tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72744126442840636022024-03-05T02:00:42.202-08:00Reids on the Road 2karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-17734164219242416802017-12-28T16:41:00.000-08:002017-12-28T17:24:42.853-08:00New blogAs I wrote before, I have had capacity issues on this blog site. So, I’ve started a new blog for 2018. I hope you will continue to follow our adventures - whether it is with us camping in our Airstream or chilling at our tiny house in South Texas, or housesitting around the world.<br />
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Happy New Year! karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-15561568468817348462017-12-01T12:31:00.000-08:002017-12-01T12:31:04.182-08:00November update and December plansReids on the Road 2<br />
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November update —<br />
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We spent most of November in our RV community called Retama Village. Highlights of the month were visits from our traveler friends Tony and Jenny, finishing up a 6-month camping trip from Nova Scotia, all the way to Alaska, south through California, then on to visit us in very far south Texas. Our daughter Alexis also visited us for a few days around Thanksgiving. We love having visitors. We took our guests to beautiful South Padre Island for a few days at the beach, and to Mexico to do some shopping.<br />
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We also took the Airstream out for a few trips. We hope to do this periodically while we stay in Retama Village, as a way to get to know Texas better. We went to Falcon State Park where we visited a bird sanctuary and saw lots of exotic birds. <br />
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While in Retama Village, George stays busy with projects around the house and with some social events with others in the community. I do water aerobics daily and have joined a line-dance class! W<br />
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We have also been busy as we prepare for our presentations in Rochester, Minnesota in January/February. We will be speaking on “retiring and traveling the world on a shoestring budget” to the library’s fundraiser and to various civic clubs. We also made a collage of photos from our 25 housesitting assignments as our latest wall art.<br />
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George’s sister and her husband will be visiting us in mid-December. We are looking forward to their visit. Then, we are off to Panama for our next housesitting assignment. We will spend Christmas there, staying in a condo overlooking the canal. Another one to check off from the bucket list!<br />
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While our daughter Alexis was visiting us, we took advantage of her computer technology skills. She helped us set up our new blog. We will start posting again in mid-December. It is named ‘ www.reidsontheroad2018.wordpress.com. Hope you will follow us. We will be able to attach photos once again.<br />
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Cheers! George and Karmenkarmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-21297798829582395082017-11-01T07:09:00.000-07:002017-11-01T07:09:44.805-07:00October review and November plans<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">To - Reidsontheroad blog followers,</span>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">On our way back home (to South Texas) in early October, we stopped by an Airstream dealership in Austin, Texas. We fell in love with a 25-foot Flying Cloud Airstream and traded in our 2012 22-foot Airstream for it. Our old Airstream had served us very well, traveling with us all over the USA, Canada, and parts of Mexico. The new one’s 3 additional feet make it seem so much roomier. </div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We left the old Airstream at the dealership and drove 5 more hours south to Mission, where we have our tiny house. After a few days, our new Airstream was ready to be picked up. We decided to turn the trip into a tiny vacation. We stopped first in San Antonio and stayed near the downtown, strolling the Riverwalk and enjoying the sites of that historic city. The next day we picked up our new Airstream. (This reminds me that we really have to name it.). We took off for the Texas Hill Country, just west of Austin. We spent a few nights in Johnson City, home of LBJ, whose ranch we visited. This is also Texas wine country. We did some wine tastings and then stayed overnight (free) at a winery outside of darling Fredericksburg through Harvest Hosts. This Harvest Host site, like most, did not offer any electricity or water hook-ups. That was ok as we needed to test the Airstream’s ability to “boondock”. We woke up after a night off the grid to a dead battery. So, we took it back to the dealership to get it fixed. Good thing we discovered this while we were close to the dealership.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Back in Retama Village in Mission, Texas, we spent crazy weeks busily getting the house ready for our first guests. We had a small shed built on to the back of the tiny house to store the garage-type “junk”. What a relief to move charcoal grills, bicycles, camping gear, tools, etc from our house to the shed. We had a shower door installed and finished buying furniture. All, just in time for our first guests’ arrival. Tony and Jenny, roadie friends from Nova Scotia, arrived with their R-Pod camper. They spent a few nights with us here, parked and hooked up in our driveway, then all of us went to South Padre Island for a few days, camping near a marina. Then, back here to show them the sights around here. A highlight was a shopping trip to Progreso, Mexico.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">George is going to visit our daughter in Todos Santos, Baja California for a few days. (Home of Hotel California). Then our other daughter will come down from Rochester, Minnesota to visit us for a few days around Thanksgiving. We hope to host more friends and family throughout the winter. We are also busy applying for more housesits. We may spend Christmas in Panama. </div>
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As I posted before, I have run out of capacity on this blog for photos. I will start a new blog (with lots of photos) starting in January. Send me an email at reidkarm@gmail.com with your email address so I can send you a link to the new blog in January.
