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Welcome to our refreshed blog site!

When we retired in 2012, we documented and shared our adventures as we traveled and explored our beautiful country for eight years while living full-time in an RV we named Betsy. This was how our blog site was born. We then sold our beloved “house on wheels” and have taken root in a sticks-and-bricks home in Arizona. Since then, our travel goals have been focused on seeing what’s out there in the rest of this big world. We’re now exploring as many countries as we can while we still can!

Our RV Travels

By September of 2016 we had achieved our goal of exploring all 49 states (Betsy can’t do Hawaii!).  In Canada we wandered through 8 provinces and 1 territory (Yukon), and in Mexico we headed across Sonora twice for extended beach parties.  We’ve traveled through 6 time zones and crossed the borders between the U.S, Canada and Mexico 30 times.  That was one heck of an adventure!

Our Interactive RV Map…
Click on the above image to see all of our 2012-2019 RV travels in uMap.  The pins in the resulting display can be selected to access Steve’s campground reviews and other information.

Below are links to our travels by individual year:
Aqua       – 2012 West coast
Brown     – 2012 Alaska
Blue        – 2013 East coast
Purple    – 2013 Canadian Maritimes
Green     – 2014 route
Red         – 2015 route
Orange   – 2016 route
Pink        – 2017 route
Black      – 2018 route
Lime      –  2019 route

Our world travel map so far…

Most Recent Travel Tales

Here are a few snippets of our adventures.

  • Some fishy facts about dip netting in Alaska

    Some fishy facts about dip netting in Alaska

    After a few days in Homer, we back-tracked on the Sterling Highway and went up north to Kenai, the largest and the oldest city on the Kenai Peninsula . This was a “lazy stop,” since we had been in this area before and didn’t need to explore much.  The…

  • Fun on the spit, Homer Spit that is…

    Homer is at the “end of the road”  of the Sterling Highway in the Kenai Peninsula.  And Homer Spit is a 5-mile long narrow finger of land jutting into Kachemak Bay and that’s where our RV park is located.  We have heard good reviews of Homer from locals and…

  • Halibut and Razor Clams in Ninilchik – yum, yum!

    Halibut and Razor Clams in Ninilchik – yum, yum!

    Ninilchik,  meaning  “peaceful settlement  by the river ” was our next stop on the Kenai Peninsula.  This town has a rich Russian influence dating back to the early 19th century.  A Russian Orthodox Church was built in 1901, and the historic cemetery on the hill continues to overlook the rustic village…

  • Feeling Crazy? Let’s hike Angels Landing! – Zion NP

    Angels Landing Trail Despite over 10 miles of hiking we did the previous day from the Weeping Rock shuttle stop, we were energized to tackle the most popular strenuous trail in Zion, Angels Landing. Once again we caught the first shuttle at 7:00am, but this time about a dozen other…

  • Canadian Rockies the second time around!

    Canadian Rockies the second time around!

    Aug 1-8 When you love a place with stunning scenery that brings unforgettable memories, you may wish to revisit and experience that joy again. We don’t normally do “repeats” because there’s so much more of the world for us to see. But we recently made exceptions by traveling around…

  • Banff National Park – Banff, AB, Canada

    Banff National Park – Banff, AB, Canada

    After being spoiled and indulged aboard the Rocky Mountaineer, we disembarked at our final destination, Banff, a busy town within Banff National Park.  We didn’t bring Betsy here, planning instead to stop at Lake Louise later to meet up with friends.  So instead we extended our stay to three nights and rented…

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