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Machesney Park, IL 12.01.2018
Madison, Wisconsin 12.01.2018
Green Bay Packers (Only NFL team owned by the Public) 03.10.2017
Snowmobile Capital of the World ! (Eagle River, WI) 03.10.2017
Apostle Islands, Wisconsin 02.10.2017
Mackinac Island no cars allowed, so ride horse to Starbucks! 02.10.2017
Grand Island-Offshore island w/Bears & rustic camping 30.09.2017
Great Lake (Lake Superior)-10% Earths Freshwater &icy cold 29.09.2017
Pictured Rocks, MI (and Pasties) 29.09.2017
GPS routed us to Snowmobile, ATV, Logging, & Dogsled road !! 28.09.2017
Great Lakes (Lake Michigan-) - 4 of 5 Great Lakes in MI? 28.09.2017
Tahquamenon Falls Park & Whitefish Point 27.09.2017
Mackinac Bridge (Engineering Marvel) !! - ride ferry under i 26.09.2017
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 26.09.2017
Great Lakes (Lake Huron) - Clear water, & Cool metalworking 25.09.2017
Great Lakes (Lake Erie) 'Sign' AVOID ALL CONTACT w/WATER)!! 21.09.2017
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland Ohio)!! 21.09.2017
KOA's Island formerly owned by GE 21.09.2017
Erie Canal & Covered Bridge 21.09.2017
Niagara Falls, NY 21.09.2017
Lake Placid, NY (1980 Winter Olympics - US Beats Russia!) 19.09.2017
VT Food tours (Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream & Cold Hollow Cider) 19.09.2017
VT Food Tours (Maple Syrup Farm & Cabot cheese) 19.09.2017
Steven King's hometown to watch 'IT' movie! 19.09.2017
If Van breaks, camp in auto repair shop lot 19.09.2017
Most NE Pt in US (W Quoddy LIghthouse, ME) - 1st US Sunrise 18.09.2017
Only International Peace Park in World (FDR's Canada home) 16.09.2017
Acadia NP (Schoodic Peninsula) - go here, more remote... 13.09.2017
Acadia Nat Park (Cadillac Mountain; Sandy Beach & Blowhole) 12.09.2017
Boston, MA (Paul Revere's Lanterns; & Boston Massacre site) 12.09.2017
Salem, Massachusetts (home of Salem 1692 Witch Trials) 10.09.2017
Anniversary in Cape Cod area - Where Movie 'Jaws' Filmed 09.09.2017
NYC Ferry (w/view) same cost as NYC Subway - yes! 09.09.2017
9/11 Memorial in NYC 09.09.2017
Floyd Bennett Field (NYC 1st Airport, now abandonded campgro 07.09.2017
Philadelphia, PA (Liberty Bell & Indepencence Hall) 07.09.2017
Gettysburg Nat. Mil Park and Hershey, PA 07.09.2017
9/11 Memorial for Flight 93 Heroes 06.09.2017
Ford Theatre (Where Pres. Lincoln was killed) 06.09.2017
DC (Visit Family; + Harpers Ferry,WV + Manassas 1st Civil Wa 06.09.2017
Assateague Island NP and wild horses 04.09.2017
Great Falls National Park 04.09.2017
White House & Solar Eclipse on DC Mall 04.09.2017
DC Memorials (Lincoln; Vietnam; Korean; WW2; Washington Monu 04.09.2017
Arlington Nat.Cem - JFKs Grave & Tomb of Unknown Soldier 04.09.2017
4 young men & a lunch counter change the US in 1960 30.08.2017
Wars in NC (Greensboro & Raleigh) 30.08.2017
Durham Tobacco District (re-use of abandonded buildings) 30.08.2017
Raleigh (Eno River; Duke Chapel & Gardens) 30.08.2017
Raleigh to visit Family 30.08.2017
Kitty Hawk, NC (Birthplace of Flight) 12.08.2017
Ft Raleigh, NC (The 'Lost Colony'), now Expensive Colony? 12.08.2017
Outer Banks NC (Oregon Inlet) - Oops, cut power to Tourists! 12.08.2017
Outer Banks NC (Hatteras) Tallest brick lighthouse in US 12.08.2017
