tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9469302950064047022012-01-25T11:15:40.675-08:00RV'ING FOR WORK & PLAY IN THE WILD WILD WESTSheila and Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937302176633505128noreply@blogger.comBlogger1401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946930295006404702.post-4498836311182615762012-01-25T11:15:00.000-08:002012-01-25T11:15:40.690-08:00

It does not matter what foreign country you may travel in, the church is often the heart of the city or the village that you visit and will be a point of interest worth seeing.  We have seen many on our travels and some of them are absolutely amazing but the Sacre-Coeur Basilica is one that will stand out in my mind forever. Basilique du Sacre-Coeur in Montmartre, Paris, France

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We are loving our time in Paris and eager to see as much as possible in our four days in Paris, France.  We have enjoyed the mode of transport on the double decker tour buses and how easy we can get from one area to another.  Today we have chosen to visit Montmartre, a designated historic district north of downtown Paris.  The Moulin Rouge in Paris, France The Moulin Rouge, opened in

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We love rv'ing but winter travels can be treacherous in typical winter conditions.  Our options to travel south from Kamloops, BC include a few different routes but due to the recent snowfall warning for the Coquihalla Highway, we chose to travel through the Fraser Canyon.  It had been several years since we'd used the route, especially during the winter but the road conditions sounded

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We love rv'ing and have travelled many different roads during every season of the year.  During winter months, weather conditions must be considered in order to decide the best route to take and on this trip we decided that the best road conditions appear to be through the Fraser Canyon. This is such a scenic drive and we haven't traveled this section of the Trans Canada Highway for a long

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It was a sight to behold and got better as we drew nearer. We were riding on the top level of one of the many double decker tour buses in Paris for a bird's eye view and as we travelled down the Champs Elysees.  We had so many sights to see but the one incredible sight at the end of the street that was spellbinding was the Arc de Triomphe. It is hard to capture all the beautiful features of

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We have found, even on our RV travels that when we visit a new city, a tour bus can be the best way to learn our way around and hear a lot of the history.   We usually stay on for all of the bus tour to see and then decide where we are going back to.  It is nice to have the tour guide information, whether it is with a guide or the prerecorded audio system that many of them are using now. Views

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We love RVing, so our typical holidays have been driving across Canada and the US for most of our travels but not this time. We have now left our RV at home and are doing some global travels so we will share our visit to Paris, France with you. We are in Paris, France We arrived by train from England having travelled under the English Channel and across some beautiful French countryside to

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Our travels of England took us all over the south and we saw some beautiful scenery and historical places that we had only read about, but none were as old or as mysterious as the stone circle of Stonehenge.  There are many questions about how Stonehenge came to be that may never be answered but the interest is obvious by the many visitors who come to see it every day.  The birds fly over

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Our travels in England have not included an RV but we've been enjoying some lovely travels and our wonderful trip continues.We set out from Tavistock to spend our sunny day visiting some of the medieval villages on the northern coast of Cornwall. We drove across the moorlands and began our descent down to the fishing village of Boscastle. So many of these villages we were visiting are at the

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We planned our day in London around a visit to Buckingham Palace.  This was a 'must see' on our trip and I was looking forward to seeing the Queen's home in all its' splendor.  Our tickets were purchased online ahead of time, which is a very easy thing to do and likely saved us time when we arrived as we didn't have to stand in line.  Part of the ticket entrance included visiting the Royal Mews,

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We spent several weeks in England with my sister and brother-in-law and we could not have asked for better hosts, company or tour guides! We spent most of our time touring and seeing the sights of southern England, making several photo-taking stops every day. There were so many sights to see and they were making sure that we could see as many of them as possible but still leaving many for a

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Another glorious day in London, England.  We walked for so many miles and still didn't see everything, but what we did see made it an incredible day.  Part of another London walk included several other sights that you may see by clicking here, but today we will see even more. This walk begins at St. Paul's Cathedral, the most beautiful cathedral that we had been looking forward to seeing on this

