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Day 123: Pennsylvania (Part 1)
Day 123 (10/1/14): Gettysburg, PA Today marks the 4th month of our journey! While in Pennsylvania, we have several different places we want to see. Yesterday was Hershey, today is Gettysburg, and tomorrow will be Philadelphia. We tried to stay somewhere central to all of our PA destinations, but...
Days 113-114: Maine (Part 2)
Day 113 (9/21/14): Bar Harbor, ME | Acadia National Park | Kennebunkport, ME Our alarm was set for 4:45am this morning. When it began beeping, we laid in bed for 10 minutes debating whether or not to actually get out of bed. We had planned on waking up while it was still dark outside to watch the...
Day 112: Maine (Part 1)
Day 112 (9/20/14): Bar Harbor, ME | Acadia National Park Throughout our travels, we'd met numerous people who raved about Acadia National Park, and National Parks have been some of our favorite places to visit on our RV trip. Thinking about taking an RV to check out some National Parks? You can...
Days 109-111: New York, Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine
Day 109 (9/17/14): Grand Island, NY | White River Junction, VT The drive through Upstate New York was pleasant (other than the additional tolls). Our next destination is Vermont. Shortly before reaching the state line, we passed through the quaint New York town of Saratoga Springs. Our route took...
Days 87-89: Tennessee (Part 2)
Day 87 (8/26/14): Nashville, TN | Sevierville, TN Some days on the road just aren't that eventful. The most exciting thing about today was finding cheap gas. Haha! As we headed east through Tennessee from Nashville to Sevierville, we stopped for gas outside of Baxter, TN and were happy to discover...
Days 81-83: Kentucky & Tennessee
Day 81 (8/20/14): Louisville, KY Even though we had driven through Louisville (pronounced "Lul-vul" in the South) when we first entered Kentucky, we didn't actually see much of the city. We decided to go back to Louisville today to get a better look at the downtown area. Our first impression...
Days 69-72: Wyoming & South Dakota
Day 69 (8/8/14): Dubois, WY | Spearfish, SD It has been a life-long dream of Justin's to go to the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD. Since this is a once-in-a-lifetime trip, we were determined to make Justin's dream a reality! We left Wyoming today and headed to South Dakota to catch the...
Days 65-68: Montana & Wyoming
Day 65 (8/4/14): Missoula, MT | Dubois, WY We left Montana this morning and started driving to Wyoming, passing the Madison River on the way. Our route took us through Yellowstone National Park, which begins right on the border of Wyoming. To my dismay, there was no "Welcome to Wyoming" sign to...
Days 61-64: Washington, Idaho & Montana
Day 61 (7/31/14): Anacortes, WA | Spokane, WA Time to start heading east. We began making our way over to Spokane, WA, Justin's old (short-lived) stomping grounds. Justin had lived in Spokane for a few months about 10 years ago, and since we'd be passing through, he wanted to show me around. On...
Days 53-56: Oregon (Part 4)
Day 53 (7/23/14): Portland, OR | Vancouver, WA It was still raining today, but I was feeling better and wasn’t going to let the rain get in my way. I was determined to get some donuts! For those of you who know me, you’re aware that I have a slight infatuation with donuts. Okay, okay… truth be...
Days 46-47: Oregon (Part 1)
Day 46 (7/16/14): Crater Lake National Park Being in Oregon, we had to see the deepest lake in the United States: Crater Lake! We left our campground on the coast at 10:30am thinking it would take us maybe 3 hours at the most to drive the 183 miles to the lake, but it ended up taking 3.75 hours to...
Day 23: Utah (Part 5)
Day 23 (6/23/14): Timpanogos Cave National Monument | Salt Lake City, UT I broke out my electric griddle this morning and made a hearty breakfast of pancakes and turkey bacon. We were going to be doing a long hike later in the day, and I didn't want us to get hungry in the middle of it. Our hike...
Day 17: Colorado & Utah
Day 17 (6/17/14): Gypsum, CO | Moab, UT We headed out of Colorado today and were happy to be leaving the mosquito-infested campground in Gypsum, CO. Our next destination was Utah to see Arches National Park. We checked into our campground in Moab about 10 miles from Arches, dropped the trailer and...
Days 1-3: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas & Oklahoma
The past few days have been spent doing A LOT of driving. We're focused on getting to Michigan to pick up our RV and have to stay in hotels in the meantime while en route. Therefore, we're trying to get to Michigan sooner rather than later, so we don't have to live out of suitcases for too long....
