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  Proof we are really at Kartchner Caverns State Park in Arizona. Our poor neglected blog! Over a month without an update.My excuse is that we have been busy. What is this area like: First a few pictures of the Park. There is a strictly no cameras in the cave policy so all of the pictures will have to be outside. The above pictures shows our site in the Lower Volunteer Village.

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Sunset over the Whetstone Mountains of Arizona Since Kathy would not let me take any pictures of her surgery or various Doctor tests, the above is the first picture I have taken since mid-September. Yes! We finally left San Juan Bautista, California and headed off to Kartchner Caverns State Park near Benson, Arizona. Our trip was fine. We stopped in Bakersfield the first night, Blythe.

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Kathy health update: Since we have been here Kathy has been seen by four doctors, had surgery, X-rays, ultrasound, laparoscopy and colonoscopy. After all of that they don't know what is causing her original pain and don't know what else to try. They told her to "give it a few months and report back". We can certainly wait a few months at Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns State Park as well as we can

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Kathy's recovery from her hernia surgery has not gone as hoped. The pain from her surgery has been slow to heal. The Doctor said that is to be expected as her "intestines were like Swiss cheese". More disturbingly is the original pain that brought Kathy to the doctor has not improved and has actually gotten worse since the surgery. The doctors are baffled by what the problem is as nothing shows

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It has been over a month since our last blog post. Kathy says “We should have stayed in Oregon!” First we want to thank the many, many people that made blog comments and sent private emails of condolences over our loss of Raider. With the three of us living together in 400 square feet, 24 hours a day for the past 4 years, everything reminds us of him. We still miss him terribly. Our plan had

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Yesterday during Raider's evening walk he passed away from a sudden heart attack or stroke. Yesterday Raider had come to me and put his chin on my the footrest of my recliner to let me know that it was time for his evening walk. He was his usual self with his big happy grin, schmoozing with anyone he saw to get extra love and sniffing everything in sight. The RV Park we are staying at has a

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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Newport, Oregon Once again have gotten behind in posting blog entries. This entry was started 3 weeks ago but only finished today. Newport, Oregon is the only town I know of that has two lighthouses. The Yaquina Head Lighthouse that I wrote about back in the blog entry Newport, Oregon – Part 1and the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse. Yaquina Bay Lighthouse and the Coast

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The view from our table at Georgie’s Grill Our busy social time in Newport continued with a visit from Laurie & Odel. They have been fulltime RVers  since 2003. Laurie writes their very popular blog “Semi-True Tales of Our Life on the Road” and they are active members of the Escapee RV Club sub group known as BOOMERS. I started reading their blog years before we started on the road to get

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Inside the Shark tunnel at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. The day after our visit to the Yaquina Head Lighthouse we had a visit from Kirk & Pam Wood. If you have ever read the Escapee Forum or the RV.Net forum., then you must know of Kirk, he must be the busiest poster on those sites. Kirk and Pam have been fulltime RVers for 12 years and have volunteered at 36 different locations. I started

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Yaquina Head Lighthouse Newport, Oregon After our week long stay in Coos Bay we moved up the coast to Newport, Oregon. When we were here two years ago we came for a couple of days and stayed for a week. This time we came for a week and have decided to stay for a month. Our first week here was a rather busy social week for us. Montana Owner. com friends that we met last year in Washington D.C.

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We are back at the Mill Casino RV Park, the land of fast Internet, consistent cell phone service and Porter’s RV Dealer. I had written last time about Cape Blanco: “This is the western most point in Oregon and VERY WINDY ALL OF THE TIME!!” It lived up to our expectations it is either windy and clear or windy with fog. That said we had  wonderful time at Cape Blanco and got to work with a group

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Cape Blanco Lighthouse, Oregon I don’t know how a month has gone by since my last blog update. So, a quick update of what we have been up to. When our replacements as Host for the second half of June arrived at Umpqua Lighthouse, we moved 2 miles to the Winchester Bay RV Resort right on the Umpqua River. Like anytime, packing up for 2 miles is the same as packing up for 200 miles. I really