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Our visit to England included two day-trips to London to see the sights. We walked all around the city both days and saw so much that it is difficult to know where to begin. I decided to take you on some walking tours, although it may be out of sequence, but you will be able to see some of the incredible sights we were to see. Perhaps one day I will feature some of these for a full page of their

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The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England is a royal home like no other. It began as a simple farmhouse that George IV first stayed in when he visited the area in 1783. He liked Brighton so much that he created a neo-classical villa, the Marine Pavilion which is still part of the complex. Once he became Prince Regent, he began to add on and by 1822, after he became king, it became what is the

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Our travels continue in England and today we are travelling south to Brighton on the southern coast. We drove through some beautiful countryside and small typical English villages getting out of the car on several occassions to enjoy it all. Our first stop of the day was in Lindfield. Lindfield, England  Lindfield was voted the "Best kept village in all Sussex" and still seems to maintain that

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We love rv’ing but we left the RV behind and spent several weeks visiting and sightseeing in England, Paris, Venice, Rome and Greece. The sights we saw are nothing like home and the culture changes were amazing.   We began our travels in England.We had never been there before so it was all new… perhaps 'new' is a bad choice of words…..it is amazing how old some of these castles, stately homes and

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We arrived in San Francisco, CA to visit friends who live in the city and to spend the day sightseeing. We were excited to be able to have that time with them and get an inside look of the city that we’d not seen for many years. Cable car in San Francisco, CA The one thing that we’d never done on previous visits to San Francisco was ride the cable car and we were about to get that and even

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The Chinese people in Kamloops once represented over one third of the population of the town before it was incorporated to the City of Kamloops. They had come to Canada to build the Canadian Pacific Railway and for some, with dreams of building a future here for their families they'd left back in China. For many that dream did not materialize. Once the railway was completed, some settled in

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We’d spent the day driving from Creston, BC and then sightseeing the Frank slide and the Lundbreck Falls with Karen's cousin and friends. Once we'd seen these great falls we went into Pincher Creek to the restaurant to have dinner before calling it a day. We planned on staying here overnite before going onto Radium, BC the following day. But plans change………. Lifesize if not bigger The road

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Sometimes the unexpected turns out to be the greatest surprise.  We had travelled through southern Alberta with very few plans other than to see the sights.  This was a region I had never seen before and was looking forward to visit all we could, but the one location that we hadn't even planned on was the one that left the greatest impact.  We had dinner with a cousin and friends who asked if we

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We were RV’ing in the Verde Valley on our way to see the Grand Canyon when we parked at Camp Verde RV Resort as our base to visit some interesting places in the area.  One of those special visits was at Montezuma Well, just a few miles up I-17 and north of Camp Verde.  There is no charge to visit this national park at this time and we drove there after visiting Montezuma Castle, another special

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Desert View is located in the Grand Canyon, 52 km (32 mi) from the Grand Canyon Village and wherever there was a location to see the canyon from between these two locations, a viewpoint has been built.  We made a stop at every single one of those viewpoints and none were disappointing!  The views were similar yet different, colors and terrain varied and some showed more variety in formation than

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We entered the Grand Canyon National Park for our sunset experience from Tusayan, AZ where we were staying in the RV park. The Grand Canyon Camper Village is only a couple of miles from the park entrance. We’ve purchased a pass for the park, at a cost of $25 and that will allow us to enter the park any number of times for a week. The South Entrance Road to the Grand Canyon We then drive for a

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Sedona, AZ is a beautiful little town, nestled in the northern part of Verde Valley at the mouth of the Oak Creek Canyon. We’d been there many years ago and had spent a couple of days looking through art galleries and shops during a winter visit, enjoying the beautiful views but we hoped to see it again. Majestic red rock in Red Rock State Park, AZ Now all these years later we are making

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We had visited Montezuma Castle many years ago and I was excited to see it again so I could take some pictures to share on the blog, seems I didn't take enough pictures back then.  My biggest incentive these days is sharing this way, and I can never have enough pictures!  As we approached the parking lot, I realized that either my memory had failed me or things had changed, I’m going to go with

