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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…