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Inside the Lens of the Umpqua River Lighthouse On June 1st we moved from Bullard’s Beach State Park where we had been staying all of May to the Umpqua River Lighthouse and Museum, about 40 miles north near the town of Winchester Bay, Oregon. Unique to this location for us is that we aren’t staying in a campground, but are staying here on the grounds of the Museum in a full hookup site setup

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Coquille River Lighthouse Our time here at the Bullard’s Beach State Park in Oregon as Lighthouse Hosts has come to an end. WOW, did this month go by fast! We had a lot of rain over the past week, with some rain everyday and heavy at times. However even in the rain people come out to tour the Lighthouse. Last year when we were in Florida, we visited the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Kathy

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Coquille River Lighthouse During our second week as volunteers we are beginning to understand why some people return to the same location year after year. The campground is very quiet, the view from the top of the lighthouse is ever changing, the people are friendly and town is just big enough to have a few places to eat and get groceries. We had to attend the monthly Safety Meeting. It was

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Coquille River Lighthouse This past week we started our first ever volunteer position as Relief Lighthouse Hosts at the Coquille River Lighthouse which is part of the Bullard's Beach State Park in Oregon. So far we have learned the following about volunteering: 1. You get the site they assign not the one you would pick out for yourself. They definitely gave us a site I wouldn't have picked

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Our campsite in the redwoods at the Crescent City KOA As we drove up the coast towards our May volunteer position as Lighthouse Hosts we had a few days until our site would be ready. We arrived in Crescent City, California on a very clear day with great views. However, once we stepped out of the truck we found out that it was only 50 degrees and there was a very strong cold wind. It has been

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Here is a sign that you just don’t see very often at RV Parks! I will try to bring you up to date on where we have been and what we have been up to. I continued the 52 week Raider picture project for a couple of weeks beyond our last posting. However, since all of the Raider pictures were just pictures of him laying down and resting. I stopped taking them. Rest assured Raider is fine. After

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In March of 2010 we were in Fredericksburg, Texas for two visits of 10 days each. The first visit was a “tourist” visit to see the sights. At the end of that visit we decided to buy a new Montana 5th Wheel. We left Fredericksburg for a week in Kerrville then returned to Fredericksburg to move in to our new trailer. It was a very busy time and the blog was getting further and further behind so

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Without the cone on I can now sleep on MY Couch! Yes, Raider is finally done with his cone he is one very happy puppy. The Vet gave him an all clear and he is good to go.   Raider the coneless happy puppy. Yes, Raider is finally done with his cone he is one very happy puppy. The Vet gave him an all clear and he is good to go. Pahrump Last week was the most consecutive windy days of all

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Raider is still a cone dog Raider has a Vet follow-up appointment tomorrow so we are hoping that the cone will come off but, we won’t know until he is seen by the Vet. What happen to Spring? It was warm enough on Monday that we needed to turn on the A\C. Tuesday was windy, 30 mph with 50 mph gust. The kind of day that no matter what the temperature it wasn’t nice to be outside. The last

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Raider the cone dog doing his ostrich impersonation. Raider returned to the Vet’s on Friday for a follow-up visit. He says that Raider is healing well, but the cone will have to stay on at least until the next checkup in 12 days. Raider isn’t happy about this. Spring has arrived in Pahrump with daytime temperatures in the high 70s. We have been in Pahrump 9 weeks; the longest we have stayed

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This blog entry will end our 2010 trip travelogue as we describe our trip back to the west. Even though I am posting this in March of 2011. We did this trip in October of 2010. Joliet, IL After leaving Elkhart, Indiana our next stop was a visit with our oldest son Tim who lives in Aurora, Illinois. Like all urban areas it is is difficult to find RV Parks in the area. The closest RV Park to

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Raider with his new and even bigger cone Raider’s visit to the Vet didn’t go so well this past week. Since he can’t scratch his ear due to the cone, he has been flailing his head and flapping the ears with the cone. Unfortunately, this caused another hematoma on his ear and he had to have another operation on Tuesday. In the above picture you can see him in his new and even bigger cone. You

