We have one of those maps stuck to the side of our camper. I’m sure you’ve seen them before. The kind where we add a sticker for every state we’ve visited. After five years of crisscrossing the continuous United States and gradually filling in our map, a gap remains: three prominent states at the top … Continue reading Our First Trip to Michigan
Travel Day While making the trek from Silver Springs Campground in Stow, Ohio, to Potato Creek State Park in north central Indiana, our tire pressure monitoring system’s alarm started blaring like a baby wanting a bottle. One of the trailer tires was deflating faster than I could shout, “Oh $@&t!” I pulled into the first … Continue reading Adventures in North Indiana
Ever feel like you’ve hit a brick wall? After the past few days, that’s exactly how Grammi and I felt about the five or six-hour drive to our next destination. Emotionally spent and facing the daunting task of towing our travel trailer with an untested repair, we lingered until noon before coming up with a … Continue reading Cuyahoga Valley National Park
In our previous blogpost, Grammi and I were in West Virginia exploring the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. I ended that post while we were hiking the Rim Trail in the Grandview area. If you have not yet read that post, I urge you to do so by clicking the link here. I … Continue reading Cliffside Amphitheater and Sandstone Falls
Our trip around the northwestern United States has been highlighted with visits to all the National Parks in that part of the country with one exception — Grand Teton National Park. Grand Teton is only ten minutes from Yellowstone National Park’s south gate. We were at Yellowstone National Park a couple months ago, but did … Continue reading Grand Teton National Park
Ever since I first heard the name Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, it has been a place of wonderment and intrigue. As a young boy in the 1960‘s, I was fascinated with our country’s space race to the Moon. From the moment my mother lugged our only black and white television into … Continue reading Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Towering to a height of 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainer stands as an iconic symbol of the Pacific Northwest. The majestic snow covered mountain has twenty-five named glaciers — the most of any peak in the continental United States. It is a place where rivers begin, wildlife thrive, and summer wildflowers light up … Continue reading Mount Rainer National Park
The Adventures of Grammi and Grampa 