La Hache, BC. 64 days on the road. Population density returns the further south we travel. Towns are closer together, traffic is continuous, there are obvious signs of industry – logging, milling, semi trucks transporting goods, and an active railroad. Significant[…]
Mile 8235. Bear River RV Park, Stewart, BC, straddling the U.S. border at Hyder, AK. Talk about getting an idea stuck in your head. Yesterday we took a 52-mile day trip to see the toe of the Salmon Glacier, the fifth largest glacier in North America. Only the drive was[…]
Mile 7541. Hi Country RV Park in Whitehorse, YT (again). The last blog was written outside on a beautiful sunny warm evening in Tok, AK. The next morning I awoke to rain and the smell of smoke, both of which put me in a foul mood, irritated by everything and[…]
Mile 6824. Tok RV Village in Tok, AK. Week 8, Day 1. A pull through campsite where you don’t have to unhook the truck is a treat after a long day of driving. The miles aren’t commensurate with number of hours driven. It’s more the condition of the road, much[…]
Mile 6021. Quartz Creek Campground, Cooper Landing, Kenai Peninsula. Homer or Bust. That’s been our motto for the past year. I even doodled it in snow on the Icefield Parkway skywalk outside of Jasper exactly one month ago. Homer, at a glance and in our minds, was both the northern[…]
Mile 5735. Deep Creek View Campground, Ninilchik on the Kenai Peninsula. Raining. After spending the day by myself I realize that time alone every three weeks is not enough for someone like me who values alone time, needs it to recharge, and is used to having it. Here I’ve been[…]
Mile 5131. Denali Grizzly Bear Resort, Denali National Park. 37 days on the road. One day I think there’s not enough to write a post, not enough photos to share, and the next there is too much. I won’t know until I get to the bottom, but there may be[…]
Mile 4759. “C” Lazy Moose RV Park 65 miles SE of Fairbanks, AK. Sunrise 3:25am, sunset 12:24am. Don’t be fooled by the sunrise, sunset times. The sun never really sets here. The photo above was taken at 9:00pm, at Midnight Dome (Dawson City) where the summer solstice has been celebrated[…]
Mile 4369. Gold Rush Campground in Dawson City, YT. 165 miles south of the Arctic Circle. We found ourselves on the road yesterday trying to “get ahead of it” again. This time trying to break free of smoky unhealthy air from a fire SE of Dawson City that grew considerably[…]
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[…]
There’s no rhyme or reason to this post. I just need to write it to test the new subscription service on my website. “Subscribe to the blog if you want to follow us on the trip”, we told family and friends. Only it turns out the sign up feature wasn’t[…]
What makes this all possible? This 9000 mile journey? My husband’s retirement. After 30+ years Mark is leaving the world of Surety. Five years ago he told his boss he was retiring and planning for this trip began. Countless hours on the internet researching RVs with Two and Half Men[…]
The Alaska Highway is what some would consider the greatest American road trip. Built in the 1940s after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it connected the once neglected U.S. Territory to the contiguous United States allowing the U.S. to protect itself from a land invasion from Japan, a possibility that[…]
My husband has gone fishing. I’m at the picnic bench in our campground surrounded by the majestic pines of the San Bernardino National Forest and listening to the wind through the trees and the lively conversation of Steller’s Jays. A squirrel is foraging for food inching its way towards the[…]
Practice makes perfect. Or as my choir conductor always says, practice makes permanent. Either way, my husband and I recognize the importance of practicing before our big trip. We’re jumping right in, bringing little to no RV experience to this grand adventure. Our mild weather makes camping in winter possible[…]
My husband fulfilled a dream last fall. He bought his first RV – a 2011 Aljo Ultra-Lite travel trailer by Skyline. Now we’re working on an even larger dream of his – a trip along the The Alaska Highway, a 1400 one way trip from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to[…]