Outer Banks NC (Ocracoke Island) - Blackbeard & Lighthouse 12.08.2017
Sealevel, NC (on our way to Outer Banks, NC) 07.08.2017
Wilmington, NC 07.08.2017
Myrtle Beach, SC (tourist town!!!) 07.08.2017
Savannah, GA (so charming was spared in Civil War).. 07.08.2017
Ft Pulaski, GA (a Fort w/a moat & water still !!) 07.08.2017
Washington Oaks Park (Gardens and Beach for only $4) 07.08.2017
Mission de Nombre (1st church service in New Colony) 03.08.2017
St Augustine, FL (Oldest city in US) 03.08.2017
St George Island, FL 29.07.2017
Gulf Islands Seashore (Pensacola, FL) - white sand beaches! 28.07.2017
Gulf Islands N. Seashore - flesh eating bacteria & tent w/AC 25.07.2017
Swamplands outside New Orleans 24.07.2017
New Orleans (Lake Ponchartrain) - Longest bridge in world! 24.07.2017
New Orleans (French Quarter) 23.07.2017
New Orleans (Garden District) 23.07.2017
Natchez Trace Parkway 19.07.2017
Vicksburg National Military Park 19.07.2017
How do you pronounce this city name (Dumas) Arkansas!! 19.07.2017
Pocahontas stop 19.07.2017
Coondog Cemetery (only one in the World !) 13.07.2017
Tuscumbia, AL 13.07.2017
FAME Recording Studios (The Muscle Shoals Sound) 13.07.2017
The Fight for Chattanooga, TN gateway to the deep South 13.07.2017
Laurel Falls; Smoky Mtn National Park 13.07.2017
Blue Ridge Parkway 13.07.2017
Hiking the Appalachian Trail ! 13.07.2017
Clingmans Dome 13.07.2017
Rocky Top, TN 11.07.2017
TN Smoked BBQ Yum !! 11.07.2017
Stop and go traffic to see 1 deer? 11.07.2017
Appalachian Clubhouse 11.07.2017
Coal Creek Mine Disaster 11.07.2017
Cumberland Gap N. Hist. Park 08.07.2017
Original Home of KFC Chicken! 08.07.2017
Cumberland Falls S. Park KY 07.07.2017
Glasgow, KY (not Scotland !) 07.07.2017
Mammoth Cave Nat. Park. (Kentucky) 07.07.2017
George Rogers Clark Nat. His. Park 07.07.2017
Back to Rockford again 07.07.2017
Big Sugar State Park 17.06.2017
Buffalo National River (US' first Historic River) 17.06.2017
Thorncrown Chapel (Church in the Woods in AR) 17.06.2017
Pea Ridge National Battlefield (Key battle of US Civil War) 17.06.2017
MO Campground w/ Zipline into lake! 14.06.2017
You're not in Kansas anymore.. 14.06.2017
Kansas City, KS 14.06.2017
Omaha, NE 14.06.2017
Devil's Gulch 13.06.2017
Fargo, ND (Like the movie) 13.06.2017
Planet Fitness for a camp site? 13.06.2017
First stop, Wisconsin! 13.06.2017
Denzil likes heading out! 13.06.2017
Southwest trip has ended, regrouping now! 10.04.2017
Hospital in Jonesboro 05.04.2017
I'm from Oklahoma City, Ok sir.. 04.04.2017
Sorry TX, LA, MS, FL, NC, see you later.... 03.04.2017
Visit to Tim before his knee surgery 30.03.2017
Birthday rock hammer present getting use 28.03.2017
100% of AZ National Parks & Monuments - check! 27.03.2017
Chiricahua National Monument 26.03.2017
Windshield repair needed?! 25.03.2017
Tuzigoot National Monument 24.03.2017
Montezuma Castle Monument 24.03.2017
Pipe Spring National Monument 22.03.2017
Navajo Indian oldest operating trading post 21.03.2017
Under-advertised place that over-delivered!! 21.03.2017
Painted Desert National Monument 21.03.2017
Route 66 inside a National Park? 21.03.2017
A Girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford ..... 20.03.2017