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There are many places we have on our list to visit and the Grand Canyon was one of them.  We love rv’ing to these locations so that we can enjoy the journey on the way, which we did, but there was no way that I was quite prepared for the sight we saw on our arrival to the Grand Canyon. Afternoon sun cast shadows in Grand CanyonWe have all seen pictures, heard stories and likely even seen parts of

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We have visited the First Tee golf course in Palm Desert, California many times and enjoy this 9 hole course for a fun golfing day.  For those of us who have limited golfing skills but enjoy the experience without the pressure of a big course, this is the one.  And for those with better skills, the course still has its’ challenges with ponds and sand traps. The First Tee Golf Course ~ Palm Desert

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The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in La Connor, Washington is an incredible explosion of color in the local fields of the valley. This isn’t just a display of tulips in vases set out to view, this is fields of tulips of color that goes on forever! It is a delight to see and enjoy. Washington Windmill The Skagit Valley shows a lot of Dutch influence with many windmills in this area. I don’t think

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Old Town Temecula, California is a neat old town that we’d been told we should visit by several people who had been there. It has a collection of historic buildings that house boutiques, antiques and collectible shops that are fun to visit. We're going to follow the scenic State highways 74 and 371 to get there rather than the freeways, we make an early start and away we go! Old Town Temecula,

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Some days are just chock full of travel treasures but we just don’t have time to see it all!  We had one of those days when we planned a day visit to Temecula to visit friends involved in the car show there. I will share more of that on another blog page but on that same day, we decided that if we drove back another way, we would also be able to visit Idyllwild, CA.  Idyllwild,

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We had spent most of the day enjoying the car show in Temecula, CA before we drove up into the San Jacinto Mountains to have a look at Idyllwild on our way back home to Palm Springs.  The drive on the windy mountain roads of State Highway 74 had us taking some great switchbacks and because the traffic isn’t heavy along this part of the road, it allows you time to enjoy the view.  State highway 74

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We love rv’ing for lots of different reasons. We get to see the country, we get to visit old friends and make new ones and we also get to stay in different parks on these travels. We have stayed in so many that I couldn’t possibly remember every one of them but there are some that just would not be forgotten.  RV'ing in Cathedral City, CAThere is one RV park that we have stayed in for extended

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Most weekday mornings our television will have the Live with Regis and Kelly show on. They keep us informed in a fun and entertaining way while we begin our day. Today they ended their show with an update from Dean Karnazes, who is making a Run Across America… and. he was passing by Indio, CA. That is all I needed to hear! The morning plans were put on hold and we jumped into the truck to go

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The San Jacinto Mountain Range made a great backdrop for our drive down to Borrego Springs, located in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park an hour or so from Palm Springs, CA.  We’d taken this trip before but hadn’t time to see all that we wanted so we were on our way again.  We followed I-10 to S86 and stayed on that road passing the Salton Sea until we reached S22, which took us west into the

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We love to see everything there is to see in the neighborhood where we are rv’ing.  Even if we think there might be nothing special to see, it is always great to be a tourist and enjoy what there is.  Sometimes we are just so lucky to find the unexpected.    Wild horses in Borrego Springs, CAI had wanted to go to Borrego Springs for awhile after having seen a local TV show about some metal

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We love rv’ing to places that have treasures that we wouldn’t otherwise see. Tucson, AZ offers some of those and we enjoyed visiting them during our stay there. The San Xavier Mission del Bac (pronounced “hauv-e- air”) is just one of those treasures. It is referred to as the White Dove of the Desert and is the spirit of Spanish Mission history. Bac is ‘where a stream emerges’ which is no longer

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We love rv’ing but I will admit that it is the fair-weather part of rv’ing that we prefer.  This means that for the winter months, the best rv’ing is farther south than our homeland in Canada.  This years rv’ing journey took us to Arizona and we made a stop at Pinnacle Peak, just north of Mesa in the Phoenix area.   Pinnacle Peak Patio, Phoenix, AZPinnacle Peak was a general store and rest stop

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The Living Desert in Palm Desert, CA was established in 1970 by some of the trustees of the Palm Springs Desert Museum. They had the foresight to understand the impact that resort development would have on the desert ecosystem and set out to preserve, conserve and interpret the desert with all its’ varied plants and animal life.  The Living Desert represents North America as well as Africa with

