It was time to drive across the Florida panhandle from Topsail Hill Preserve State Park to Sopchoppy. We love to take the back roads to see the real America so off we went north on the non-toll bridge in Santa Rosa over the Choctawatchee Bay and on to Highway 20
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Topsail Hill Preserve State Park – Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
We departed Rocky Bayou State Park and headed south over the Mid Bay Bridge to Destin and then east to Santa Rosa Beach using our SunPass to cross the bridge. With the RV and the tow car it was $12. It was a clear sunny day with beautiful views of
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We departed Mississippi and headed into Alabama and on through the beautiful city of Mobile!! About 30 minutes east of Mobile long I-10 is the wonderful Buc-ee’s. Buc-ee’s is a chain of country stores and gas stations that originated in Texas in 1982 and is spreading throughout the country with
Continue readingVillage Creek State Park – Lumberton, Texas
We drove from Austin to Lumberton and took backroads the whole way. We will do anything to avoid Houston and to allow us to see the great Texas countryside. And boy, are we glad we did. It was a long drive but it was terrific. It was a pretty windy
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Pedernales Falls State Park is approximately 40 miles east of Fredricksburg and about 12 miles east of Johnson City. Fredricksburg is in the heart of Texas hill country and is a quaint, charming, German town full of shops, restaurants with German cuisine, and over 50 wineries. It is definitely worth
Continue readingCoos Bay, Oregon – Out and About
Coos Bay (previously known as Marshfield) has a history with lumber and shipbuilding and is the largest city on the Oregon coast with a population of over 16,000. There are a variety of activities and state parks in the area that kept us busy for days and days! Coos City
Continue readingCatalina State Park – Tucson, Arizona
Our journey to Catalina State Park took us through downtown Phoenix and on past the Angels spring training stadium in Tempe as we headed south to Catalina State Park in Tucson. The state park is located in Oro Valley which is in the northern part of Tucson at the
Continue readingA Year in Review 2020
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The Wave Lottery Hike – Utah and Arizona
Yes, we won! We won the lottery to hike The Wave! For those of you who are not familiar with The Wave, it is an area in northern Arizona that is so popular that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls access to the area using a lottery system. For
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