August 3 – 6, 2015 Dry Camping Like most national parks, North Cascades has campgrounds, but they don’t have RV hookups. Luckily, the Newhalem Campground did have sites large enough for our 5th wheel, just barely. We had reserved a…
Ben, Big Guns, and Ferries on Whidbey Island
July 31 – August 3, 2015 Third time’s a charm. We had our third stop at a Les Schwab Tire in the last month to repair a tire as we were headed from Seattle to Whidbey Island. I always check…
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Cramming Seattle in a Day
July 29-31, 2015 Seattle is really a fun city. There is so much to do there, but we only had one full day to explore, so we tried to hit as many of the major highlights as we could cram…
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Mount Rainier
July 27-29, 2015 Washington is the third state we’ve visited since starting our long trip at the end of April. Our first stop–Mount Rainier! There is a nice little campground just a few miles west of the Mount Rainier National…
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Portland and the End of the Oregon Trail
July 18-27, 2015 After spending time exploring the beautiful Oregon Coast, we headed inland toward Portland. We stayed at Clackamette Park in Oregon City, the first U.S. city west of the Rockies and the end of the Oregon Trail. Our…
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The Oregon Coast – Reedsport to Astoria
July 9 – 18, 2015 Oregon Highway 138 from the Crater Lake area to Reedsport is one of the best scenic drives we’ve taken. This route is known as the “Highway of Waterfalls”. It winds through the pine forests along…
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Crater Lake
July 2 – 9, 2015 Crater Lake is really that color. Yes, look at the photos. It looks like they’ve been enhanced, but no, Crater Lake is really that color of blue. It is even more stunning in person. Crater…
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Lassen Volcanic National Park
June 28 – July 2, 2015 This was a busy few days. After leaving Fort Bragg, CA, we drove for a couple hours through the mountains and pine forests to reach Clear Lake, California. It is the largest natural lake…
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The Biggest, Bestest, Smallest, Mostest
It seems as though with every new place we visit, there is often a “most this” or “biggest that”. This post is a running list of the Biggest, Bestest, Smallest, Mostest and other superlative places we’ve visited on our journey.…
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Lessons Learned After 2 Months On The Road
So we’ve been doing this full-timing thing for just over two months now. Is it everything we expected? In some ways. We have lived in 19 different RV parks, visited 4 national parks, fished and swam at 11 beaches, lakes,…
