So, Jeremy is not used to having to worry about getting sunburned in Ireland, haha! He’s borrowing my Aloe Vera and sunscreen now, since there’s lots more days of sunshine forecasted — yay! We drove another couple of hours to get to Slieve League, where we did a 5km hike Read more…
It took longer than expected at the RV Shop (about 3 hours!) because we noticed the new refrigerator was really wobbly when the slide out was in; so they had to try to brace it better. It was starting to get dark when we arrived and by the time we Read more…
We stayed three nights at Cumberland Mountain State Park, to give us a day to enjoy the park and a day to go out looking at homes. At the park, we hiked a little over 2 miles on the Byrd Lake and Pioneer Short Loop trails. It was super pretty, Read more…
We got off the coast and drove inland a bit to camp at Suwannee River State Park. This was the first campground that we had trouble fitting into the site. It was an older campground with smaller sites and lots of trees. We tried backing in from both directions and Read more…
We finally got to Louisiana and stopped for one night at Sam Houston Jones State Park in Lake Charles. Once we got settled in, we decided to hike the 1.6 miles Riverwalk Trail since the trailhead was just down the road from the RV. The trees were so thick and Read more…
We stayed in Cortez, CO for four nights at our first Boondockers Welcome site. It was a great experience with hosts (Mack and Kay McInnes) that went above and beyond to make us feel welcome! When we mentioned to Kay that we were heading to Albuquerque for the Balloon Fiesta, Read more…
After getting suggestions from the Visitor Center, we rode the Gondola up and over to Mountain Village. We walked around there for a while, then got off the Gondola at the peak and found a spot with awesome views to sit and eat our picnic lunch before heading back to Read more…
Wow! It’s hard to describe how beautiful this park is! We stayed in the South Rim Campground for one night in order to spend some time in The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. As we were setting up, the friendly campground host pulled up in his golf cart Read more…
We drove further west on Hwy 50 to the Elk Creek Campground in Curecanti National Recreation Area, near Gunnison. We really got into the “great outdoors” spirit of things here, so there’s a lot to talk about. There were a couple of unfortunate reminders for us on this leg of Read more…