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Today is Elvis’ 76th birthday.  The fact is that he was born 76 years ago today but he isn’t here to celebrate that so we won’t think of him as 76 years old. We remember him as the beautiful Elvis in his prime years before his untimely death.   Front entrance to Elvis' Honeymoon HouseThe classic modern architecture house was built by the Alexander Construction Company, and is one of 2200 homes

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We love rv’ing and it gives us many opportunities to see so many wonderful places and adventures that we might not otherwise have.  Sometimes it is just great to park in one place for awhile and enjoy those places that you might not even know about by just passing by.  The Coachella Valley is one of those wonderful places full of treasures. The sign to welcome us to La Quinta, CaliforniaLa

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Osoyoos, BC, Canada was originally called ‘Souyoos’ which translates as “the narrow waterway where the land almost meets” and is the southern most town of the Okanagan Valley, just 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the US border. Native artwork of the Osoyoos Indian Band, BC Excavations in Osoyoos show that the aboriginal people have lived here for thousands of years, harvesting the resources of the land.

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Gold was once a part of the growth of the Okanagan valley before it came to be known as it is today. Although it was first discovered in 1869, it took almost 20 years before the first gold mining claims were registered in 1887 on both sides of the valley above what is now called Oliver. By the turn of the century, Fairview was one of BC’s largest towns with a population of 600 and was located on

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We love RVing for many reasons.  We are able to have a new adventure wherever we may go and that may happen anytime of year.  A visit to the Okanagan Valley is southern BC holds a multitude of treats for the tastebuds most of the year from the vineyards and orchards but the feast for the eyes in autumn is absolutely amazing! Autumn colors of the Okanagan Valley, BCLong before Oliver was known

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Oliver, BC is our RV’ing home base for work for a few months which also makes for an easy drive to several beautiful locations in the Okanagan Valley of southern B.C. for the play part of RVing.   There are several places within less than an hour drive that will thrill the senses and offer many photo opportunites, which I admit I try to fulfill as often as I can. The welcome sign of Oliver,

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St. Andrews by-the-Sea sounds like it should be a wonderful little town and that is exactly what it is.  We drove 100 km (62 mi) west of Saint John, NB to spend some time at this very picturesque hamlet on the Passamaquoddy Bay.  Downtown St. Andrews, NB, CanadaThe main town of St. Andrews has been designated a National Historic District and many of the more than 250 homes that are 100 to 200

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Fall Colors in Canada from British Columbia to New Brunswick and Maine, USA For those of us who live where we have four seasons, we likely have favorites for a variety of reasons.  There is most definitely something beautiful about snow covered mountains, spring blossoms brightening our yards up after winter, warm summer days at the lake but then we have autumn..  Autumn is one the most beautiful

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We love rv’ing and the opportunities that it gives us to see this incredible country of ours but no matter how much time we have, we just cannot see all that we’d like to see. So with that in mind, our visit to Halifax, NS was far too brief but we decided that the time we had to be there would be spent on the Halifax Harbor Boardwalk.  Piers at Halifax Harbour Boardwalk, NSThe boardwalk, said to

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We were spending some time in Moncton, New Brunswick and we did have a short list of must-sees.  On that list was Hopewell Rocks, what was not on the list was a day of rain !  and then more rain !  We tried to wait it out but that didn’t seem to be possible and we were aware that we needed to be there before high tide came in. Pathway to Hopewell Rocks, NBWe headed out to the Bay of Fundy’s

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There are so many things to see on a Cross Canada RV trip that it is almost impossible to make out a list ! It isn’t possible to see it all but there are so many things we should not miss. One thing that had not entered my mind was seeing the Bluenose. You know, the schooner ship that has been on our Canadian dime since 1937?  I didn’t even know where it was, but let me share that experience with

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We were in Nova Scotia and the Maritime Provinces have some of the most beautiful lighthouses. I’d not seen the same on the west coast and was looking forward to getting pictures of as many of them as I could. Number one on that list was Peggys Cove.We followed the Lighthouse Trail scenic drive from where we were staying in Mahone Bay to Peggys Cove, one of the most photographed structures in the

