Category Archives: RV Travel

A Day in Los Angeles

We are NOT big city people.  For us to enjoy Los Angeles, one of the largest most sprawling cities in the world is most unlikely.  Yet we like visiting LA.  We have visited 4 times since 2012.  Most recently our … Continue reading

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Pinnacles National Park

Pinnacles is the newest national park in the US.  It was created by an act of congress in 2013.  It was set aside as a national monument in 1908 by Theodore Roosevelt making it one of the oldest monuments.  Reaching … Continue reading

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Oregon

We first visited Oregon in the Fall of 2007 and promised we’d be back.  With so much of the coast dedicated to public access we knew we wanted to return in better weather.  There is a lot to see in … Continue reading

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Crater Lake

Crater Lake National Park has been on our bucket list for a long time.  Each year when we would consider going there it was either too early in the summer or too late in the fall.  You see there is … Continue reading

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Fall in the Pacific Northwest

September seems to be everyone’s favorite month in the Pacific Northwest.  The 90 degree days are gone, the kids are back in school and the daily rain has not arrived just yet.  We start thinking its time to start south … Continue reading

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Trains of the Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest has a long history of trains.  Several major railroads had transcontinental lines terminating in Washington state including Great Northern, Northern Pacific and The Milwaukee Road.  As almost anywhere in the US, growth of the region was spurred … Continue reading

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Summer in Western Washington

Other than our month in the Canadian Rockies, we planned on spending our summer in and around the Seattle area.  Our son and his family planned on buying a home and we wanted to help.  They bought a home in … Continue reading

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Trains of the Canadian Rockies

While not our prime reason to go north to the Canadian Rockies, trains turned out to be a big part of the story.  Canadian National and Canadian Pacific operate transcontinental lines thru the rockies.  The Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger train … Continue reading

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Canadian Rockies Tour – Jasper

Our Canadian Rockies tour continued from Banff up the Icefields Parkway to Jasper National Park.  The parkway way was beautiful although our visibility was limited due to low clouds and blowing snow!  Yes, in late June we had snow flurries … Continue reading

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Canadian Rockies Tour – Kootenay and Banff National Parks

The Canadian Rockies have been on our bucket list for some time.  Many RVers include Banff and Jasper on their Alaska itinerary but we chose to make it a separate trip to give us more time in this beautiful area. … Continue reading

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