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One of the beloved features of Gigi II, our T@B-Clamshell, was the outdoor kitchen. It was a delight to just open up, have everything within easy reach and make a meal in the outdoors under the shelter of the hatch cover. It invited us outside and kept the heat and...
Crowded campgrounds! Especially in resort areas. We headed today for The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area with our eye on the Army Corps of Engineers Canal Campground near Grand Rivers KY. Of the 110 campsites here all 108 reservable sites are taken for...
If you visit Grand River's KY, it seems a visit tp Patti's 1880 Settlement is a must. We were warned we should make reservations but didn't. Turns out our wait wasn't too long. An online reservation though would have been quite easy to make. We also were warned about...
'Twas a totally gorgeous day on Rough River Lake. We enjoyed sitting in our chairs watching the light play on the water, boaters heading out for a day of fishing or other fun, and kayakers paddling by. Later in the afternoon we headed in the direction of Owensboro to...
After breakfasting on some of the amazing eggs we got at Saturday's farmers market, relaxing in camp a bit, hobnobbing with a fellow tiny trailer traveler, and breaking camp, we headed out in a southerly direction. We crossed the river at Brandenburg KY which...
We're at Fishing Creek Campground on Lake Cumberland near Somerset, Kentucky. It's one of the Army Corps of Engineers Campgrounds and Site 11 has water on three sides! We're set up and registered. Now it's time to pop into town to run a few errands and perhaps find a...
See Park Video The Cumberland Gap Tunnel on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee gave us the opportunity to travel under the storied Cumberland Gap today as part of a journey involving three states in about five minutes! We spent time at the Cumberland Gap Visitors...
We've scored a national park campsite with shade and electricity near a well-appointed shower house at the Senior Pass rate! It's the Wilderness Road Campground near Ewing, Virginia. It's at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park where the states of Kentucky,...
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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The Zulu make up a large portion of the South African population and have a culture all their own. Today we traveled from the Port of Durban on the east coast of Africa to the Valley of a Thousand Hills to learn a bit about their traditional lifestyle.
The island nation of Mauritius was unfamiliar to us before we started planning this trip but today we got a wonderful introduction to this volcanic island that’s been peopled for less than 400 years. We drove past sugar cane fields and tea plantations, visited a vanilla farm, and savored a delicious Mauritian lunch while soaking up all sorts of information about the geology, history, and economy of this tiny country.
A visit the the Hindu shrines in Batu Caves involving a climb of 272 steps into an immense limestone cavern and a pewtersmithing workshop at Royal Selangor the world’s largest producer of pewter ware were our two very different adventures near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia made for an incredible day on our first visit to this Southeastern Asian country.