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Amhurst, NS is located just 3 km across the border from New Brunswick, a small town with lots of history. We settled into a nice RV park and headed downtown to see some of the local sights and history of Nova Scotia on our first visit to the Maritimes. The Amherst Courthouse The downtown has some beautiful old brick churches and buildings, including the Courthouse pictured here. They were built

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The Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota has many very unique places to visit and one incredible area is along Hwy 87. This one 14 mile stretch of road is called the Needles Highway that takes you through a region of eroded granite, spires, towers and pillars like you have never seen before.  The Cathedral SpiresThis area was first considered for Mt Rushmore but was rejected by the

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The Black Hills National Forest, so named due to the fact the tree covered mountains looked black, consists of several areas in the region and all of them are incredible to see. The main industry in the past had been mining and timber but the tourism has taken over and that would include Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Sturgis Motorcycle rally and Custer State Park.  (clik on colored names to see

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Rving in Ventura and Pismo Beach California We’d been on the greatest RV Adventure we could ever have imagined but it was time to leave the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs for the last leg of our great adventure and start making our way home to Kamloops B.C. We had not made any RV park reservations but would follow the sun to the Pacific Ocean of Southern California and find a good place to

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Our visit to the Alamo was our first Mission and that was very interesting to see how life was then but we had more to see and much to learn. There are five Missions in the San Antonio area, and all are available for viewing with no fees charged. The largest concentration of Catholic missions in North America are right in the San Antonio, Texas area. They date back to the early 1700’s when the

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Our RV adventure in San Antonio, TX began with a bus ride downtown to see the Alamo and the River Walk. We don’t usually ride a city bus but this was the best way suggested by our RV park hosts and it sure was a lot easier than taking the big truck downtown. Olympics Storefront on Houston StreetOnce we got off the bus we started over to the Alamo and passed a storefront on Houston Street that

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Our RV Adventure has brought us to Texas, USA. The state is so large we know we’re not going to see all of it but we do want to see the very special sights in San Antonio, Texas. We arrived with plans for a few busy days. Our first day was to include a visit to the River Walk and the Alamo, the most visited historic site in Texas. Spirit of Sacrifice CenotaphThe first sight was the Spirit of

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We love rv’ing in the Coachella Valley and one of our stops is Desert Hot Springs, (DHS), CA just minutes north of Palm Springs, CA. Desert Hot Springs has been enjoying a major growth over the past few years and we’ve seen many changes since our first visits years ago. The hard work of their city administration and elected officials has allowed them to proceed with extensive infrastructure and

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We love RV’ing and seeing the local sights and learning all we can about the places we visit. There are so many gems out there and we try to see as many as we can during our stay. We headed out on a very overcast day to see Pioneertown, an old movie set up near Yucca Valley, CA and for a drive through Joshua Tree National Park, all just up Hwy 62 from Desert Hot Springs, CA. We did not see any

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We love rv’ing all over the country but there is one place that we love the most and that is Palm Springs, California. We have been rv’ing here many times over the years. Sometimes it was for just a few days as we passed through to get to other locations but we would always come back. Palm Springs is much like home in many ways, and  in a fairly central location for access to much of southern

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Remembrance Day has always been a special time for our family as my dad served in World War 2 and it was important that we honor our fallen soldiers and pay tribute to them all on November 11 at 11 am. I felt that we were honoring only those who had died but as time goes on, I realize that there were other sacrifices made by our soldiers and they should be honored as well. Most of the surviving

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We arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico on our Cross Country RV adventure on a beautiful sunny day and noticed that the city sure has grown since we were here last. The metropolitan population today is 845,000 (522,000 city) and is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Albuquerque is roughly half of the population of all of New Mexico. When we were here last, the population was about

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We love rving but one of the challenges is driving in strange large cities with many freeways and not getting onto the wrong one in rush hour. Nashville, Tn has a population of 626,144 but the metropolitan population, which includes all the counties, is 1,550, 733 so that makes for a large center but we had no problems getting around and with all those freeways, the traffic flows well and easy.