Walnut Canyon National Monument 20.03.2017
Flintstones campground by Grand Canyon 19.03.2017
A Tale of two Grand Canyons!! 19.03.2017
Tour guides provide great info 18.03.2017
Taking Ann to an AZ National Park 18.03.2017
Corned Beef Tacos w/Cabbage for St Pats ? 16.03.2017
Flagstaff to see family 1 more time. 15.03.2017
Hiking from campgorund is nice 13.03.2017
Skull Valley, AZ (cool sounding name) 12.03.2017
Cowboys, Retirees, Hikers, & gun factory 11.03.2017
50's diner-hotel-campground & Mcdonalds 10.03.2017
Campgrounds are booked back to AZ 09.03.2017
Blufftop ocean camping & historic cottages 07.03.2017
LA tar pits museum & Hilarious Plumbers truck 06.03.2017
Elephant Seals take over the beach! 04.03.2017
'Yes, the road is closed, no you can't go that way 03.03.2017
Skateboard Museum & Boat Ride 02.03.2017
50th Bday @ the Beach!! 28.02.2017
America's Galapagos just offshore 27.02.2017
From Phoenix to CA for Bday 26.02.2017
Exploring a cave unsupervised, WHAT! 24.02.2017
Copper Mine Tour (Denzil very excited!) 24.02.2017
'Rent a tire' store, LOL. and Chili gummies 22.02.2017
"Most Dangerous National Park" , on US/MX border.. 19.02.2017
Rare rainy day in PHX 16.02.2017
Tonto National Monument 15.02.2017
Roosevelt Dam & Lake still going strong today! 15.02.2017
Largest Natural Travertine Bridge in the world 15.02.2017
Lost Dutchman State Park 14.02.2017
Superstition Mtns & Goldfield Mine 14.02.2017
Back in Phoenix next 2 weeks 13.02.2017
Ann had the scary drive 12.02.2017
Amarillo by Evening 11.02.2017
Hotel "I can ask my Wife if you can use our bathtu 08.02.2017
Funeral and chance to visit family 05.02.2017
Cherry shake & green chile cheeseburger 04.02.2017
Waffles shaped like Texas?! 04.02.2017
Driving from AZ to AR 03.02.2017
AZ Science Center for free! 01.02.2017
$625 a month w/all utilities & 70 degrees in F 31.01.2017
AR to Rockford to Mesa 29.01.2017
Tens of Thousands of Nesting birds in AR! 23.01.2017
The Beatles in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas !!? 18.01.2017
Mesa to Rockford to Arkansas.. 15.01.2017
Completed 1st 'Extreme difficulty' rated trail ! 11.01.2017
Mountain park road to see PHX below 10.01.2017
Very accurate park name LOL 10.01.2017
Indian Cultures museum 09.01.2017
'Meet me downtown PHX' bday 08.01.2017
Musical Instrument Museum; (MIM) #2 to do In PHX 07.01.2017
Hiking in January, so nice 06.01.2017
New Years Eve in AZ 30.12.2016
Christmas in Freeport and Festival of lights tradi 23.12.2016
Christmas & Bday celebration in Byron 22.12.2016
Visiting friends in Rockford 21.12.2016
Flight from Mesa to Rockford (Cacti to Shovels) 20.12.2016
Visit to Phoenix again before Christmas in IL 19.12.2016
Long walk to driveway bus stop and horse ride 18.12.2016
Looks like snow, but it's White Sands!!! 15.12.2016
Checking to see if cabin survived the fire 12.12.2016
Family and Christmas parade in Alamogordo, NM 09.12.2016
Find & keep 15 pounds of Rocks 05.12.2016
Camping inside remote rock pinnacles 04.12.2016
Giant saguaro cactus everywhere. 03.12.2016
Shootout at the OK Corral 02.12.2016
Aircraft boneyard (we MUST go)!!!! 01.12.2016
Spanish Mission from 1692 30.11.2016
Inside tour of the Titan Missile Silo !!! 30.11.2016
Nogales to visit Family 29.11.2016