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Although we are posting this entry the first week of March 2011 we were actually in Elkhart, Indiana the first week of October 2010. Elkhart, Indiana is known as “the RV Capital of the World” because so many RVs are made in the area. More than half of all the RVs on the road were made in Elkhart or near by Goshen including ours. Since we would be going through Elkhart as we headed west on I-80

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Raider in his “walking” collar Raider goes back to the Vet on Monday for a checkup. He has to wear the "cone" all of the time or he will use his foot to scratch the stitches on the back of his ear. He is not very happy. With the cone on he walks into things, he can't jump on to his couch or our bed and can't play with his chew toys. We won't know until Monday when the stitches will come out or

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American Falls with Horseshoe Falls in the background. Although we are posting this entry the fourth week of February 2011 we were actually at Niagara Falls the last week of September 2010. I doubt there is a more recognizable natural landmark in the eastern half of North America than Niagara Falls.  We have all seen countless pictures of Niagara Falls, but just as with the Grand Canyon or

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Oh, NO! I am a “cone dog” again! Kathy Wrote today’s entry: Monday Raider had to have the hematoma on his left ear repaired via laser surgery and 20 stitches. Poor guy, he's just filling in his coat from December's surgery and now the left side of his head is shaved! At least the vet didn't touch his Mohawk! Hematoma was caused by scratching his ear too hard due to fleas! That

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You can see by the above pictures why this area is called Red Rock Canyon. According to the Bureau of Land Management Web page for Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. “The unique geologic features, plants and animals of Red Rock Canyon NCA represent some of the best examples of the Mojave Desert.” It is located 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip, contains 195,819 acres, is visited

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It is so hard to ghost write the blog when I have writer's block!

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Boldt Castle on Heart Island Although we are posting this entry the second week of February 2011 we were actually in the Thousand Island area of New York the third week of September 2010. Prior to our visit to upstate New York the only Thousand Island I had ever heard of was the salad dressing. However, while we were visiting our friends Jim and Janet in Vermont they said “While you are in

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Where is that Global warming when you need it? Admittedly compared to most other places in the US over the past week it hasn’t been very cold here but, it has been cold enough. As the above picture shows Raider needed a blanket  in the morning as we waited for the heater to warm up the trailer. We had three days of very windy weather followed by three days of what we consider very cold

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Kilroy was here. We have no idea why Raider decided he needed to hide behind the pillows in the above picture but that is where we found him. The only exciting thing for us this week is that we had to have the windshield of the truck replaced. I guess when you consider how many miles we have covered and the places we have driven we were lucky that the original windshield lasted as long as it

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Is this getting me any closer to being feed? Below are a few of the spectacular Pahrump sunsets: As I wrote in the year end summary posting, one of our goals for 2011 is to travel less and stay in one place longer. Although we will miss seeing our Montana Owner friends, we have decided not to attend the big Quartzsite gathering this year. We have really settled in here at the Escapee

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Raider’s footprints in the snow We left last week’s blog entry with: “We are sitting in the Acton KOA and tomorrow we will be heading out to continue our adventures. ”. Our drive on Monday was on a beautiful clear day, with light traffic but a persistent headwind that really killed our mileage. We have returned to the Escapees Pair-a-dice Co-op RV Park in Pahrump Nevada. This is our 5th visit

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Yes, I still need to finish the 2010 Travelogue blog entries but haven’t got back to them yet. However, while sorting through the pictures for the next blog entry I realized that I had not used my poor neglected camera since the first week of October! How did I go from hundreds of pictures a day to no pictures for 3 months? There is an axiom in photography that the more pictures you take the

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I wrote last year in my end of the year posting: “I will admit I have been a little remiss in blog writing lately, so I will make keeping the blog more current my 2010 New Year’s resolution. Now all of you can see how well I do at keeping New Year resolutions. ” Well, as we all now know I did even worse in 2010 than I did in 2009 at: “keeping the blog more current”. I was never able to keep the

