At the beginning of this summer travel season we intended to go on a trip throughout the south and swing back through the midwest. We mostly followed that plan with a slight modification. We went to Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee as planned. Then we took a bit of a detour. Back in […]
We spent three weeks in Pigeon Forge, right outside of the Great Smoky Mountains on the Tennessee side (the GSM are in Tennessee and North Carolina). We were unprepared for how touristy Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg were. Pigeon Forge is home of Dolly World which is an amusement park (think Six Flags or maybe even […]
On our way from New Orleans to the Great Smoky Mountains we drove through Alabama and stopped in Birmingham for a week. Around 40 miles outside of New Orleans we had a tire explode on the fifth-wheel driver/road side. Surprisingly our TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) did not alert us until after it blew. This […]
We were in New Orleans for three weeks. This is going to be a long post because we did a lot and took a lot of photos! One of the first touristy things we did was to take a swamp tour on an airboat. The group was “Ragin Cajun” and they operated in a private […]
When we were looking at traveling through Mississippi, there were several places we wanted to visit but we didn’t want to travel every weekend. We decided it made the most sense to camp in the middle of the state (well, North/South middle) and picked a spot to use as our jumping off point for travels […]
After leaving Oklahoma City early we headed to Little Rock Arkansas for the remainder of the week. Scott booked a lovely little RV park on the river, right across from the Clinton Presidential Library. We did not go in the library, though we did wander through the nearby “William E. Clark Presidential Park Wetlands” and […]
We bought our fifth-wheel used and have never gotten it professionally looked over. Unless you count after the hail, but that was different. Before our travels this year we decided to get a “platinum service” check-up this year to look over the electrical, plumbing, hot water, heating, A/C, tires, etc. We also had a list […]
The past two winters we’ve stayed on our Texas property we haven’t really seen much wildlife. We saw a dead jackrabbit and various scat the first year. Last year Scott thinks he saw bighorn sheep. This year we had a flowering plant, which folks on iNaturalist identified as a Havard’s Fiddleleaf and seems to be […]
It’s March and that means we will soon be off on our summer adventures! We’ve decided this year we are going to do a southern loop. We plan to hit nine new states (KA, MO, KY, TN, AL, MS, LA, AR, and OK) and four new national parks. First we are heading to Denton TX […]
We’ve had our property for three years now and have had two guests. Michael was our first ever; he helped Scott move us from the RV Park in Terlingua out to the property the first year while I was away on a work trip. This past week we hosted Michael again along with Eric, both […]