On way to Nogales, AZ 28.11.2016
Visit to Brenda, AZ 27.11.2016
Largest RV gathering, Ghost town, & Gold mine 27.11.2016
Hiking in Arizona 25.11.2016
Thanksgiving with Family in Phoenix 20.11.2016
Vegas on the way to Phoenix 19.11.2016
Clown Motel (No way) Walmart parking lot's better 18.11.2016
Area 51 (as close as we could get at least) 18.11.2016
Desolation Canyon hike in Death Valley, no shortcu 17.11.2016
Rocks that move, high clearance vehicle required. 16.11.2016
Warm spring water Olympic size pool, in desert? 16.11.2016
Climbed to bottom of volcanic crater!! 15.11.2016
Death Valley's old mines 14.11.2016
Stovepipe Wells; Sand Dunes and Artist's Drive 14.11.2016
Charcoal kilns 1879, & free Campground w/burro 13.11.2016
Death Valley W. Entrance 12.11.2016
Mountain cool, trees, and ranching 11.11.2016
Back in Bakersfield, enroute to Death Valley 10.11.2016
Creative solutions to stay at beach campground 08.11.2016
Election day spent on beach in swimsuit 07.11.2016
The dream beach campground!!! 04.11.2016
Trying to get beach campground.. 04.11.2016
Have to get back to beach 03.11.2016
LA, Hollywood, Venice Beach & Baywatch site 02.11.2016
Stopped by the US Border patrol at fence! 01.11.2016
Dia de Muertos (Day of the dead) very cool 31.10.2016
San Diego (What's not to love!!!) 30.10.2016
Salton Sea (Inland Sea on San Andreas fault) 29.10.2016
Laughlin to regroup 28.10.2016
RV parks on the internet! 27.10.2016
Tourist town w/ 'Energy vortex' & Buddhist Stu 26.10.2016
Wupatki & Sunset Crater National Monument 24.10.2016
Family in Flagstaff :) 24.10.2016
Beautiful remote area near Grand Canyon 23.10.2016
Cool Navajo bridges with Condors 22.10.2016
Definitely go to the Grand Canyon N Rim 22.10.2016
Horseshoe Bend - famous photo spot, with long hike 21.10.2016
Lake Powell is largest manmade lake in US 20.10.2016
School holiday so campgrounds booked.. 20.10.2016
Iconic Canyon and a long hike down into it 19.10.2016
Kodachrome Basin (named after the film by NatGeo) 18.10.2016
Last part of the Lower 48 to get mapped out 18.10.2016
Canyons, OHV Park, and Mormon fruit orchards 17.10.2016
Tourist town to get groceries and fix electricity 16.10.2016
US BLM campgrounds are free (for a reason!) lol 15.10.2016
Natural Bridges (people used to drive on them?) 14.10.2016
John Wayne, Forrest Gump, & Transformers 3 13.10.2016
Snakes in Bathroom and Wild horses 11.10.2016
Mesa Verde Cliff palace dwellings 10.10.2016
Aztec monument but really Pueblo 09.10.2016
South Fork, CO (not South Park, CO) LOL 08.10.2016
Pike's Peak 07.10.2016
Cliff Dwellings 06.10.2016
Elk in the Snow! 05.10.2016
Fat tire bewery for Melissa 05.10.2016
Visit to family in WY 04.10.2016
Colorado before it snows 03.10.2016
Utah State Park all to ourselves 02.10.2016
What happens in Vegas 01.10.2016
Earthquake warning & #1 in Pollution, let's go 29.09.2016
Climbed a Mountain & saw 'Worlds Largest tree' 28.09.2016
The National Christmas Tree 27.09.2016
Most famous Ghost Town in US 26.09.2016
Yosemite is too touristy 26.09.2016
Freezing in Lake Tahoe 25.09.2016
Lassen Volcano National Park 24.09.2016
Brakes done yet? 23.09.2016
Shady Cove, OR (? a Scooby Doo town), salmon 22.09.2016
Crater Lake, Snow, Fog, and still scenic 21.09.2016