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Although we are posting this blog entry the third week of December, we were actually in Vermont the second week of September. It has been a very hectic month since our last blog posting. The blog is now three months behind real time and that makes it very hard to remember what we did and what we saw. Kathy's Aunt Eileen and Uncle Pete live in Williston, VT, right near Burlington. Since there

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Although we are posting this blog entry the second week of November, we were actually in New Hampshire the first week of September. The sign says it all: 231 MILES PER HOUR As we well know non-retired RVers and campers really look forward to the three big three-day weekends of Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day. As we used to do, many make their plans and reservations months in

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Although we are posting this blog entry the second week of November, we actually returned to Maine the third week of August. Penobscot River going through downtown Bangor, Maine. After a wonderful six weeks in the Canadian Maritimes  we returned to Maine and the Pumpkin Patch RV Resort. We had stayed there over the 4th of July weekend prior to going into Canada and returned because it is a very

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Although we are posting this blog entry the first week of November, we were actually at Hopewell Rocks the second week of August. Looking down on Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick After leaving Prince Edward Island and returning to New Brunswick we stopped for a few days to visit Hopewell Rocks. Located on the Bay of Fundy, Hopewell Rocks is undoubtedly New Brunswick’s most famous landmark. At

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First hint of Anne of Green Gables on one of the shops Although we are posting this blog entry the 3rd week of October, we were actually on Prince Edward Island at the first week of August. Today’s blog entry was written by Kathy: Continuing our summer journey to the Atlantic Provinces, we headed towards Prince Edward Island. Located off the northeast coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

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It has been 3 weeks since our last blog entry and the blog is now more than 2 months behind “real time”. We still have to post pictures of our time in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, our return to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York’s Thousand Island area on the St. Lawrence river and our visit to Niagara Falls. However, to answer the question “Where are you?” Since I  last wrote we

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Although we are writing this in late September we were actually drove the Cabot Trail in late July. Written by Kathy: We enjoyed our trip so much to this jewel of the Atlantic Provinces, known as Nova Scotia. Staying near North Sydney we could do day trips to various places, such as Louisbourg, the Alexander Graham Bell museum, and best of all, Cape Breton Highlands National Park! I can

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  Inside Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada at Baddeck, Nova Scotia Although I am writing this in late September we were actually at Baddeck in late July. Cape Breton Island is the northern most portion of Nova Scotia. We had been in this area briefly as part of a Birding Tour back in 2006 and wanted to return when we could travel and visit on our own schedule. One of the

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First Glimpse of the Louisbourg Fortress Although I am writing this in late September we were actually at Louisbourg in late July. Cape Breton Island is the northern most portion of Nova Scotia. We had been in this area briefly as part of a Birding Tour back in 2006 and wanted to return when we could travel and visit on our own schedule. First on the list of places we wanted to visit was the

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It has been 3 weeks since our last blog entry and the blog is now 8 weeks behind “real time”. How did that happen? I don’t really know. We still have to post pictures of our time in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and our return to Maine. However, to answer the question “Where are you?” Since I  last wrote we have been to New Hampshire and Mount Washington. Vermont for a

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Located about 30 miles (in Canada it’s 45 kilometers) southwest of Halifax is the village of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. It is so postcard picture perfect,like walking through a Disney movie set. The “Halifax Visitor Guide” describes Peggy’s Cove: “Peggy’s Cover is a place of great rugged beauty, hewn by the forces of nature. Dominated by its famous lighthouse, this tiny fishing

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Serene and still waterfront. Theodore the Tugboat After leaving St. Martins we moved on to the area around Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax is a large city and the capital of Nova Scotia. It was founded in the mid-1600s as a British presence in what was then mostly French Canada. Due to its great natural harbor it became the primary base for the English Royal Navy and remains a major port. Port

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The blog is currently about 7 weeks behind “real time”. How did that happen? We have had a remarkable run of nice weather, have seen some magnificent areas and taken 100s of pictures. I guess our excuse is that we have been to busy too blog, download and edit pictures. We still have to post pictures of our time in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and our return to Maine. However,

