Tuesday, November 7, 2017 The day was spent driving to our hotel in Alpine, Texas where we rested. When we reached the hotel I put my visor up and saw that there was an 8″ crack in the windshield. Damn. Before heading out to dinner I called USAA Insurance and arranged to have the windshield…
Category: Skies
Death Valley National Park
Sunday, October 15, 2017 We arrived in Death Valley in the early afternoon and set up camp in Furnace Creek Campground. Once again we were camping in a national park (yay). This campground was nicer, if more sparse of trees, and quieter than Yosemite. After picking up a map (and pin) at the Visitor Center, which…
Salt Lake City, Utah
Friday, October 6, 2017 Got up and out early. Neither of us got a good night’s sleep because of new neighbors with a whiny whimpering child that went off every 2 hours, on alternate hours their little dog yapped. Yes, I’m grumpy today. The upside was that it was my brother’s 75th birthday and we…
Saskachewan
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Wednesday, August 16th we decamped and drove all day to Prince Albert National Park. Along the way the oil change reminder light came on, so we stopped at a Great Canadian Oil Change station. Those guys do it right! They have two bays, each with a pit underneath. There is no…
Nova Scotia, Canada
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 We got an early start for our long drive to Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia. This trip we were going to be able to camp in the park, a first for us. On the way we stopped at a camera store so that I could purchase a new lens cap…