6/25/25 - We had to leave the RV at 6:30am to check in for our 7:30am ferry from Grand Portage, MN, to Isle Royale, MI. Voyageur II Ferry...

6/22/25 - A scenic, but uneventful drive from Java, South Dakota, to Peaceful Valley Campground (it was!) about 1 hour south of...

6/18 to 22 - Several of the friends we have made in Arizona are from the tiny town of Java, South Dakota. They celebrated the town's...

6/13/25 - On our way out of Custer, SD, we got a nice view of the Crazy Horse monument. The tower crane we learned about last summer is...

6/8/25 - After talking with somebody in Idaho, we decided to take a north-then-east route versus reversing our path through Wyoming. We...

6/5/25 - After a lazy morning, we drove about 30 minutes to the site of the Teton Dam (and the namesake for our "Dam" half marathon). ...

6/1/25 - Up at 4:30am for a 6:00am start (YIKES!) for our half marathon in Wyoming, our 30th state. The motto: Following the herd We...

5/29/25 - We finished packing things into the RV and hit the road around 9:30am. My mom came over to watch the final preparations and...

We had such a great time in our RV last summer (3.5 months touring many National Parks and visiting California to Wisconsin) that we are...

9/16/24 - We had an uneventful trip south and arrived home late afternoon. The house was in good shape (thanks Jerry and Sally!) and...

9/13/24 - We drove about 3 hours from Bryce Canyon, UT, to Page, Arizona. We arrived pretty early so Pat had time to get "The Beast"...

9/9/24 - We only had to drive about 3 hours from the Capitol Reef area to the Bryce Canyon area (both in Utah). We checked into Ruby's...

9/5/24 - We drove about 3 hours from Arches / Canyonlands area (near Moab, Utah) to Capitol Reef National Park area (near the small town...

9/3/24 - Grocery shopping, another successful mountain-bike ride on the trails north of Moab, and a dip in the RV resort pool and hot tub...

8/30/24 - I went on a 16-mile bike ride on the paved trail leaving Moab. Besides that, we didn't do much!! 8/31/24 - I had us signed up...

8/27/24 - We saw beautiful scenery driving further west through the Rocky Mountains and Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, and along the...

8/21/24 – Shortly after we left Brady, NE, we stopped in North Platte, Nebraska, to see the world’s largest train classification yard. ...

8/18/24 – On the way across Iowa, we visited the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa.  We learned a lot about his...

8/10/24 – After breakfast cooked by Ed on the outdoor griddle, Joyce, Ed, Pat, and I played two games of pickleball in the “shed” before...

8/5/24 – On this day we stopped at Wall Drug on our way east to Pierre, the capital of S. Dakota.  We arrived at our RV park by the...