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Coast to Coast COVID
A two month excursion to a handful of National parks morphed into an 8 month cross-country COVID experience. From Congaree to the Great Smokey Mountains, we were shut out of an underground tour in Mammoth Cave then crying with a
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On the Road Again
Life at home had filled our lives such that waking up in the same place each day felt normal. Family, friends, holidays and special events had kept us wonderfully busy. With a long awaited, mid-February epic Birthday party in the
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Congaree(ly)
More than a Swamp Not all National Parks are created equal. There’s the Grand Canyon and then there’s a swamp in the middle of South Carolina. To be fair, the fact that there are 11,000 protected acres in the middle
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Newton Bald-faced Lie
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that bodies in motion tend to stay in motion and bodies at rest tend to stay at rest. If we have to be honest with ourselves, we binged a few too many streaming series
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Clingmans Dome All Alone
There’s no higher vista in Great Smoky Mountain National Park than Clingmans Dome. 6,643 feet. Motorists make a 7 mile, 1,600 foot elevation climb on a paved and winding road to summit parking, then hike 330 feet higher for 360
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Life on the road with waterfalls
We’re a bit early to experience Spring in the Smokies. Snowrain showers instead of wildflowers, closed roads and campgrounds, cold nights and warm-ish days make off-the-grid living a challenge when the sun is not quite ready to cooperate. Solar Required
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Smoky Mountain Spring
You don’t know what you don’t know until you know. We thought 8 days in the Smokies would be plenty. We thought Smoky Mountain Spring would be snow-free. We learned. Three campgrounds are open year round – Smokemont in the
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Social Distancing at Mammoth Cave
If you are a couple of RV’rs driving around the country, you may not have a clue as to what is going on in the day-to-day worlds of politics, economics or current events. Many days we don’t have the 110v
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Health & Happiness in Hot Springs, Arkansas
No Parade Today It was supposed to be Grand Marshalls Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo leading The World’s Shortest St Patricks Day Parade with musical guests Blues Traveler and Foghat of Smoke on the Water fame. Instead it was Brennan
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Gimme Shelter
What does it mean to shelter in place when your place is 30 feet of RV continually moving across the country? COVID-19 made us answer that question. Sure, we knew about the Coronavirus when we departed Maryland, but the DOW
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Barksdale National Park
Barksdale Air Force Base is home to a fleet of B-52 Stratofortress bombers. These B-52’s that fly over our heads each afternoon entered service in 1961 (before we were born) proving age is just a number. A movie star in
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Buying the Bayou
When the April camping cancellation email hit the inbox telling us Big Bend National Park is closed til May 11 it was time for Buying the Bayou. Camping cancelled We’d put it off as long as we could, starting with
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Gimme a Break
We’re so used to writing about bikes, hikes parks and attractions that it’s hard to write about shelter-in-place life when no adventuring is going on in our tiny existence other than streaming the new season of Ozark! Time killers Last
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Trust me, I watched a how-to YouTube video.
On the seventh anniversary of our Cherry Blossom wedding on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, we celebrated DIY – Louisiana style. Forget flowers and candy Copper and wool are the traditional gifts in this itchy year;
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Lake Harmon-y
It’s been 20 days since Sheri broke her fibula, which was 20 days of nothing more than hobbling to and from the bathhouse, around the commissary and out to sit in a chair on the fishing pier. Now we’re wearing
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What’s Cookin’
Dr. Cox took full credit for the decision not to plate the broken fibula. He said he sees new bone growth over the past 6-7 weeks and was quite pleased with himself and his advice to Louisiana boot. The break
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How the halloumi are you?
As people who are always on the do, stationary life has forced new lows on us and our blog has suffered in the process. We’re convinced there’s nothing to write about and our lives are very boring but real writers
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So, It’s Time to Go
Insights on our time during COVID-19 inspired by the works of Dr. Seuss Finally!We’re off to see glaciersAnd sights we’ve not seenFor in-person experiencesNot TV nor magazine We have $2 buck gas in the tankAnd burning desire in our heartsWe’ll
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Heartland Happy
Two days and 688 miles later, with Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri in the rear view mirror, we’re smack dab in the middle of the country in Hamburg, Iowa. It is small town America all the time. The only large population
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Wayne’s World @Porter Sculpture Park
An iron Bull Head as big as Teddy’s on Mt. Rushmore looms over I-90 in Montrose South Dakota, 20 miles west of Sioux Falls. We saw it last year, traveling from the Badlands en route to Minnesota. First you see
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Badlands Birthdays
We arrived at the Red Trail Vineyard in Buffalo, North Dakota just in time to catch owner Rodney for a tasting and storytelling session before he departed to Fargo for friends, ribs, and some Red Trail wine we imagine. Harvest
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TRNP News
(Medora, ND)In braking news today, drivers on the North Unit loop of Teddy Roosevelt National Park were gridlocked by herds of bison who have taken control of the roads in the absence of tourists. No park rangers were on site
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Wayfarers Landing
It’s been 24 hours of heavy rain here in Bigfork, Montana. They call it a Derecho – a big ass storm that’s long, wide and traveling. News reports say it may be the first in history to cross the continental
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Biking to the Sun Road Glacier
Glacier National Park is in Phase 1 re-opening and while we can’t get to a glacier or the East Side of the park, or most of the West Side or camp in any campgrounds or explore the visitor centers, we’re
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Scurry and Plod Attempt Mt Brown
On the second anniversary of walking out of corporate America, we saw no better way to commemorate the event than with walking up 4,325 vertical feet in 5.4 miles and back down again on a whim. TLDR: It didn’t end
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Glacier Gone Wild
With East Glacier National Park still closed and West Glacier attractions exhausted, we extended our footprint and made some wild discoveries. Hungry Horse At 564 feet high and 15 miles from West Glacier, Hungry Horse is Dam one of the
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Coulee-0
Nine out of the Top 10 hikes in Glacier National Park are on the covid-closed East side with no indication of opening. With an on-the-fly itinerary in play we narrowed our options … 200 miles south to Teton and Yellowstone,
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Eastern Washington’s Fablands
The Dakotas have their Badlands, we call New Mexico the Radlands and eastern Washingtons’ early settlers named theirs the Scablands, aka “not suitable for farming.” Coulee City crush We did not anticipate spending a long week here in the scablands.
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Northrup and the Vic in Scablands
Was there ever a time when the Grand Canyon was NOT a major tourist destination? We’ve been there a couple of times and it is awe-ways inspiring. It was also hard to find a parking, the trails were crowded and
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This Seat Is Saved in Coulee
The extensive list of rules for the Coulee City Campground are posted next to the computerized kiosk that accepts bills or credit cards for payment. Pick an empty spot. Park your rig. Pay for your spot. Once paid, you have
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