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Meadows of Dan, VA
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We are looking forward to our second year of RV adventures, with 33 more states to visit.
To see a map of our first year of travels, click here.
To check out our exciting trip in Alaska in 2012, click here.
Year 2013 our current travels.
Year 2012 Travels
View Betsy’s 2012 Travels in a larger map
Awesome! We love the little motorhome “bus” icon.
Great, we like it too, hopefully it won’t be crowded in the long run.
I feel as though I have something in common with anyone who loves Oregon. I subscribed to your blog and look forward to reading about your travels.
Thanks, and we have one more stop along the Oregon coast and head up north.
Ack, I lost my comment. Jack and I spent a lot of time in this area. There’s more to it than meets the eye. Did you, by chance, see the Octopus Tree up by Cape Mears? We spent an entire afternoon watching the dory boats come sliding in to shore, and the kids sliding down the big dune. I won’t even talk about the ice dream!!! Best there is at Tillamook. Pacifichttp://travelswithmrnimble.blogspot.com/search?q=Pacific+City There’s a clip of a dory boat sliding in on my blog and a picture of the tree, if you care to look. Oh, I get so exciting just thinking about how alive I felt out there on the coast. My kids flew out to see my while I was there so I was glad that they got to see it, too. I stayed on a week or so longer to enjoy everything.
Thanks so much for sharing with me and your other readers. If you are headed north, there’s a good restaurant in Garibaldi (highly recommended by locals) but it was closed so I didn’t get to go. In Astoria, be sure to go to the tower. There were other places I loved in my travels in the country, but Oregon stole my heart. Have fun!
You are right, there is more to it than meets the eye… the oregon coast is just lovely. The camera and our eyes can’t capture all the beauty. We missed the Octopus tree as it started to rain again. I am now a follower of your blog as well. Thanks for sharing.
We.re enjoying your blog. It’s too bad you had troubles so early in your journey. But now that it’s resolved, you don’t have to worry about any others. Right? Right! Do you have plans to visiting the Olympic peninsula while in Washington? It’s very lay back and pretty. If you plan to go to Victoria, BC the shortest ferry distance is in Port Angeles.
I look forward to your next entry. Enjoy your travels, smell the flowers and be safe. Hugs…
Howdy, great to hear from you! We’re leaving the Mt. St. Helens area tomorrow, after extending our stay because we like the park and area so much. Our next 5 days will be on the outskirts of Seattle, then we’ll spend a week in Anacortes near Bellingham through the holiday weekend. Planning to enter Canada on the 30th! We’ll probably go to Victoria when we come back toward Washington in late September, which we will do to have some modifications done on the RV. We’ll tell you more about that later. Take care, and keep in touch!
Remember, the whales hang out at Lime Kiln Point on San Juan Island. Usually they are VERY close to shore. It sounds like it might be on your route. Stay safe, my friend.
Hey Mike, our next stop is Anacortes and we plan to be there for a week. We should have enough time to get out there around the islands. Take care and talk to you soon.
Very cool map! Love those icons. Nina
Oh Thanks, every entry is still an effort.
hello. . . am going with you.
Congrats, Steve and ML. Enjoy your stay in Fairbanks. The Chena Indian Village is a nice excursion.
We ate on a deck a bit upstream of the Discovery paddlewheeler, opposite bank. I don’t recall the name of the establishment. Nice setting but I think they served last years seafood.
Beware of the Seafood platter!
Hey Mike, you must be referring to the Pump House restaurant, where we had lunch before I saw your scary comment. You may have thought it was last year’s fish because it took them that long to get it to your table! Our food was actually pretty good but the service was very slow. We didn’t have to worry about the seafood though, they were out of the fish that ML wanted…
Mona Liza and Steve,
We had a blast having dinner with you at Glacier Brewpub. It was a real treat to meet up with you and swap stories of our RV travels. We are glad we met you on this journey and hope to run into you again. Keep in touch!
Roadlife
It was indeed a real treat having met the blogger of Roadlife that we had been following in Alaska. It was like meeting your penpal and it was exciting to meet in person. Great choice on the restaurant. We will be referring to your past blogs as we move on to the Kenai P. Thank you and hope to meet you again somewhere in the lower 48. Be safe.
-ML
Steve and ML, It was fun hiking with you this morning…. bear butt remeber. Enjoy all your travels and one day we will be able to travel for months like you guys. Don’t forget to send us that bear picture and the one with yiour expressions as well, that was so funny! Take care and have fun.
Kurt and Debbie
Hi Kurt, we tried sending you the pics but were all rejected.
