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Although it doesn't look like much from the exterior, our visit to Roadside America Miniature Village near Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, truly was a visit into wonderland. This magical place is so much more than one miniature village, it's a vast collection of...
Today was a good day for just hunkering down and waiting out the storm. We felt bad for folks who'd been looking forward to their Labor Day Weekend camping trip only to have it turn soggy but for us it was a good day to work on computer based projects, get laundry...
This morning we were breaking camp and heading into Gettysburg for a ranger talk so we postponed our traditional September 1st breakfast. Now the 400 is parked alongside Swatara Creek on Site 40 at the Jonestown/Hershey KOA for a three night Labor Day weekend stay and...
This morning we broke camp and pulled the trailer into Gettysburg and along Confederate Avenue. First we stopped at an artillery position and spent some time chatting with a Confederate costumed interpreter before heading to the Gouverneur Warren monument on Little...
The oldest house in Gettysburg, Dobbin House was built in 1776. It's as old as the Declaration of Independence. Today it is Dobbin House Tavern where one can enjoy fine dining in candlelit elegance. Beth served us a sumptuous prime rib dinner at Table 44 in the...
Gettysburg National Military Park was a stop on our American Bicentennial vacation (a year early) in 1975 and our American Presidents and Civil War Battlefields trip in 2009. So this time when we arrived at the Information Desk, we knew we wanted something other than...
Granite Hill Camping Resort is just a few miles outside Gettysburg and we're on Site 35 off in a corner all by ourselves for the next two nights before the Labor Day weekend begins, the last big camping weekend at the end of summer. Tonight is grill night. We brought...
National Park Videos Lower Town Harper's Ferry is incredibly rich in history. Many of us know that it's where John Brown took a stand in the years leading up to the Civil War but not so much of the rest of the incredibly rich history of this place. Since the time...
Wow! What a wealth of information we walked into when we stopped by the Harper's Ferry Visitors Center. Yesterday we came by in the afternoon to learn the ropes and get some basic information before riding the shuttle to Lower Town. We stopped in afterwards to ask a...
The Harper's Ferry KOA is located on Bolivar Heights, the place at Harper's Ferry that saw more action than any other during the Civil War is immediately adjacent to the Murphy Farm area of the national park property. It bears interpretive markers that may date back...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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In search of more information about the history of this area we visited the headquarter of the Missouri National Recreational River in Yankton, South Dakota and talked with a ranger. Following that conversation we headed half an hour east to Spirit Mound Historic...
Cottonwood Campground, a COE campground at the foot of Gavins Point Dam between Lewis & Clark Lake and Yankton Lake just a few miles from the town of Yankton in southeastern South Dakota is our home for three nights. It's just across the Missouri River from...
While we are here staying at the Mitchell KOA Journey in Mitchell, South Dakota over the Labor Day weekend, we conversed with several fellow travelers and learned that for most folks, this is just a quick stop along the way either on their way to or from Mount...