STOP 9 – COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, OREGON – CONTINUED

September 20, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Today we went to the town of Cascade Locks. I needed the post office to buy some stamped envelopes and mail a post card to Theo and Penny. I was […]

STOP 9 – COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, OREGON

September 19, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

I wanted to go to Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Jerry wanted to go to the Columbia River Gorge. You know the picture you see that is so amazing? We […]

STOP 8 – PLYMOUTH, WASHINGTON

September 17, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Today was a long day of driving. So far, we have come 2,213 miles with 319 miles today. Poor Ernie was sitting and couldn’t keep his eyes open during the […]

STOP 7 – QUARTZ FLAT CAMPGROUND, SUPERIOR, MONTANA

September 16, 2023.Reading time 10 minutes.

No internet today but wanted to write this down while it is fresh in my mind. Today was the day of wild west small towns. We left Bozeman and stopped […]

STOP 6 – BOZEMAN, MONTANA

September 14, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Bozeman! What a town. We have been having a great time and experienced the second day of rain. I wanted to come here because we watch the whole Yellowstone franchise. […]

STOP 5 – BILLINGS, MONTANA

September 12, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

I will start off by saying Billings is a bust. I expected to see historic building from the wild west. There was one street and we drove right by and […]

STOP 4 – THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK – 09/08 TO 09/12

September 11, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

To say this stop exceeded my expectations is an understatement. As long as I have wanted to come here, I never imagined it would be as incredible as it has […]

STOP 3 – MEDINA, ND – ROAD TRIP!

September 6, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Today we are staying overnight in a city park that is on the edge of the high school baseball field. It looks like a number of our neighbors are homeless […]

STOP 2 – SALK CENTER, MN

September 5, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

We left Wisconsin on Monday; Labor Day and the traffic was manageable. The traffic coming towards us was not. We were leaving large cities behind us and going to the […]

STOP 1 – BLACK RIVER FALLS, WI

September 3, 2023.Reading time 10 minutes.

It is Labor Day weekend and we arrived on Friday. I knew the park was full since we secured the last site with electric for the weekend. I really wanted […]

ITALY AND BEYOND

August 27, 2023.Reading time 37 minutes.

I am writing this from an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean near Newfoundland as the flight tracker tells me. I will post when I get home to Chicago and not […]

Bears on Holiday Day 4 – 6

August 8, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

On Sunday we took the train back to the Duomo to go to the Duomo Museum. It was very interesting. There were many sculptures and models of statutes on the […]

Bears on Holiday Days 1-3

August 5, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Well, you may know I have made a 9” bear for each of my grandchildren and have been making clothes for them. I have been posting them and their outfits […]

Is This Heaven?

July 20, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

We are only about 15 miles from Iowa so we took a ride today across the Mississippi River. I have mentioned before I have a thing about the Mississippi River. […]

Timber Lake Resort

July 19, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

We seldom come to RV resorts. They are very expensive; have amenities we do not use and spaces are typically close together. Many do not have trees around spaces so […]

NYC Going Way Back

June 7, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

This weekend I had the fun of visiting with my family and attending my 50th High School Reunion. I have said a few times, how did I get here? The […]

LAKE SHELBYVILLE

May 28, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

We are now in Lake Shelbyville and taking it easy. We have been relaxing the last few days and enjoying it so much. It is really beautiful here. Our space […]

Shawnee National Forest

May 26, 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

This is our first trip of 2023 and it has been eventful! Before we start on the road, I like to be sure the RV is checked out. So, we […]

LOOKING TOWARD THE OPEN ROAD

March 7, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

It’s time to start planning. The sun is warming Chicago – just a bit and our big trip is within the 6 month window to make reservations. This year is […]

WHAT’S NEW? AND LAST STOP ON THE ACADIA TRIP

September 25, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

We have been home for a little more than a week now and have finally caught up to our home life schedule, just in time to leave again next week. […]

STOP 18 AND 19 –LAKE VESUVIUS AND HARRISON, OHIO – 9/1 to 9/5

September 5, 2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

Lake Vesuvius is part of the Wayne National Forest in southern Ohio just over the border from Kentucky. While we were driving on the highway and looking down on the […]

STOP 16-18 –MARYLAND, WEST VIRGINIA AND OHIO – 8/27-9/1

September 1, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

We are sitting here in Pedro, Ohio 41 days and 3,017 miles after leaving Bloomingdale, IL on our way back over the next 8 days, 7 weeks on the road. […]

STOP 15 –GETTYSBURG – 8/27

August 29, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Gettysburg is a somber place with a lot left to teach us. I was there when I was somewhere between 10 and 13 and don’t remember one bit of it. […]

STOP 14 – PENNSYLVANIA STATE PARKS – DAYS 1 TO 4 – 8/23-8/27

August 28, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

We wanted to stop in Gettysburg on the trip so that meant driving southwest through PA and obtaining another state on the map, it is getting full! The first stop […]

STOP 13 – ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING AND VARIOUS OTHER STOPS, NJ – 8/19-8/23

August 28, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

After leaving Cooperstown we made our way to New Jersey and the main reason this trip has the timing it does, my last nephew’s wedding. Michael is my brother’s youngest […]

In the past Theo has told me that I am American like his mother and he is British like his father. This year I broke the sad news to him that he is 1/2 American. He responded with a sigh, Yes, grandma I know that.

On my recent trip to see my daughter and her family, my grandson said to me while we were playing with puzzles and I frequently did not find the proper piece, “Grandma, you are not very clever at puzzles.” Oh, to be insulted by a four year old.

While we were in London, my grandson had much to say to me, seems he has a lot of opinions (not sure where he got that from). I did not have proper footwear for rainy weather, why didn’t I bring more shoes, I didn’t have a sweater, I can’t throw a ball as well as Jerry and my favorite overheard him telling his friends not to worry about me when we were playing a game similar to tag, I am old and walk VERY slowly so I could not catch them. But I think the cutest thing he said to me when I was telling him I would be leaving and would miss him and have no one to play with. After a few moments he said it was okay I had Jerry to play with when I got home. The innocence of children.

One of my fears is that my grandchildren will not know who I am. The other day my grandson picked out a book he had not read and told my daughter that grandma had given it to him in the car. The last time we were in a car together was December 2019 and I did give him the book he picked out. What a guy!

My daughter was speaking with my three year old grandson about his new two month old sister and how she is a baby. My grandson claims he was never a baby. When his mom showed him a picture of his baby self his reply was: Fake News.