We had a great time too! Just sent you our expression pic and bears !
Wow! Be careful out there. I’ve been told there are an abundance of bear and moose in the Kenai peninsula this year and we saw our share of them. They are pretty dangerous especially when their young are around. Mona Liza – good. Mona Liza for bear dinner- not so good!
RoadLife
Congratulation! It look like you made it. Del B.
Hi Del, we are hanging out in Homer today and finally have sunshine and a fantastic view of the mountains and glaciers across the water. We still have another 6 weeks to go in Alaska with lots more to see and do. Feel free to click on the “Follow Us” button at the upper-right of the home page if you want to be notified when we update. I hope things are going well for you and the guys there – keep in touch! ~Steve
Steve & Mona Liza,
Stumbled onto your blog from the Wheeling It blog and happy we did. We too started living fulltime in a Fleetwood Discovery 40G with our six children this past April 2012 and so far love it. We really wanted to get to Alaska this past spring & summer, but could not pull it off this year, so will shoot for visitin there next season. We will be sure to study your blog on your Alaska trip.
I’m also going to put a link to your blog on our blog of http://livelyrv.blogspot.com so others will find it.
Thanks!
Don & Misty Lively with their six kids.
We are having a great time full timing, our new lifestyle. Yes your whole family will love it in Alaska it would be a great experience for the kids. Let us know of any specific questions that you may have to things not mentioned in our blogs we will be happy to answer them. Thank you for linking us in your blog. We will include you too in our blog roll.
I love ideas like this, just getting up and going for it. The pioneer spirit lives on. I look forward to following your adventures.
Best of luck
Danny
Thanks, glad to have you riding with us on our adventure.
Looks like you are on quite the RV adventure. Thanks for the lovely photos and descriptions. We look forward to visiting Alaska and Canada as well. Looking forward to following along with the two of you.
I was doing this same idea with my boyfriend. We started from CO to rv all the way up to Alaska and ended up turning around in Canada about 5 months later for my brother’s wedding in the south. It’s such a great experience to live and travel in your rv. I really miss it so much and am happy you all are experiencing this journey as well! Enjoy your retirement!!
Its been great so far! I hope you will be able to go back to Canada and all the way to Alaska for we had a fantastic time there.
Glad you accomplished your trip and all went well!
Thanks and what happen to your blog?
Changed address and got my own domain…www.everydaylivingpnw.com
Steve and Mona Liza
It was a pleasure meeting you at Cattail Cove! If you are thru Bend Oregon be sure and look us up. Now is a good time to buy a home in Bend! Our prices are about 1/2 of what they were in 2006. Maybe we will meet in our travels again.
Best regards
Jim and Connie Johnson
It was indeed a pleasure meeting you.We have heard good things about Bend, OR. Good to know we have someone to refer in case we settle there or visit there.
I thought this was a blog about boon docking at LOWE’s instead of walmart. Glad I stumbled upon it!
Glad you found us and thanks for stopping by.
I am enjoying watching the different places you guys are running around to. I subscribed so I can pop in and take a look from time to time.
Hope you guys will take a trip to Wisconsin sometime. The northern territories are fantastic in summer and fall.
Thanks for riding with us. And yes Wisconsin is on the list. If not this year it will be in 2014.
I will be waiting patiently!
Great photos of both of you, JD and I loving it.
Thank you , Cuz. We will winter in FL this year.
We just pulled in to Traveler’s World and we happen to be next to Susan-Travel Bug. Haven’t met her yet, but she commented on my blog that we are next door. Would love to meet you also.j
Which site are you in? we are in 49 and are sitting outside.
Sorry I missed you last night. I opened the door twice thinking I heard knocking. You probably saw me sitting at my computer. I didn’t mean to ignore you. Spent the day with Susan/Travel Bug.
I also found your blog through Wheeling it blog site. Enjoyed your post on the bike trails and Sam Houston Jones State Park. I will continue to follow your RV adventures as we prepare to go full time in a couple of years. Thank you for helping keep the dream alive.
Great, glad to have you along.
In response to your question … active duty or retired military can camp in the FamCamps … some allow DoD as well, I think. If you qualify, drop me an email (available from my profile) and I can send you a link where you can check out the available campgrounds.
Thank you Erin, unfortunately neither one of us are/were from the military so we cant camp there
aw!! Chuck will be jealous. He so wants to do the girl watching thing! HAH! We’ll be heading to Galveston island the end of next week to catch some beach time too. Can’t wait for fresh seafood!