After checking and rechecking the weather and being a little paranoid about ice and slippery roads,  we left Santa Fe and headed to Colorado.  We landed in Alamosa, the nearest town to Great Sand Dunes National Park.  We were rewarded with sunny skies and reasonably warm temps to explore the dunes, the park, and the surrounding area.  Our campsite was nothing special, but entirely surrounded by beautiful snow-capped mountains.  It…

While Sedona and Lake Mead are “repeats” of stops in the past, there are some places that are so beautiful that they cannot be resisted.  I could happily visit Sedona every year and never tire of its awesome views in every direction.  It is such a extraordinary combination of spectacular scenery, fantastic hiking, smallish-town charm, good restaurants and bars, unique artistic shops and who could forget the ever present “vortex”…

After our month-long stay in Yuma Arizona, Bill and I were ready to move on and see some new sights.  While the weather in Yuma was pretty spectacular and the amenities of our RV resort were wonderful, we were definitely itching to get back on the road.  We headed to Ramona, California, a smallish town nestled in the hills and mountains about an hour east of San Diego.  We scheduled…

We thought after Zion, that Bryce NP would be “just” another canyon with great vistas, but this was not the case. It was very different and quite mesmerizing with it’s hoodoos, multi-colored cliff sides, and natural arches. We arrived in early April thinking spring would be well in progress, but Bryce had 9 feet of snow in February alone and as you can see from the photos, there was lingering…

Over the last couple of years we met multiple RVers who raved about the beauty of Zion NP and encouraged us to make this a “must do” stop in the course of travels.   They were absolutely correct and we were not disappointed.  There are no words really to describe the beauty and stunning vistas of this park.  We spent a week just outside Zion NP, in Virgin UT, which was…

So… Bill dragged me kicking and screaming to our next stop…Vegas.  Wow!!  We were both amazed at the absolute beauty surrounding Las Vegas.  We were fortunate to be staying about 30 minutes outside of the city at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.  We stayed right in the park, which is hard to believe that there is a bonafide RV park within an area run by the National Park Service. …

We decided to take a break after 7 consecutive days of driving from northern California in Nashville, Tennessee.  And boy are we glad we did!  We had several fun-filled days and  realized Nashville is a really hopping town.  We ate delicious BBQ, took a lovely hike in the springtime woods and hills of TN, and listened to some live country western music in  downtown Nashville on Broadway street, with some…

We initially had made reservations for a week near Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon but since it was snowing and overly chilly, we elected to extend our stay in central California, specifically in the Salinas Valley.  We discovered the smallish but very cool Pinnacles National Park.  We spent a fair amount of time hiking on the trails and I even braved the “cave” sections of several trails.  Being slightly…