Garden of the Gods At some point in Earth’s geological past, the land in Colorado was as flat as the Great Plains are in the east and a great inland sea ran through the middle of what is now the central

Capulin Volcano The Rocky Mountain formation begins in New Mexico, continues north into Colorado and up into Canada where it merges with the Alaska Range. However, many years ago, this land was not as mountainous as we see it today. If

Dorothy’s House and The Land of Oz When in Kansas, you can’t miss a visit to Dorothy’s house, right? Well, maybe this one you could. While the house itself seemed like a good replica and the tour was interesting, the rest

Strataca Salt Mine Who knew that there was a salt mine in the middle of Kansas?  Well, if you look at maps from the time of the dinosaurs, you would see that there was an inland ocean that once ran through

The 2024 Total Eclipse Upon hearing about the eclipse late last year, we decided to make a detour in our route to be in the path of totality for the 2024 eclipse. That detour took us to a little spot out

  Gathering Place Tulsa has one of the best city parks in the country, IMHO. Known simply as Gathering Place, it boasts a 5 acre adventure playground, that all ages can enjoy. Zip lines, climbing nets, water play, 3-story slides, mirror

Laura Ingalls Wilder The young Laura Ingalls Wilder was part of the last generation of Americans to experience frontier life as we read about in her books. Later in life, she saw children growing up in a more technologically fueled, urban

Crater of Diamonds State Park Deep in rural Arkansas, there’s a state park that allows visitors to bring their buckets, wagons, sifters, and shovels, and spend their day mining for diamonds. After paying an entrance fee to the park, any gems

We’re Texans now! Since we started this trip in summer 2022, we have been to the southern half and eastern half of the United States, comprising 39 out of 49 states we can travel to with the fifth wheel. (We can’t

RV Update Now that the outriggers were fixed, we turned our attention to another problem we’ve had on the back burner for a few months. One of the tracks to the bedroom slide had become bent. We had taken it in

  Rock City Gardens Rock City Gardens was a neat little spot made up of natural rock features and incorporated into a garden adventure/walking park.  I’m actually not quite sure how to describe this place. There were walkways with narrow slots

Outrigger Issues Continued from last week… When we got to Montgomery, we learned that the outrigger brackets we had ordered would take a week to be made and installed. During that week of waiting, the walls kept creaking and popping as

  You’ve probably noticed that you’re hearing a bit less from us these past few months. We have been keeping our adventures low key this winter as we are retracing part of our route on our way back west. These past

As cooler weather started to move south, we followed suit, settling on the warmest state in the winter, Florida.  Taking a quote from Home Alone 2: – Kevin: Why do we have to go to Florida? There’s no Christmas trees in

Tybee Island On our way up the east coast at the beginning of this year, our plan was to stop into Savannah, Georgia and visit Tybee Island. Unfortunately, the campground we had planned to stay at was booked, so that left

The Birthplace of Pepsi Inside a small pharmacy building on a corner lot sat a man diligently working on a secret recipe. In fact he had several versions of this recipe that he sold alongside medicines and healing ointments that he