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We drove through Atlanta, Georgia on a wet and dreary day but there was one bright spot during the day and that was the Georgia State Capital building. We were busy concentrating on the changing freeways, which can be challenging while pulling a long RV, anytime but especially in busy times when not everyone is willing to let you change lanes when necessary. I would even say that ‘no one’ is

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I have always wanted to visit Savannah, Georgia. The pictures we’ve seen and the stories we’ve heard have always made it look and sound like a beautiful place to be. And it is all that and more.  We started at the Visitor Center at the Savannah History Museum and the Roundhouse Railroad Museum to get a feel of the history behind the city. We bought ourselves a ticket on one of the sightseeing

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Charleston to Savannah, Georgia It is not a secret that we love rv’ing but there are trials and tribulations that come along with all that fun. We’d left New Burn, N. C. on a very pretty sunny day and were planning on getting into Savannah, Georgia for our next stop. There had been some rain and heavy cloud during the last few days so we were pretty excited about spending time in the sunshine,

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We set off to leave Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on a beautiful sunny morning. We love rv’ing in any weather, but it isn’t easy to leave when the sun is shining for the first time of the visit. It just makes me want to go see those things we missed, like the beaches, or even see some of the same things again. It is all in the timing ! In this case, we were commited to move on and while I

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We left Virginia Landing with overcast skies and headed south down Hwy 13 to get to Virginia Beach. It is a short driving day but an exciting one because we are going to cross Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We really have no idea what to expect other than it is crossing the water and is about 20 miles long. We also didn’t know what the fees would be and expected them to be something to break the

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Malpeque to Cavendish Beach and a visit to Anne of Green Gables was such a beautiful time of our Cross Canada RV adventure. We'd left the RV in Moncton, NB to make this a day trip but there are several RV parks to enjoy on Prince Edward Island. We would have done that, if only we had more time..... never enough time to do everything we'd like to do. For this part of the day, we followed the Green

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A drive across Prince Edward Island is like a trip through time. The villages, the history showing in the churches and all that we know about this pretty little island gives us a welcoming feeling. The sunny day was a beautiful bonus to the day planned for our visit. The weather forecast said that Saturday was going to be the nicest day of the weekend, and that was so true. Sometimes that

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We love RV’ing but getting from one place to another isn’t always the fun part. We followed the highway to get us to Quebec City. We did manage to get through what seemed to be an early rush hour traffic in Montreal with construction ongoing and freeways entangled with each other, or so it seemed. That was definitely a challenge to get through but with the help of Miss GPS, we did make it. I

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The Terry Fox Run is being held on Sept. 13, 2009. The run is held all around the world, altho the dates can vary, but this young man started something that has continued to become bigger every year. He wanted to raise money for the cure of cancer, which he did but I do not think he could have ever imagined when he started to what the Terry Fox run has become today. The Terry Fox Run has raised

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Our visit to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital city was not long enough to see all that there is to see. The weather was absolutely gorgeous so we decided to use our time there seeing as much as we could that was accessible outside. There are guided walking tours available, which are a great way to learn all about what you’re seeing, and it makes the visit so much more interesting. I would

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Parliament Buildings of Canada ~ Ottawa, Ontario Parliament Hill is crown land on the south banks of the Ottawa River and home of the Parliament Buildings of Canada. They see over three million visitors a year. Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and 19th centuries, it began to develop as government buildings in 1859. There were a number of extensions built then a fire in 1916

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We love rv’ing without the limits of making reservations. We enjoy the freedom of being able to stop wherever it looks like it would be a great place to visit. That just does not always work out but some things are just meant to be.We were on our way to Ottawa, Ontario to visit the capital of Canada and looking forward to that when we stopped at Brockville, Ontario for groceries. We’d been

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Thousand Islands, which is the origin of the name for Thousand Island Dressing is an archipelago of islands that straddle Canada and the US border on the St. Lawrence River. They are scattered on the river for 80 km (50 mi) from Kingston to Brockville, Ontario.  We were staying in the Brockville, Ontario area, which is the eastern end of the Thousand Islands and there are Seaway cruises offering

