Those initials are for the next part of our summer journey. Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah. We are in Soap Lake, Washington for 2 weeks to visit the "Scablands" Here's some highlights of our trip up to this point: AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS Small but beautiful gardens in Amarillo. One of the best we've seen. Spent over 2 hours taking photos and enjoying the different parts of the garden. Gorgeous Columbine display at the entrance. Common Morning-Glory Fishtail Palm Tree that was located in the indoor tropical part of the garden. CHACO CANYON ..read more

We left Florida April 19th on our latest trip, this one going out west for the summer/early fall. This is going to be 6-7 months of adventure! Here's our journey so far. We are currently west of Fort Worth, Texas for 4 nights to see the Zoo, the Botanical Gardens and, most of all.....to eat Texas BBQ !! From the top going clock-wise, we have a half-eaten pork rib, in the upper right - pickled red onions and below that is the apple coleslaw, then... three more ribs, sausage, brisket with BBQ sauce, then pickled cucumbers and red potato salad.  Oh, and there's an interest ..read more

Finally, we got back on the water. This time at Meacham Lake in upper state New York, just on the north edge of the Adirondack Mountains (you can see the push pin on the map). 90 degrees hot so we wore our sun-umbrella hats. Launched from the river that came out of the lake. And, of course, all three of us got in the warm lake. Launch point looking upriver Nice cloud cover kept the heat down. Katie likes to sit in back sometimes and take a nap. But, every now and then, she wants to see what's going on. Quiet, still waters and very, very peacefu ..read more

This Scoodic Point is one of our favorite places to visit when we're up here in Northeast Maine. Something about the rocks, the fog, the remoteness of it is very appealing.  You can see the Red push pin to the right of the map with Acadia National Park right in the middle on Mt. Desert Island. With the parking lot to the top, you can see how large an area this encompasses. And look at the stripes of black rock. I'll show those in another photo below. Of course, Kim and I get all geeked out when we see Geology stuff so, naturally, this was one of our favorite sit ..read more

Here's one that is very unusual. You've heard of people that collect anything...match sticks, gum wrappers, beer cans, etc. But, I bet you never heard of people collection Coleman products...especially Coleman lanterns!! There are over 75 lanterns set up here...each one brought over for a Night Glow photo event on the last day of their gathering! Here's a close up as they are arriving. All colors and models. Very cool! When we arrived a the RV park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, we noticed a number of the trailers had large tables set up with lanterns on them. Odd. So, one af ..read more

Well, we're waaaay behind in our blog entries as we've already visited 12 places and are on our 13th one right now. So, instead of many individual entries, we're going to combine them into one only. Enjoy the photos! Our trip so far....starting with Washington out west, all the way to Wisconsin WASHINGTON: The Dry Lake Falls were created by massive floods around 10,000 years ago. These cliffs are 400 feet tall and over 3.5 miles wide! The flood waters that came over the cliffs here were over 400 higher than you see here! This cliff area started 20 miles downstream and, as the water ..read more

We've already started our summer trip but never posted anything else for our May Nevada trip soooo.. MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA This was an unexpected stop...did not realize how much there was to see and do...but we tried to fit them all in. Bodie, The Mill Town, a couple of kayak lakes, Tioga Pass, Mono Lake Tuffas, the largest Jeffery Pine forest in the world, an obsidian volcano and a mountain side of pumice. Kim has always wanted to see the best preserved (and largest) ghost town in America, Bodie. So, we parked the coach at the Mono Lake Visitor's Center, unhooked our pickup and took a ride ..read more

One of the places we've always wanted to visit...well, actually I've always to visit....is the Bonneville Salt Flats on the Great Salt Lake outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. We'll get to our visit in a bit, but first.... This is where the world land speed records are set for vehicles. The current speed record is 763.035 mph (1227.986 km/h (the record-breaking speed averaged over the 2 runs of the measured mile). This one was run at Black Rock Desert in Nevada which is west of Winnemucca, Nevada. Thrust SSC https://landspeedrecord.org/thrust-ssc-andy-green/  Just so you can see ..read more

Twin Falls will be the largest city we visit this month with over 51,000 people. We thought this would be a nice first stop to get our coach organized as it's only about 165 miles from our home....and boy....did we organize! Well, Kim has done most of it while I slept in....zzzzzzzzzzzz. The big attraction in Twin Falls is the Shoshone Falls. Here's a few photos of when the Snake River is really flowing over the falls and some with very little. Springtime runoff We went here in the Fall to see the falls. I forgot that there's very little river flow during the autumn. Duh ..read more

What city do people think of when you mention Nevada? VEGAS....right? Well, no Las Vegas or the other big city, Reno, on this trip. We're going to be desert rats in small towns.  Here's the population breakdown of the towns we're going to visit: 175 people,  68 people, 182 people, 1176 people, 1807 people, 217 people.. You're asking, "What is there?"  Bonneville Salt Flats • A spot where you can view the curvature of the earth • Bristlecone Pine Trees that are between 4,000 and 5,000 years old • Wild Burro Refuge • Death Valley • East entrance to Yosemite • Eastern Sierr ..read more