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Vista Point along the Fundy Trail Parkway, notice the "chocolate" Fundy Bay From St. Andrews we moved further up the coast to St. Martins. It is a town even smaller than St. Andrews as it only has a hardware store that sells gas and diesel fuel. There is no grocery store. Our campsite wasn’t quite as close to the  ocean as it was at St. Andrews. Here at St. Martins along the Bay of

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The view of Passamaquoddy Bay outside our back window at St. Andrews, New Brunswick We crossed the border at Calais, Maine a few days after the 4th of July and went to St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Line up to cross the border into New Brunswick, Canada First sign of Canada while crossing the St.Croix River bridge from Calais, Maine St. Andrews is a very small town it has one gas station

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View from the top of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park Acadia National Park is the oldest National Park east of the Mississippi River, established in 1919.  Cadillac Mountain shown above is the highest point on the Island and has great views in all directions. View of Bar Harbor Village from the top of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park A shoreline "Cottage" on Mount Desert

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Pemaquid Lighthouse Maine has 3,300 miles of sea shore because of all of the coves it has, so it has 61 lighthouses! A Docent told us that only 12 can be reached by road. There are so many little islands that it’s hard to tell whether the land is a peninsula or an island! And there aren’t too many sandy beaches to be found. The rocky coast is made up of huge granite slabs extending out into the

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  Meeting Chelle in Bedford, PA Kathy here to be your tour guide! Leaving Washington, DC we headed for Pennsylvania for a visit with Grant’s mother, who lives in Johnstown, for two weeks. The closest RV park we could find was in Somerset, PA about 30 miles away, at Pioneer Park Campground. We had found that there aren’t too many campgrounds in Pennsylvania and this was a very popular one!

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Did you know that the stone in the Washington Monument is two different colors?   Just a note: this entry was WHILE we were in Washington, DC back in May! It appears we have confused some of our readers! The Cherry Hill RV Park has a “dog walking” service available. For a small fee a person will come to your RV and give your pet two “potty breaks” and a 20 minute walk while you see the

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The Spirit of St Louis Our next destination was Washington DC; neither of us had every been there and we were really looking forward to our first visit. We stayed at the Cherry Hill RV Park in College Park, Maryland. They really cater to tourist wanting to see the sites of Washington. They start with a daily session on how to use public transit to get around Washington. They provide detailed

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The third site in Williamsburg’s Historic Triangle is Yorktown Battlefield National Park, the site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War. This day we had the best weather of all of our time in the south. It was mid-70s, wind blowing in off of Chesapeake Bay and no humidity. Although, the finally treaty wouldn’t be signed for almost two years after this battle. The September, 1781

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  The Governor's Palace In October of 1698 the Capitol Building in Jamestown burned down and in 1699 the Capitol was moved to land next to the College of William and Mary. The new town was named Williamsburg in honor King William III. Williamsburg remained the Capitol until 1780, when the Capital of Virginia was moved to Richmond. After the Capitol moved to Richmond, Williamsburg was pretty 

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  All three of us are doing well and we are currently in Maine. The blog is getting way behind. We have been to Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown National Park, spend a week touring Washington DC, two weeks visiting my mother in Western Pennsylvania, and then a brief stop in Connecticut to visit Kathy’s Internet Chatty Cyber Chick friend Bette. We will update the blog when we can.

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Jamestown was established on May 13, 1607 making it the first permanent  English settlement in North America and of course, the first settlement in what would become the United States. Historic Jamestown is the National Park that protects this site. To quote the National Park brochure: “Jamestown, a place of many Beginnings Come, walk in the steps of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas as

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An interesting bridge just outside Jacksonville, Florida Upon leaving St. Augustine we took a couple of days to drive to Fayetteville, North Carolina for more visiting. Kathy’s nephew Stephen is currently stationed at Fort Bragg after his tour of duty in Iraq. This is the first time we have seen him since he returned from Iraq and it was good to see him looking so well. We had a nice dinner

