Category: 00_All Trips

  • Open Range, Quirky RV and Falconry

    Open Range, Quirky RV and Falconry

    Today was mainly a travel day – we departed the campground around 8:30AM planning an arrival at the Widener’s ranch around 2PM. We’ve been having strange problems with both the Winnebago camper and the Sprinter chassis it is built on.  For several cycles of extending and retracting the slide-out, we’ve noticed that it does not…

  • Trails and Views

    Trails and Views

    Today was long and fun-filled in the shadow of Mount Rushmore, despite the gloomy weather.  It rained much of the morning, so we cooked inside – Tom and Scott both ate eggs, bacon, and toasted English muffins while Anthony ate boxed Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Scott bought at the Walmart, since it reminded him of…

  • Badlands (It’s Just Sand), Black Hills and Bigfoot

    Badlands (It’s Just Sand), Black Hills and Bigfoot

    Since we arrived in Moon Lake we often heard the sounds Killdeer birds, which flew around the yard of the “headquarters” house we were staying near.  On Wednesday morning Tom found an egg in the yard, which was camouflaged to look like the nearby rocks.  He also observed the bird attempting to lure him away…

  • Visiting a Ranch Is Better than Working on a Ranch

    Visiting a Ranch Is Better than Working on a Ranch

    Today was a big day for us as guests of Moon Lake Ranch.  In the morning before lunch Kelsey gave us a great tour of the “close” parts of the ranch.  We saw sheep and sheep babies, mountain goats and mountain goat babies, and reindeer and reindeer babies.  We got a great presentation of a…

  • Off the Grid

    Off the Grid

    We (or at least Scott) woke up early at Manawa Lake, but Tom, then Anthony followed, we ate breakfast and hit the road by 8:30AM.  It helped that we had loaded the bikes the night before, and hitched up the Polo as well.  Off to Moon Lake Ranch in Northern Nebraska.  This ranch belongs to…

  • We Have it Easier than the Pony Express Riders

    We Have it Easier than the Pony Express Riders

    We woke up early at the Veteran’s Museum and decided to show Anthony a piece of Americana by eating breakfast at a nearby Waffle House.  We at a good breakfast and watched in amazement as the waitress brought us a handwritten invoice, added up manually like it was the 20th century. We had planned on…

  • 5 States in 1 Day

    5 States in 1 Day

    Our trip today from Nashville, TN to O’Fallon, MO (outside of St. Louis) led us through 5 states: Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. We woke up early after our first Harvest Host stay after a relaxing, quiet night behind the church.  After a quick breakfast we were on our way to our next Harvest…

  • Grand Ole Opry

    Grand Ole Opry

    Saturday we left Allatoona Lake early and arrived at our arrival at our first “Harvest Host” site in Gallatin, TN.  With fairly low traffic congestion and the time change we originally had an arrival time before 11AM! Harvest Hosts is a program where you can stay at places overnight for free – you are just…

  • Buc-ee’s, Traffic and More Traffic and a Nice Lake

    Buc-ee’s, Traffic and More Traffic and a Nice Lake

    Friday was a long and mostly good day.  After a leisurely morning ritual and breakfast, we departed Jennings KOA for our next stop at the Allatoona Lake Campground (and resort!)  We stopped at Walmart on the way to get stuff that Scott and Tom (mostly Scott) forgot, and we once more forgot to buy Anthony…

  • New Meets Old

    New Meets Old

    We all woke up early on Thursday anticipating an afternoon departure for somewhere between Florida and Georgia.  We also anticipated a visit from the third OWG, Steve, who would stop by to plan our next trip with him, clean Scott’s camera, and give sage advice to the whippersnapper who was joining him on this trip…

  • Welcome Anthony Pinos!

    Welcome Anthony Pinos!

    Our team of Scott, Tom, and Anthony Pinos (Scott’s 19 year old former Little in the Big Brothers program) flew to Orlando on Wednesday June 7th.  The weather was hazy with smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketing the Northeast with stinky and irritating blanket that made visibility limited – in fact, the next morning visibility…

  • Dunellen Has Us Singing the Blues

    Dunellen Has Us Singing the Blues

    The day started without any drama – smooth departure around 8:15AM or so after breakfast.  Scott and Tom had a meeting at 10AM, so we decided to stop for this on the way somewhere with good cellular service – and that turned out to be Dunnellon .  Nice town with marked on-street parking, and a…