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We love RVing to all kinds of places, and want to see everything we can while we’re there. That can’t happen but we definitely make an attempt to see as much as we can to know what the area has to offer.When we think of being in the Toronto area, we think of the big city and all that it offers. There is so much more to see and that was our plan. Southern Ontario is a beautiful place to visit and

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One of the reasons we love rv’ing is the opportunity it gives us to see another part of this country we live in and today was no exception. We set out on a sunny Sunday to visit the small towns in the area that give that special flavor to southern Ontario. One needs only spend an hour on the freeway from the big city of Toronto and you can enter into a totally unexpected world to someone

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Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area is part of the Niagara Escarpment and only a few kilometers by road from Crawford Lake Conservation Area, they’re both protected and managed by Conservation Halton. There are hiking trails connecting them for those that enjoy long treks, this one is 7.2km and not a loop, that is only one way. They recommend 4 or 5 hrs for a return trip. pathway thru the

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Now about that trek…….. if we’d planned this to be a trek, I would have been better prepared but noooooooo, didn’t do that ! We did take a bottle of water, I don’t go far without one so that was good. I always have my camera, so that was also good. It is all about the shoes or sandals in this case. It would have been a good idea to wear good walking shoes. We were only going for a short walk but

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Sault Ste Marie, Ontario is a pretty lakeside city, but I couldn’t talk about it without including something about the locks, that the ‘Soo’ as it is commonly called, is famous for. We had hoped to get a tour of it but the company that gave the boat tours wasn’t operating so we took a walk over there to see them for ourselves. That ‘walk’, which became a trek of its’own, will have to be on

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We love RV’ing and that has taken us to many rest stops on our RV adventures. They have ranged from a bit of pavement with a Point of Interest sign in the middle of nowhere to more, but most offer washroom facilities, picnic tables and perhaps some pictures of the local area. But we’ve never seen one that was as beautiful as the one at Thunder Bay called the Terry Fox Scenic Lookout.As we drove

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We left Kenora late morning to head east to Thunder Bay, Ontario, we love RV’ing and we're on our Cross Canada RV Adventure and are ready for another day of seeing new country. We enjoyed the new scenery, there are lots of rocks, trees and lakes and then more rocks, trees and lakes.We are starting to see some similarities to home in British Columbia. The highway is flanked by rock walls that the

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We Love RV’ing, especially on such a gorgeous day as today. We had sunshine all the way from Souris, Manitoba to Kenora, Ontario. The day was fairly uneventful except for the road construction being done. We basically bounced our way from Manitoba to Ontario so there is no doubt the road we followed was in need of being repair and they were working on it for miles, many many miles. It was nice to

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Souris, Manitoba held a special interest for us because Keith’s mother’s family had been from the area so we thought we’d include it on our Cross Canada RV adventure. As life often offers us little gifts, we got a nice one as we were parking in the RV park on our arrival.The neighbor started chatting and we told him there were family ties and he asked names, and when he heard them, he said that

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We Love RV'ing but we finally had “one of those days” ! We started out from Devil’s Tower on a bright sunny day and headed towards Keystone, SD, USA. The GPS system hasn’t been used much because we’ve been following the road. Now we have an RV park as a destination so Keith has entered the town of Keystone. Devil's Tower KOA groundsI know that GPS can be a wonderful thing but there are exceptions

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CRAZY HORSE MONUMENTThis monument does not get the same public coverage that Mt. Rushmore does internationally but it is an incredible attraction and I would recommend anyone to go to learn the story about the sculptor and how this has come to be where it is at now. It is a work in progress. Crazy Horse Monument The story of Crazy Horse is a great one and this monument shows the pride of the

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CUSTER STATE PARKWe are staying in an RV park just outside of the state park but drive thru the park on most of our trips to see the sights. The Black Hills of South Dakota have beautiful sights to offer and many animals roaming free, who seem to enjoy getting their pictures taken. Beautiful buffalo bullI am not sure the sound I heard from the buffalo was saying he was happy, maybe not all