Wow remote camping for $3/night! 20.09.2016
101 Road Trip (Entire Oregon Coast we did it!!) 19.09.2016
From the Redwood Forest to ......... 19.09.2016
Driving on the sand, not a good idea LOL 18.09.2016
You can stay in this lighthouse/ bed&breakfast 17.09.2016
Surfing competition on long boards 17.09.2016
Abandonded Lighthouse with history on a hike! 14.09.2016
3 Capes Drive on 101 South 14.09.2016
Hwy 101 South through Oregon 14.09.2016
Oregon Coast shelled by Japanese sub!!! 13.09.2016
Colombia River Gorge 12.09.2016
Yakima visit (Brenda's Mom's hometown) 11.09.2016
Hoh Rainforest 10.09.2016
Beautiful sunset @ Rialto Beach in NW WA 09.09.2016
Beach with seastar 09.09.2016
Most NW Point in Lower 48 - Cape Flattery, WA 08.09.2016
Forks, WA (Home of Twilight series) & festival 07.09.2016
Olympic National Park (Ocean section) 06.09.2016
Olympic National Park (Mountains section) 05.09.2016
Mt Rainier (Finally we saw you 2nd time around) 04.09.2016
Mt St Helens - Largest landslide in History!!! 03.09.2016
Apple fritters in Olympia 02.09.2016
If Seattle comes camping you go to Seattle!! 01.09.2016
Beautiful Diablo lake and no crowds yet 31.08.2016
Anniversary stay in small mountain town 31.08.2016
Wheat fields to Apple Orchards 30.08.2016
Spending night in Davenport (WA) 29.08.2016
Yes Debby, there is an Idaho 28.08.2016
Nez Perce Big Hole National Monument 27.08.2016
Old Montana State Prison and Bikers from England 27.08.2016
Finally civilization 26.08.2016
What could possibly go wrong? Fire road exit 26.08.2016
Mail delivery is a problem! 25.08.2016
Cheap bed & breakfast = Hostel/Bakery combo 24.08.2016
4 am to get a Campsite! Is this NP Black Friday! 23.08.2016
Two Medicine (Glacier's original entrance!) 23.08.2016
Saw a Black Bear!!! And got wooded campsite 20.08.2016
KOA just outside Glacier National Park 19.08.2016
Lots of free maps 19.08.2016
Back in US. Tomorrow Glacier NP 18.08.2016
Old Grain Elevator @ Sunset in Denzil, SK; Canada 17.08.2016
Denzil goes to Denzil, Saskatchewan, Canada! 17.08.2016
US Canada border time, and Canada has oil fields? 17.08.2016
Nite in Montana before Canada 16.08.2016
A dam in Montana with more shoreline than CA?! 16.08.2016
Big Sky Scenic Byway & local diner 16.08.2016
Devils Tower before the tour buses! 16.08.2016
Spent night @ Devils Tower (Close Encounters movie 15.08.2016
Beautiful stay for only $10 14.08.2016
Mt Rushmore is awesome 14.08.2016
The Needles Highway in a hailstorm!! 14.08.2016
Something missing 14.08.2016
Wind cave and prairie dogs 14.08.2016
A week for an oil change!! ? 14.08.2016
Staying near Mt Rushmore 13.08.2016
Crazy Horse Memorial 13.08.2016
Deadwood where Wild Bill was killed! 13.08.2016
At Sturgis Motorcycle Rally without a motorcycle 12.08.2016
Wow the Badlands are amazing! 11.08.2016
In South Dakota now! 10.08.2016
High heat index & van electric a/c acting up 09.08.2016
First tourist stop on trip! 09.08.2016
Early birthday celebration for Mom 08.08.2016
Visit to Mom in South before heading North on trip 07.08.2016
Our last night in Rockford (for real this time!) 06.08.2016
Birthday party w/ family before heading out 05.08.2016
Camping just down the road 04.08.2016
House is sold today campground tonight 03.08.2016