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HEADING NORTH UP THE OREGON COAST
Tolowa Dunes State ParkOn our penultimate day in Brookings, we decided to drive south to Tolowa Dunes State Park which is just north of Crescent City. This is a beach that has areas of small pebbles...
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PORTLAND, OREGON GARDENS
Jenkins EstateOn every trip to the northwest, we always plan on stopping in Portland so that we can visit Powell's bookstore to exchange our used books for more used books. This time we carried in 4...
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GIG HARBOR IN THE SUN
Last week we stayed at the Gig Harbor RV Resort so that we would be close to several gardens we wanted to visit and also to be within driving distance of the American Art Gallery where the Northwest...
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PIZZERIA PULCINELLA
When Allan and I are at home, we do a lot of cooking and eating at home. But when we are on the road in our rv, then we start looking for interesting places to eat. When we look for a restaurant, we...
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SEATTLE TO ANACORTES
We are currently at the Fidalgo Bay RV Resort in Anacortes, Washington and it seems as if the last couple of weeks have just flown by. For all of you who know us, you will know that we have been just...
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VANCOUVER REFLECTIONS
Capilano RV ParkWe have been off line for the last week because we were visiting Vancouver, British Columbia. We crossed the border at Blaine, WA and it was about a half hour wait with an abrupt, dare...
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WINTHROP TO WENATCHEE
Elsie, Murray, and Allan driving over Hwy 20 to Winthrop, WA.Our first stop after leaving Vancouver was a small cowboy themed town on Hwy 20 East called Winthrop. We had driven Hwy 20 on past trips,...
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BACK TO BC
Tomorrow we are leaving Coeur d'Alene early in the a.m. and are heading north to Radium Hot Springs in British Columbia. It will be a long drive for us plus the added time of crossing the border. I...
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RADIUM HOT SPRINGS
Columbia River Wetlands about 5 miles south of Radium Hot springs looking west toward the Purcell Mountains.We have just returned from a two week visit to SE British Columbia. Having heard how...
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GOING TO THE SUN IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Spruce Park RV Park along the Flathead River, MontanaThe drive down hwy 93 from Canada to Kalispell, Montana was scenic and easy. Almost all of the scenery was of farm fields with the mountains in the...
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ON TO YELLOWSTONE
Jim and Mary's RV ParkFrom Glacier NP, we headed south to Missoula where we stayed at Jim and Mary's RV Park. This was not our first visit here and we can highly recommend this rv park for its beauty,...
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TETONS AND HOME
Grand TetonsAfter two weeks in Yellowstone with no cell phone and limited email, we were happy to move south to Coulter Bay where we would be within driving distance to Jackson. Hopefully in Jackson...
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BACK HOME AND BUSY....
We arrived home in Arizona just in time to get ready for our Fall Show in the Scottsdale Artists School. Allan got two paintings accepted....Little YachtsMt. ShuksanI also got two paintings juried...
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SUMMER IS HERE AND WE ARE BACK ON THE ROAD
This has been one of the hardest winters we have gone through in many ways. The very worst part was Elsie ending up in the hospital for an esophageal obstruction (dog bone) and subsequent pneumonia....
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GROVER BEACH... END OF WEEK ONE.
One of the fruits we purchased at the farmers market was a seedless mandarin orange. Umm Yum. Not too sour, not too sweet... just right. Easy to peel, kind of like a tangerine... and no seeds....
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Grover Beach - Week Two
This week we drove up to Paso Robles to do some wine tasting. Actually it is Allan that does the tasting, and I take a tiny sip every so often when he thinks it is a good wine. The first place we...
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BEACH.. BISHOP...HOME...AND BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN.
Allan and kayak at Morro Rock.It has been quite a while since my last post in Grover Beach, California where we became distracted over some issues from home. Mainly a couple of letters from the...
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On To Ruidoso, New Mexico
Organ MountainsWe left Las Cruces early Tuesday morning, so that we would have time to stop at White Sands National Monument on our way to Ruidoso. Heading out on Hwy 70 we traveled east towards the...
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ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
Maybe it is the missile proving grounds, or maybe it is just something in the air, but everywhere we go.... there are little green men, except they are silver around here. Especially in Roswell, New...
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RACING BACK TO HOME
While we were in Ruidoso, we went to the horse races a couple of times, which was a great outing for an afternoon. Since the temperatures are in the 70's in Ruidoso, and the sun is mostly shining...
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TUCSON GETAWAY
We are starting to get the itch to get out on the road more, now that we have our new (used) motorhome. This came about for a number of reasons, mostly because we wanted to get away from using the...
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YUMA TO SAN DIEGO
Yesterday we drove from Yuma to the Elks Lodge in Chula Vista where we will be for the next 5 days. Interstate 8 was covered in California Poppies which was a remembrance of times past when we lived...
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ARRIVED IN ALBUQUERQUE
Isleta Lakes RV Parkin Albuquerque, NMArrived on Sunday and immediately went out for some green chile stew. Not as good as up in Santa Fe... but we may find something better by the end of the week....
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Arriving in Texas
Here we are in Rockport, Texas, staying at the Lagoons RV Resort. After being at the Pastel Convention for a week, we headed south to Las Cruces where we visited COAS to leave a couple of bags of our...
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Art Along I-35
The very first time we came to Rockport, Texas was a very hot July and we were in time for the Rockport Art Festival, which is a juried exhibition of original art, by many local and not so local...
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