Meanwhile, I will post monthly updates (without photos). :(
September --
Hard to believe that we started September way up north, with my aunt an uncle in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. After spending a few days with them on their farm, we had a "holiday" with them at a cozy cabin in Jasper National Park, British Columbia. Just lovely. From there, we had glorious drives through the Rocky Mountains, ending up in Idaho. We met up with our roadie friends Tony and Jenny who are from Nova Scotia. We camped with them in Idaho, making day trips to view the beautiful scenery there. Unfortunately, smoke from their many forest fires hid the grandeur. We happily discovered Harvest Hosts. It is a RV membership ($40/year) whereby we can camp FREE at wineries, breweries, museums, organic farms, etc. As soon as we became members, we stayed in 10 locations. All were unique and fun! What a great concept! We have been trying to see as many USA National Parks as we can. The biggie - Yosemite - was still on our list to see, so we made it happen on this trip. Joining up with Tony and Jenny again, we stayed a few nights in the northern, alpine section. Then, down to the Yosemite Valley for more breath-taking scenery. The day after we left the northern section, there was a 9-inch snowfall, trapping all the campers there. We just dodged that bullet! From there, we visited and camped at Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park and were dwarfed by the amazing, gigantic sequoia trees there. Then, on back through the desert, staying at several fun Harvest Host sites - a fun 1950s diner, a schoolhouse converted to a brewery/restaurant, and a winery. Then, to Austin, Texas where we bought a new Airstream! This one is brand new and is 3 feet longer. We traded in our old one, which has really been a great trailer but is now a little road weary. Now back at our tiny house in south Texas, we are busy with getting the house ready.
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We will pick up the new Airstream next week in Austin, and will turn that into a week camping trip - with plans to stay a few days in the Texas Hills wine country, in an RV park and one night at a Harvest Host winery site. Then, our friends Tony and Jenny will join us here for a few days. We plan to show them around the area, including a day trip across the Mexican border, and a few days on South Padre Island. We still have a lot of honey-dos to complete in the house, but it is coming along.
Remember to send me an email with your email for the next blog.
I'll post again at the beginning of November.
Thanks again for being loyal readers!!!!
Bonkers - if you are reading this, send me your email please.
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karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-37248439946317707562017-09-24T12:23:00.000-07:002017-09-25T07:06:53.362-07:00Status Update on ReidsontheRoad Blog<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Dear ReidsontheRoad readers...</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I have reached my limit on the number of photos I can post on the blog, so I will have to create a new blog. I've decided to hold off on that until January. So, there will be a few months without the blog. In January (with the help of my daughter), I will create a new blog called...</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">* We spent about a week in the Yosemite National Park area with our friends Tony and Jenny. It is really incredible. The first part of our stay was in the northern, high elevation section. We did a lot of hikes, seeing outstanding views of lakes, mountains, and meadows. Then, we went to the lower part, the Yosemite Valley, for another day or so. When we were there, we learned that the upper part, where we had been the day before, got 9 inches of snow over night. They closed the road and the visitors there were stranded. It could have been us! In the Yosemite Valley, we did more hikes. We saw the famous El Capitan huge granite peak, and lots of waterfalls.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">* From Yosemite, we descended about 8000 feet and camped overnight (free) in another Harvest Host site. This one is a winery/vineyard/event center in the San Joaquin Valley. We tasted and bought some wine, and picked some veg for the road.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">* Back up to the mountains, this time to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park. Two parks in one. We camped overnight under the gigantic sequoias. We saw the General Sherman Tree, the world's largest tree. About the equivalent of a 30-story building!</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">* Then, down the mountain again, through thousands of acres of fruit trees - avocados, citrus, olive, peach and more. Amazing what irrigation can do (and how dependent this area is on water!). We had a long drive, through part of the Mojave Desert, and stopped for the day in Barstow, where we had another Harvest Host stay. This one at Peggy Sue's 50's Diner! How fun! We ate dinner there and breakfast the next morning. Lots of food, cute Hollywood decor, and cheap prices. </div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I will post on Facebook more frequently so you can keep up with our adventures if you would like. We are ending our summer/fall road trip, and will probably arrive at our new tiny house in early October. We hope to host friends and family there for the rest of 2017. Then, in 2018, our tentative plans are...</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">--Road trip to the St. Lawrence River area (Quebec, Ontario, Upstate New York, Vermont, Maine). Recommendations of places to go would be welcomed! </div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">We got up early from the campground outside the park, and made a dash to one of the campgrounds here inside the park. This campground is half reserved and half first come-first served. Reservations get booked up a year in advance, so your only option is to get there early, stand in line and hope for a site. We got lucky. Not only did we get sites, but we got a site near Tony and Jenny. We'll stay here 2 nights, then move somewhere to spend 2 more days exploring the valley part of the park.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">They had record amounts of snow this year. The highway to Yosemite on this higher eastern side was not even open until July 4. Campgrounds did not open until August 1. They will close September 25, so the season is very short. We are at 9000 feet, in the alpine meadow part of the park. </div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">At the spring, George tried out his water distillation straw. It is designed for people traveling where there is not potable water available. He said this spring water tasted like iron. </div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We drove to Bodie State Park, a ghost town that has been preserved by the park system. In the 1800s it was a very prosperous gold mining town. In 1879 it had a population of about 10,000.
