14Jul 2015 by Lboll

Homer and Seldovia, Alaska

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The town of Homer, Alaska is at the end of the Sterling Highway. The Homer Spit is a 4.5 mile geographical landmark on the south tip of the Kenai Peninsula that goes out into the Kachemak Bay. Marinas, restaurants, shops, a hotel, and a few campgrounds fill the Spit. It was enjoyable checking out shops on the Spit and we had a wonderful halibut lunch at one of the restaurants. We also booked a wildlife cruise with Rainbow Tours for a 7 hour trip to Seldovia, an island in the Kachemak Bay. Our tour started at 10:30 from the dock in Homer. An hour and a half cruise checking out wildlife before we were to dock at Seldovia. We headed out to Gull Island to check out the birds. …

12Jul 2015 by Lboll

Our Alaska Bear Viewing Adventure

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As we started really planning our Alaska adventure we talked about things we wanted to do. We realize this is our one and only time taking a trip to Alaska so we wanted to do “those Alaska” things. We talked about taking a bear viewing tour but having a fear of flying I had a hard time seeing myself in a small plane. Joe started checking on a boat bear viewing tour. We did find one but you had to be on the boat for 6 hours. Then we started thinking about what happens if the water is rough. Six hours on rough water would not be a lot of fun. We started looking at plane tours and started talking to people who had gone on them and well it…

06Jul 2015 by Lboll

The Start of Our Alaska Adventure

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Beautiful – what more can I say! We’ve seen some absolutely beautiful scenery, have stayed at some gorgeous campsites (and some not so gorgeous) and taken some fabulous hikes and all in such a short period of time. What a wonderful world! I keep getting asked why I’m not posting more on the blog. I have a lot of excuses – we don’t have electricity and the computer needs to be plugged in, we don’t have internet service so I can’t download it, we are just too darn busy enjoying Alaska but my best excuse is that my computer decided to quit and Joe just won’t share his (best excuse ever). We have been looking for a new computer for me but not a lot of options in the area…

13Jun 2015 by Lboll

British Columbia to Yukon, Canada

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What a wonderful world, yes what a wonderful world we live in. I can’t tell you the number of wonderful people we have met as we have been travelling. From Minneapolis to Australia, from Ohio to Quebec, from Florida to Germany, just wonderful people with stories to share. We might camp next to a couple from Australia one night and move on the next day and when we pull into a park here they come. We might take a doggy walk with Lily around the park and stop to visit with a couple from Quebec and pretty soon an hour or two have passed and then we might see them again down the road a few hundred miles at a different park. It is a wonderful world and we are…

05Jun 2015 by Lboll

What a Wonderful World

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a beautiful park that isn’t talked about much. It is a fantastic park that we love. In 2011 we stayed in the North Unit and this go-around we stayed in the South Unit. We waited for the buffalo to roam through our camp as they did in the North Unit but no such luck. There was a lot of evidence as we walked around that they do go through but not this day. We appreciated having our mini-camper since the sites were very small and the road was tight to get around. We stayed one night and moved on to a nice Corp of Engineer Park in Fort Peck, MT. We are hardly ever disappointed when we stay in a Corp park and this one…

26May 2015 by Lboll No Comments

Alaska Here We Come!

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We are sitting in a beautiful Corp of Engineer Park in Valley City, North Dakota on our way to Alaska. We left Minnesota at 6:30 this morning for our Alaska adventure. We are so excited! But along with the excitement always comes leaving family. We had a wonderful six weeks in Minnesota. It was filled with necessary things such as dentist and doctor’s appointments. And then there were the fun times with family and friends. Over the last years we have meet so many great people during our summer stays at Dakotah Meadows so it is great to revisit them when we return. They have stories to tell about how they survived the Minnesota winter in their RV or those that go south we share tails of our travels. And…

20Mar 2015 by Lboll

North to Ohio – Spring 2015

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I’ll start this blog with how I ended the last one – Joe and I are celebrating today as we do every day that we have together. We are thankful for having this opportunity to enjoy each other, seeing this beautiful country, for our health and the health and wellbeing of our children and grandchildren. That said we send our prayers and ask our friends to send their prayers for our bother-in-law, Tom, who is have some very serious heart issues at the present time. God be with him and his family. As we traveled to Ohio we spent several days in two of Louisiana’s beautiful state parks. Our first stop was at Lake Claiborne SP in Homer, LA. Absolutely beautiful park full of very large pine trees with…

17Feb 2015 by Lboll

Texas State Parks

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We are leaving Texas on Thursday heading to Louisiana and then moving north to Cincinnati. Our plans at this point are to be by Zach and Lauren’s around the 10th of March. It has turned cold as has most of the country so the long johns have come back out. We are thinking that we will be using them for awhile since we are going north a little early this year. Why are we so foolish? We want to spend time with the kids both in Ohio and Minnesota before we head to Alaska mid-May for the summer. That is our plans as of now but things can always change. In the last three weeks we have stayed at three wonderful Texas state parks. Each was so different but loved…

29Jan 2015 by Lboll

Texas

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We ended up staying in the Dallas area until January 12th. The weather was rainy and a little chilly and we weren’t in any hurry to put things away or set-up in the rain. Our goal was to head south to the Gulf with a few stops on the way. Our first stop was at a Corp of Engineer Park in Georgetown. Jim Hogg COE Park was great. We had a site overlooking Lake Georgetown and it was very quiet until the weekend. The park filled up with families for the weekend even though the temperatures were a little on the chilly side. Kids don’t seem to care as long as they can be outside playing. By using Trip Advisor we found a fantastic Tex Mex restaurant called Dos Salas. …

05Jan 2015 by Lboll

Winter/Christmas/Minnesota

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January 5, 2015 – I’m sitting at the table watching our friendly campground coyote and trying to stay warm. After coming back from five days in Minnesota in the bitter cold I shouldn’t and can’t complain about the weather in Texas but I will for just a second. It has been darn cold here. Yesterday we had a high of 37 and today it should get to 40. In a few days they are predicting an overnight low of 14. I think it is time to move out of the Dallas area and head a little farther south. As we made our way into Texas from Louisiana we were fortunate to stay at two very nice Corp of Engineer Parks. I guess because it has been cold, both parks were…