Utah! And Three More National Parks

On Wednesday, May 18 we left Wyoming and headed to Utah. We arrived in Provo on Wednesday afternoon and planned on staying at the Elks Lodge. They have 5 full hookup spots and 3 dry camping spots, we thought we’d be fine, but got there to find out all sites were occupied. Luckily, they have […]

Wyoming and Yellowstone

We left South Dakota on May 11 and drove as far as Buffalo, Wyoming. There isn’t much to say about Buffalo and we didn’t even unhook the trailer from the truck. We got up early the next day and drove to Cody, Wyoming. On the way to Cody, we needed to cross into the Rocky […]

On To South Dakota

After saying good-bye to family, we packed up and headed to South Dakota. I can say this much about the state that has less than 1,000,000 people living there, they have a vast amount of open land, and it is VERY windy. We stopped for Saturday night in Mitchell. We set up the trailer and […]

Minnesota and More Cousins

Tom also has cousins living in Minnesota, and that is where Tom and his brothers were born, so on Monday, May 2 we travelled from Iowa to Minnesota to continue seeing family. Mankato is only a about 150 miles away, so it wasn’t a long drive. We stayed at a cute campground called “The Sawmill”. […]

Iowa and the Pentico Cousins

On Wednesday, April 27, we left Lawrence, KS and drove through Missouri to Des Moines, Iowa. The Kansas Turnpike is also a toll road, but this time we ready for it! One of the 5 Iowa Pentico cousins, Lynn, lives in Norwalk a suburb of Des Moines and since Tom and I had never seen […]

Denison, Tx to Tulsa, OK to Lawrence, KS

After leaving Denison Texas on Monday, Aril 25, 2022 we had three back-to-back travel days. These are tough days as we spend 5-6 hours in the truck. We stop to stretch and take a bathroom break, but other than that we stay on the road. While driving to Tulsa, we realized we were on a […]

Amarillo To Denison, Texas

We left Amarillo at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 21 as it was going to be a long drive to Denison. We made the 356-mile drive in about 6 hours, after stopping at a truck stop to stretch and have a bathroom break. Our reservations are at the Eisenhower State Park in Denison, which is […]

Albuquerque to Amarillo

As exciting as our trip to Albuquerque was, our trip to Amarillo was uneventful! We stopped overnight in Amarillo on April 20, 2022, one thing we found was that Texas has a unique (for us) way for giving addresses. The RV Park we stayed at was off I-40 on a frontage road, and although the […]

Lake Havasu to show low, az to Albuquerque, NM

After spending the night in Lake Havasu, we began the trip on Interstate 40 to the town of Show Low, which is in Northern Arizona. The story goes that the town was named back in the 1870s and as they were attempting to name the town, one person said, “If you can show low, you […]

Our midwest trip begins

We left home on Friday, April 15 for a six-week adventure! Our plan is to go from California across the southern part of the country and up to Iowa and Minnesota to visit cousins. We’ll then start our “National Park Tour” including Badlands, Yellowstone, Zion and Arches, we’ll finish up in Pahrump, Nevada with Tom […]