Alabama Hills Recreation Area Lone Pine, California November 20-22, 2017   The online reviews of boon docking sites in the Alabama Hills Recreation Area were beckoning us to this spot, but the real draw for me was seeing Mount Whitney.  I’d never realized until last year that the highest point in the contiguous 48 (Mt. […]

Richardson Grove State Park, California November 11-18, 2017 I can’t really explain the feeling of walking through the redwood forests. It makes me feel like my body is humming with life, but also like I need to be very still. The trees make me feel so tiny, but also like my actions have enormous consequences. […]

Crescent City, California November 10, 2017 On our way south from the Oregon coast down to the California Redwoods, we planned to find a boon docking site for 1 night to split up the long trip.  We were tentatively aiming for a casino parking lot in Crescent City, but as we got closer Brad noticed […]

Florence, Oregon November 2-10, 2017 We spent one rainy week camped on the Oregon Coast at a mostly-empty county RV park right outside of Florence, Oregon. It felt good to be back on the road again after our month in Wenatchee, but it was also jarring to go from the busy, logistically-complicated month of happy […]

French Prairie Rest Area, I-5 Southbound November 1-2, 2017 I could see why this one had been flagged by other RV’ers as a great overnight location. I’d never seen a highway rest area as large as the one where we spent our first night of “year 2” on the road. This bizarre, outdoor, concrete motel […]

Wenatchee, Washington October 1-November 1 It’s hard to know how to capture the story of our time in Wenatchee completely enough to summarize it. As expected, it was a whirlwind of happy, fun activity. We spent great quality time with close friends and bumped into acquaintances at the grocery store. We had meals around tables […]

Chehalis, WA September 20-27 As we were driving around Washington in September, a “wiring fault on trailer” message kept appearing on our dash. It had occasionally come on at earlier points in our trip, but all of the lights and blinkers still continued to work when the warning appeared, so we had more or less […]

Forks, Washington September 13-20   We had always wanted to explore the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park on the Washington peninsula, so we decided to home-base out of Forks, Washington to do just that. All that we knew about Forks was that it is the setting for the Twilight novels, but I was sure […]

Quinalt Casino Ocean Shores, WA September 10-13 A few hours west of the Seattle area, we took advantage of free casino parking at the Quinalt Casino, overlooking the sunset coast. This was our first real casino parking lot stay, besides our very quick 1-nighter at the casino in Niagara Falls. While we were somewhat surprised […]

Puget Sound September 7-10 I love Washington State – it’s varied climates – alpine wilderness, sage brush desert, evergreen forests, majestic ocean vistas, volcanoes – and it’s vastly different pockets of American culture – from the conservative ranching communities in the east to the progressive yurt dwellers on the Northern Puget Sound. But one thing […]

Winthrop, WA September 5-7 We have visited the Methow Valley a number of times during our time living in Washington. It’s beautiful and quaint and offers a host of outdoor recreation opportunities. We hoped to have a basecamp in the area for a week or more to see more of area that we’d never had […]

Conconully, WA September 2-5 Labor Day weekend was one of the first times in a long time that we felt it pertinent to have reservations somewhere. Since we’d never explored North Central Washington as thoroughly as we’d like to, we found a state park with an opening for a stay over the long, busy weekend. […]

Spokane, WA August 26-29 We rolled into the Washington State campground north of Spokane in the early evening. It had been a long day, and it already felt like a lifetime to happened since we left Glacier that morning. Tire change on the interstate. Visit to Les Schwab. More stops that usual including one hunt […]