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    Castillo de San Marcos After leaving Disney World and Kissimmee, Florida we turned north. After all we only have about 5 months to get to New England for leaf season. We also wanted to have some non-driving days to relax. On my list of “must see places” in Florida was St. Augustine:  “Founded in 1565, it is the oldest continuously occupied European established city, and the oldest port, in

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Today’s blog written by Kathy: Let’s see, we last were in Beaumont, Texas. On Monday we drove through Louisiana and stayed the night in Baton Rouge. I couldn’t get over all of the thick forests along I-10! I guess I expected swamps and places like in the “Blue Bayou” of Disneyland! People had warned us that the roads were the worse in Louisiana, but they must have fixed most of them! There was

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We have been doing a lot of visiting and traveling in the past two weeks covering about 1,200 miles . There was so much to see and do around Fredericksburg that it is going to take some time to sort through the pictures and write about what we saw. However, the blog is getting too far behind so we are going to skip over our first 10 days in Fredericksburg and write up that story when we have

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Almost three weeks since our last blog! All I can say we have been busy. We spent 10 days in Fredericksburg, Texas. What a great area to explore and I started a blog about it weeks ago, but we have been too busy to get back to it. Hopefully, I can complete is soon. After Fredericksburg we went to Kerrville, Texas only about 20 miles south of here to attend the Montana Owner’s National

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  Caverns of Sonora After two months in Arizona and one more storm, on a perfect day we left Benson, headed east on I-10 to Deming, New Mexico. I had once heard Deming described as a “windy desert town” and that pretty much sums it up. While in Deming 2 years ago we stayed at the Escapee’s Dream Catcher RV Park, because Escapee Parks are always friendly and cheap we stayed there again.

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After three weeks at Diamond J RV Park in Tucson it was time to move on. Our next stop would be Benson, Arizona, a trip of about 50 miles. As we were hitching-up the trailer we could see very dark clouds in the west heading our way. It was just starting  to rain as we were pulling out of the RV Park. Since Benson is almost due east of Tucson we had no problem staying ahead of the rain, but

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Top of the TITIAN II missile and the Mark 6 warhead  WOW, almost a month since we had a blog entry and Kathy did that one; I am REALLY getting bad about this! I’ll see what I can remember of our adventures over the past 4 weeks. After our last posting we had some more rainy days and some very nice days. Every day that the weather would allow we would  take Raider “the desert dog” out for a

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    Today’s blog written by Kathy After getting all of the groceries and laundry done in Casa Grande, AZ we headed down to one of our favorite spots in the state: Tucson! We were here back in February, 2008 and learned of a unique RV Park west of the city called Justin's Diamond J RV Park. It is run by Doc Justin and his wife Christine. They prefer not to make reservations, in fact their

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  Outside the MOC Circle on a nice day near Quartzsite, Arizona. The big news at Quartzsite this year was an actual Tornado Warning on Thursday of the Big Tent RV Show! It was the first ever tornado warning that Kathy and I have ever been in! The problem, of course, is that there were no structures to take shelter in out on the desert. We all road out the winds (said to be 75 mph) and rain in

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Montana Owners Circle Quartzsite Arizona 2010 Last year I wrote “Every January it turns into a RV Woodstock! Quartzsite is a very small town surrounded by miles of BLM land that offers free, no hookup camping on the desert. Each year during the third week in January there is a big RV show in here. Along with the 6 permanent “flea” markets there is nothing for an RV that you can’t find in

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Snow capped San Grogornio Mountain to the west of our location, at 11,503 feet it is the highest peak in Southern California. Everyone has heard about Palm Springs. They have endless golf courses, gated communities and very expensive shopping. We however have been at an RV Park in North Palms Springs! This isn’t even a town! It is an unincorporated area that has a a post office and a very

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I will admit I have been a little remiss in blog writing lately, so I will make keeping the blog more current my 2010 New Year resolution. Now all of you can see how well I do at keeping New Year resolutions.  To bring you up to date. Our visit to San Jose was packed with visits with family, friends between the doctor visits. After all of the doctors, dentist and Vet visits we are all three