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MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIALOur first day at Keystone, SD and we were anxious to see Mt.Rushmore in the flesh or granite.We arrived on a beautiful sunny late afternoon and were impressed with the monument. There is great pride shown and with good reason. This is one of those places that pictures can not do it justice. They have a museum that shows the progress of the carvings and stories from

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We love RVing so much that we are on our 2480 km (1550 mi) detour into the USA.We stayed at Buffalo Trails Campground, who has WiFi but we had none, even though our spot was supposed to have it. It was a rainy evening, which may have been a problem for wifi, and no satellite for TV so we spent time on our computersNext morning, we followed #85 south on a cloudy morning. The local time is Central

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We left Moose Jaw on a very dreary rainy morning. The visibility was poor and the prospects of taking scenic pictures and enjoying the view were slim at the moment. We headed down Hwy 2 with the hopes of seeing some of the historic parks in the southern part of the province.We refer to these roads we have been using as secondary roads but are in fact not considered that on the map legend. I don’t

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We’d called ahead to book an RV spot in Moose Jaw but were told that both parks were booked up. We were sure we could find something once we got here and we did. It is in one of the parks I’d called. A very small spot and meant for a small RV but luckily it is on a corner so we parked sideways and barely hung out over the road. It was not an ideal location, and had power only but we were only

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We left Saskatoon, Sask. at about 11am as we had a fairly short day's drive of 314 km (195 mi) to Moose Jaw, Sask. It did take awhile to get out of the city with only one misturn, then missed the highway we'd planned to take but got out onto Hwy 16E then turned south on Hwy. 2 for the rest of the trip. Storm clouds everchangingIt was a cool and cloudy day but other than a few drops of rain, we

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We went to Saskatoon, Sask. for a first time visit and to see some family that we hadn't seen in a very long time and the youngest generation we hadn't met before. Saskatoon is larger than we realized but the family was out in Martinsville, a small rural town north of Saskatoon so that made it easy to get to and we didn't spend a lot of time being lost, other than coming into the city on the

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We left Medicine Hat, AB by 10am with a temperature of 25C (77F) to head north on Hwy #41N, the Buffalo Trail which follows the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. We were treated with scenes of the rolling hills and pastures of farmland of the province.We chose to use secondary roads when possible so that we weren’t using freeways and missing the local beauty. The one thing that

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Medicine Hat, is a city of 61,000 people in south eastern Alberta, Canada. It is the sunniest city in Canada with mild winters and the hub city with connections to the Canadian Badlands and sites. We stayed at the Gas City Campground, which is city owned and is just off Hwy 1 passing thru town. It has many amenities, with a great playground that brings all the kids to play. My only complaint

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We spent our first nite parked in front of the library in Nordegg, AB., not as I had expected the first nite to be. It was one of very few places that one can pull off Hwy 11 at nite. There are few RV parks and most are several km. off the road with no guarantee we can drive our big RV down their roads, so that wasn't an option. We'd driven till 10pm so the idea of preparing dinner changed and a

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It is early afternoon and we are finally on the road for our Cross Canada Trip ’09. We’ve talked about doing this after retirement and the time has finally come. After a delay in leaving, we are going to cover the first leg of our trip in one and one half days rather than three days so we’re going to put in some long hours.We have had very hot weather at home for several days and we’re heading

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We set off on a sunny morning from Creston, BC, Canada after an overnite stay at the Sunset Motel east of town. Now we were approaching the East Kootenays, on our way to visit Karen’s cousin and see some sights in Alberta. Traffic was fairly light and we followed Hwy 3/95 through Moyie onto Cranbrook, BC, Canada where we stopped for fuel but no time to stay, we were on a mission to get to Alberta

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After enjoying a great lunch with our friend Karen Mae in Nelson, we left this pretty little city to carry on with our Kootenay Road Trip. We had places to go and see so we were on our way by early afternoon. We drove up Hwy 3A, which then becomes Hwy 31 at Balfour, BC, for about 46 km (28 mi) and stopped at Ainsworth Hot Springs with the thought of enjoying a swim in the hotsprings, something

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