Category Archives: Travel Journal

There will be 3 parts to my Reno/Sparks posts. This first post will cover some basic stay details and an overview. The next post will cover our Grandson Ronan and our time with Patrick and Mysha. The third post will give a few photos and details of our visits with our friends there. After aContinue reading “Reno/ Sparks area – July 1 through August 26, 2020 – Part 1: General stay details”

January of this year we stayed in Chandler, near Phoenix, and met a couple in another Dutch Star right next to ours. Jordy and Kim have since become great friends. They live in Salt Lake City and recommended this RV Park about 45 minutes away from the city in Heber City, which is actually veryContinue reading “Heber City, Utah – June 22 to June 30, 2020”

The main reason we wanted to spend time in the Rapid City area was our desire to see Mt. Rushmore and spend some time in Custer State Park. But the next major trip was planned to see the city of Deadwood, basically a tourist version of the original mining city featured in the HBO TVContinue reading “Mt. Rushmore & The Kellys come to South Dakota”

OK, OK, I know this title is a little trite. And not even that accurate really. But it popped into my head as we were driving through The Badlands National Park and it tickled me, so I’m sticking with it. As I said on a prior post we spent 2 weeks in the southwest cornerContinue reading “The Badlands are Bad, man”

Leslie had wanted to go this area ever since I can remember. We found this RV Park through Newmar, who recommended it as ideal for big rigs like ours. The park was very large and the sites were also large and easy to use. The RV Park also had a few cabins so we couldContinue reading “Spearfish, South Dakota – near Rapid City- Elkhorn Ridge RV Park- June 6-20, 2020”

After only one night in Madison we moved on to South Dakota for almost 3 weeks. Our first (of two) stops was in Sioux Falls. We stayed at another KOA right on the city edge. As I mentioned previously Leslie suffered a rib pull injury on our way east towards Newmar in Indiana. By theContinue reading “Sioux Falls, South Dakota – June 1-5, 2020”

After we picked up our coach on Friday the 30th we were allowed to stay one more night at the Newmar Service Center RV Park, and left on Saturday. Leslie has always wanted to go to the Rapid City, South Dakota area as that not only is the home of Mt. Rushmore, but also CusterContinue reading “May 31, 2020 – Leave Newmar for Madison, WI at the Madison KOA”

In truth only our coach was all 5 nights in Nappanee, as Leslie and I spent 4 nights in the Fairfield Inn in Goshen, Indiana. But I liked this title for the blog so I’m sticking with it. Nappanee, Indiana is the location of Newmar, the manufacturer of our motorhome. As I have referenced inContinue reading “5 nights in Nappanee”

We left Albuquerque early on the morning of May 19 to continue our journey east to what most Newmar owners call “The Mother-ship”, the Newmar Service Center in Napenee, Indiana. The drive through New Mexico, the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma had one distinctive characteristic: armadillo road kill. It seems like we saw one every fewContinue reading “Indio to Indiana Part 2: Amarillo; Oklahoma City; Marshfield, MO; Effingham, Illinois;”

Before all the pandemic closures we had made plans and reservations to take Elsie, our Motorhome, back to the Newmar factory in Napanee, Indiana for the one year maintenance and some simple warranty issues. For a while we figured that wasn’t going to happen and were worried our one year warranty date would pass andContinue reading “Indio to Indiana– Part 1: Phoenix, Flagstaff and Albuquerque”