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We went to the visitors' center in the northern part of the park. A ranger just happened to be giving an information talk, so we joined up with that. We stopped by the campground where we hope to get a "first come-first served" site tomorrow night in the northern section of Yosemite. </div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">On our way out of the Monument road, we picked up a hiker/hitchhiker and took him to the town of Mammoth Falls. He had been hiking in the forest for several days and was just too tired to walk the 15 miles or so back to his car. We are glad we did as he gave us some valuable information about places to go later in the day. </div>
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They gave us some helpful information about the area and about trying to get a campsite inside Yosemite starting on Monday. Our camping buddies Tony and Jenny will join us on Sunday evening. We will try to camp together in Yosemite for a few nights while touring the park. Yosemite is one of the few National Parks that is still on our "to do" list.</div>
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<p style="text-align: left;">LOCATION: Battle Mountain, Nevada - in north central part of state</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">WEATHER: Hot. High 90. Mostly sunny, pretty light clouds</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We left our Harvest Host winery site in the early morning, then drove to a rest stop for breakfast. We drove by interesting lava fields and signs for fossil museums. There were a lot of springs flowing from the mountains.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> We had planned to stay another day in Idaho at another Harvest Host winery, but we hadn't heard back from the host. We arrived at a fork in the road where we had to decide whether to stay in Idaho or go south to Nevada. We went south, and immediatly lost cell service. Unfortunately, later we learned that there was indeed vacancy at the winery, but the owner couldn't reach us due to the lack of cell service.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Oh well - on to Nevada. We are headed toward Yosemite National Park and have to travel south to get there. We drove through 200 miles of sheer nothingness. No gas, cell service, food, motels - nothing but a few sad-looking Indian reservations. </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">We ended up here in Battle Mountain. Nothing special but the RV site has everything we need. It was good to catch up with laundry and showers. We did some online research on camping at Yosemite and to find other Harvest Hosts on our upcoming routes. It was a 260-mile day. This is our route so far on this trip, excluding our detour to Singapore and Thailand....</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The theme of the day was eating the bounty of our Harvest Host overnight stays. This was especially important due to our naughty refrigerator. For breakfast, we had salmon cakes from last night's salmon. Lunch was prime beef sandwiches, leftover from last night, too. Then, for dinner tonight we had sauteed veg from the Harvest Host farm with one of last night's potatoes. A tomato salad was on the menu, too, with the freshest tomato we have ever eaten. Unfortunately, we didn't finish everything, and tomorrow will be round 3 of the leftovers.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The sunset over the other RVs was beautiful...</p>
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karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-34526733738306115132017-09-13T13:34:00.000-07:002017-09-13T13:34:57.940-07:00September 12, 2017. Car and body check-up<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">CAMPGROUND: Snyder Winery - another Harvest Host site. Huge parking lot for the Airstream. Beautiful vineyard setting.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We awoke to a young elk careening past our window. We looked at each other and asked, "What was THAT?" He had run down the lane, and was heading toward a field. We watched him jump a couple of fences, then try to figure out how to escape from the fenced-in field. It was quite impressive.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We picked some beautiful squash, zucchini and herbs from one of the gardens.
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">WEATHER: Sunny and hot. High 86. It really cools off at night making for very pleasant sleeping.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We got an early start from the winery. We drove about 15 minutes to one of the highest passes along the highway and stopped there to make some breakfast and to enjoy the view.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">Today's drive was about 200 miles, mostly on the beautiful Salmon River Scenic Byway. We followed the Sawtooth Mountains, some still with bits of snow on the tops. There aren't any fires here, so the views were spectacular.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We couldn't believe our luck when we pulled into tonight's Harvest Host location. These pure-bred Arabians galloped toward the car to welcome us.
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We toured the farm. Lots of vegetables growing, flowers blooming, chickens roaming, goats sleeping and rabbits hopping around.