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  Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View WOW, a month since our last posting! To pickup where our last blog left off: We stayed two more weeks at the Escapee Park in Pahrump. Kathy beaded everyday, I read and Raider got in his two walks a day. Although, the weather stayed nice the nights kept getting colder and colder. As planned we left Pahrump on November 18th and had a dull, uneventful two day

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  Our current site at Escapee CO-OP Pair-a-dice RV Park After spending 3 weeks at Zion National Park it was time to move on; the weather was getting colder and the winds were getting stronger. We even added a couple of days to our stay hoping that the winds would die down. Where to go became the question. We had planned to move to a RV Park in Hurricane Utah to meet up with friends from our

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During our almost three week  stay here at Zion National Park we have seen: Bugs Birds and Flowers. But mostly we have watched Autumn come to Zion. On our many trips into Zion Canyon we have seen the tress change from  day to day. The slideshow has a collection of the flora and fauna of Zion National Park we have seen and the changes during our wonderful visit.

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Looking down canyon The Emerald Pools are a series of small pools, cascades and waterfalls located about midway up the Zion Canyon. The trail begins at the Zion Lodge and the hikes to the 3 pool become more strenuous as you go to the next higher pool. The Kayenta Trail starts further up canyon and traverse a bench about 150 feet above the Virgin Rover and gives nice views until it connects to

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Entrance to the “Narrows” Kathy on the River Walk trail At the end of the road in Zion Canyon is the Temple of Sinawava. Sinawava is a deity to the South Paiute native Americans that lived in Zion Canyon before the area was homesteaded in the mid-1800s. This area is also the trailhead for Zion’s most popular hike the Zion Narrows. The first mile of the trail is paved and named the River

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The Altar of Sacrifice The only other time I had been to Zion National Park was in 1972, for part of an afternoon. Kathy was here on a family vacation trip back in 1965. Needless to say neither one of us remembered the park very well. Zion National Park is smaller than either of us had remembered and Zion Canyon is much smaller than we thought. In 1999 Zion National Park had a number of

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Bryce Canyon We continue our stay at Zion National Park and are sorting the hundreds of pictures we have taken. Unfortunately, every time we return to the park we take even more pictures. So, I am going to hold off on our Zion National Park blog until we leave Zion and write today about our daytrip to Bryce Canyon National Park. Bryce Canyon National Park is 90 miles from Zion National

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Catching Up Wow, two and half weeks since we last updated the blog! What have we been doing? Hiking mostly here in Zion National Park, but more on that later. In this blog I will try to bring you up to date on how we got here and our day trip to Bryce Canyon National Park. The day after our last blog posting the National Weather Service posted a Winter Storm Warning for Idaho, Montana and

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After our two weeks in West Yellowstone we moved 22 miles west to the Red Rock RV Park near Island Park, Idaho. To call Island Park a town seems like a misnomer; it is a 20 mile long strip of land on Highway US 20. It has gas stations, RV Parks and various lodges spread out over 20 miles. The nearest grocery store or anything else is back  in West Yellowstone. Red Rock RV Park is 5 miles off

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  Old Faithful Geyser More than a week since the last blog posting again. Our excuses are we stayed at a full hookup RV Park in West Yellowstone, but went into the park everyday to take pictures, due to road construction closures the already long distance between places in the park were even longer! Since we were both taking hundreds of pictures everyday it has taken us quite a while to

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Today’s blog entry was written by Kathy. Our next destination was Grand Teton National Park for 6 days. Even though this is our third time to Grand Teton National Park, I just love seeing those wonderful jagged peaks soaring into the Wyoming sky!! The trip from the Mt. Rushmore area was beautiful through the Black Hills. However, you come out on to this very arid plain that goes for

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Our site at Rafter J RV Park While visiting all of the great sites around Mt. Rushmore we stayed at Rafter J RV Park. This RV Park has 200 sites spread over 160 acres. We have never had a site as large as the one you see in the picture above. It was also very quiet and had free WIFI. Another thing that Rafter J had was BIRDS! Just sitting at our campsite we would see both adult and juvenal

