Tag Archives: full-time RV
A Michigan Summer, Part Two – August 2017
After our trip to Mackinac Island, we returned to the family cottage on Rifle Lake. While Dave and Elisabeth enjoyed the day with the twins, Pat and I drove to Detroit Wayne County Airport to pick up our other granddaughter, … Continue reading
Exploring the Thousand Islands, June 2017
The fastest route from Vermont to Michigan is through Canada. We had an option to travel straight north through Montreal or to go west through New York and cross farther down the St. Lawrence River. We chose to do the … Continue reading
Burlington, VT – Where Ethan Allen is More Than a Furniture Store, June 2017
Hurray! Vermont was state #50, Fifty states in six years. This didn’t start as a goal but it does feel good to have filled in the map. As we planned our route into Vermont we discovered that we would be … Continue reading
Have You Ever Seen the Old Man of the Mountain? – Franconia Notch State Park, NH, May 2017
This spring our plan was to complete our goal to camp in all 50 states. That is what brought us to New Hampshire and Franconia Notch State Park. Franconia Notch is a scenic mountain pass, traversed by a parkway winding … Continue reading
The Mystic Seaport of Connecticut and the Mansions of Newport, RI, May 2017
Our next goal was to camp in Connecticut and Rhode Island to check them off our list of states in which we hadn’t camped yet. We chose to stay at the Seaport RV Park in Connecticut without really knowing what … Continue reading
Exploring Bethany Beach, DE – May 2017
I’ve crossed a lot of bridges in my time, big ones, little ones, high ones, and low ones. This trip we crossed, what I would consider, the mother of all bridges – the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The bridge-tunnel connects Norfolk … Continue reading
Hiking, Kayaking and Visiting the Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford, May 2017
We left the Raleigh area on May 1st and began our journey back to Michigan through New England. When we began our life as full-time RVers we never planned to visited every one of the 50 states. However, last year … Continue reading
Rain, Rain, and More Rain – Raleigh, NC – April 2017
We returned to Falls Lake as Camp Hosts in April. For most of our time there the weather was beautiful and we enjoyed ourselves by visiting with our daughter, Elisabeth. While we were serving as Camp Hosts at the Falls … Continue reading