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Jewel Cave formations Jewel Cave was designated a National Monument in 1908 to protect what was then thought to be a small but beautiful cave. Today cavers have mapped over 140 miles of passages making Jewel Cave the second biggest cave in the world. Using the volume of air that comes out of the cave scientist estimate that Jewel Cave has over 3,000 miles of undiscovered and so far uncharted

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South Dakota’s Hidden Treasures are truly hidden underground. They are Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument. As I wrote before “Everyone comes to the Black Hills to see Mt. Rushmore or maybe the Crazy Horse Memorial. No one comes to or even knows about Custer State Park until they arrive in the Black Hills.” Even less people seem to know about Wind Cave National Park and

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Yearling Pronghorns Custer State Park must be South Dakota’s “Best Kept Secret”! Everyone comes to the Black Hills to see Mt. Rushmore or maybe the Crazy Horse Memorial. No one comes to or even knows about Custer State Park until they arrive in the Black Hills. As their Web Site says “Custer State Park in the Black Hills encompasses 71,000 acres of spectacular terrain and an abundance of

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About 8 miles south of Mt. Rushmore is the Crazy Horse Memorial. The two projects couldn’t be more different. Back in the 1920’s as the discussion and work on Mt. Rushmore began, the Lakota Indians (then know as the Sioux Indians) were outraged that their scared Black Hills would be defaced. In the non-politically correct days of the 1920’s, no one really cared what the Indians thought. In

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    Mount Rushmore is as iconic an American place as I can think of. Three million people each year make a pilgrimage to the South Dakota Black Hills to see the carved faces for themselves. It truly is one of those places that you have to see for yourself to get an idea of just how big this carved mountain is. Each head is 60 feet high, but reading that and looking at the pictures just

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We have had on going problems with the front jacks on our trailer. These are the big jacks that support, lower and raise the trailer when ever we hitch or unhitch from the truck. (See our posting of September 2008 titled “Prince George, British Columbia” about our gear problem last year.) We have tried every suggestion we have gotten from other RVers, but these solutions only work for a

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The South Dakota Badlands are certainly more dramatic than the North Dakota Badlands! After leaving the Andersen Farm we went Mitchell, South Dakota for a couple of days. It was time once again for groceries and laundry. This is the first time we have been to South Dakota, we have now added a new state to our “STATES WE HAVE VISITED SINCE WE BECAME FULLTIMERS” map at the bottom of the left

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Today’s blog entry was written by Kathy: We have both enjoyed a web cam in Fairbanks, AK for years. It is called the Arctic Cam. Here is the link: http://www.newsminer.com/arcticcam/ In fact, we posed for the camera ourselves when we were up there last July! People from all over the country and the world check the cam, which is at the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer building. While up there I

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Shortly after leaving Billings, Montana we turned on to I-94, it runs from Billings through the bottom half of North Dakota and then onto Minneapolis. It is the least travelled interstate we have ever been on. Very few cars and even fewer trucks. Towns and gas stations are few and far between. I actually think there is more traffic on the Alaska Highway than I-94. Not long after crossing into

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TWO WEEKS WITH OUT A BLOG UPDATE!!!! How did that happen? Partly because we have had very slow Internet connections and partly due to being busy. Our last few days in Glacier were mostly just relaxing and getting  ready to move on. We loved our time at St. Mary and the eastern side of Glacier National Park. On our drive to Great Falls, Montana we found a road that was a little longer, but

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Our destinations for today’s hike were St. Mary Falls and Virginia Falls. Virginia Falls seen from the trail at the beginning of the hike. The trailhead is along the Going-to-the-Sun Road near the head of St Mary Lake. The first part of the hike descends through a dense forest to the St. Mary River. Yes, there are BEARS in the area and yes we do carry our bear spray! The trail

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Our destination for today’s hike Grinnell Lake For July 20th we picked the hike to Grinnell Lake in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park as our hike of the day. This hike begins at the Many Glacier Hotel. Like all of the Grand Hotels in the western national parks Many Glacier Hotel was built by a railroad. The Great Northern Railroad had the hotel built between 1914 and 1917

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