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</div>karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-47181677974743761172017-09-11T12:17:00.000-07:002017-09-11T12:17:21.927-07:00September 10, 2017. Winery camping!<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">CAMPGROUND: Trapper Peak Winery. 5 out of 5 stars, for sure! This is our 2nd Harvest Host stay. We had the barn parking lot to ourselves. Beautiful, peaceful mountain scenery. Wow!</span>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We did a few errands in Missoula, then headed south toward our next Harvest Host stay. I had called the winery yesterday to make reservations. I had to leave a message. When the host called me back, he was very apologetic about not being there to answer my first call. He described in great detail how he had been out on the range, moving his cattle from one field to another.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;"> We have reservations tomorrow night at another Harvest Host site - a winery, then another one on Monday at an organic farm. This is going to be another great twist to our Reids on the Road adventure!!!!!</div>karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-30702692121785687362017-09-09T11:22:00.000-07:002017-09-09T11:23:37.263-07:00September 8, 2017. Scenic (but smoky) drive<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">CAMPGROUND: 3rd night at Riley Creek Army Corps of Engineer Campground. 3rd night with our friends Tony and Jenny.</span></p>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">The drive took us by pristine lakes with pine trees soaring to the tops of the mountains. Unfortunately, we couldn't see much of that, due to the smoke. We'd like to return another year when there is no smoke, to compare.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">We stopped at a Park Service site that is a grove of ancient red cedar trees, some older than 500 years. The trees are beautiful. We hiked on a trail through the grove.
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<blockquote>Then, our circular route brought us back west and south to Idaho. We stopped in Hope at a restaurant aptly called The Floating Restaurant. It is on a big ramp with boats moored around it. You cannot see the lake through these boats due to the smoke.
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">DINNER: We joined forces again with Tony and Jenny, and made grilled Rueben sandwiches on the George Forman grill. Really good! </div>karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-62648390925147230832017-09-08T09:39:00.000-07:002017-09-08T09:39:59.864-07:00September 7, 2017. Smoky Idaho<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">CAMPGROUND: Another night at Riley Creek. I think I will upgrade the rating from a 4-star to a 5-star. After all, it is not the campground's fault that it is so smoky that we cannot see the adjacent lake nor is their rule that we cannot use one of the great fire rings. Also, we discovered that we can get 3 different PBS stations on TV!</span></p>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">DINNER: Since we ate so much at lunch, we had a smallish dinner of leftover refried rice bolstered by additional Asian veg. </div>karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-11725308293400986972017-09-07T11:13:00.000-07:002017-09-07T11:13:08.032-07:00September 6, 2017. Riding through the Rockies!<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">CAMPGROUND: Riley Creek Army Corps of Engineers Campground. Nice, wooded sites. Very clean bathroom. Outdoor dishwashing area. Picnic tables and fire pits. Electricity and water. $27/night, $13.50 with Senior Pass. Some sites on lake. 4 out of 5 stars.</span>
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There are more non-English speakers here than Canadians or Americans. A couple from Holland took this picture for us. We then took one for them.
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Then, to the lodge for a "meet and greet" with a great musician on the patio.
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">It is hard to believe that we started August finishing up housesits in Thailand and Singapore -followed by a trip to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. We spent a few weeks in Boise housesitting, then headed north through Canada's Okanagan Valley to Prince Rupert where we met our camper friends Tony and Jenny. From there we spent a few days in Haida Gwaii, checking off items on our mutual bucket lists. Wonderful trip. From there, we went to Hyder, Alaska to watch bears eating salmon, then back north and east to Grande Prairie, Alberta to visit with our Aunt Martha and Uncle Leo.</div>
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<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; text-align: left;">September - we will spend a few days in Jasper National Park, then meet up again with Jenny and Tony in Idaho. Our plans are a bit fuzzy for September, only including some plans to camp out in breweries/wineries through a new camp group we have joined, and then wind our way south to Yosemite National Park. </div>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Grande Prairie is a city of about 80,000 people situated in a big valley in west central Alberta</p>
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Industry seems to be geared around the oil fields, farming and logging. Today we drove about an hour north to the Peace River area. We visited historic Dunvegan, known to be a gathering place for native Indians for thousands of years. Since it is down in a valley, the temperatures are milder and many different crops are grown.
<p style="text-align: left;">Here is Martha admiring the river....</p>
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The river is high right now. This is the view from the provincial park there, quite busy today due to the Labor Day weekend..</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Adjacent to the park is a famous farm garden. We lucked out as they were having a corn fest today. Free corn on the cob!</p>
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The setting is beautiful, with hanging baskets and flowers all over. George and Leo basked in the sun while Leo finished up his ice cream cone...
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<p style="text-align: left;">On our way home, we saw this unusual site....a small airplane parked next to the highway. We assume that the pilot had to make an emergency landing here. Nothing in the news, though, about it.</p>
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Back home, we had a campfire in the firepit and enjoyed the perfect weather.
DINNER: Asian fried rice. Salad with cucumbers fresh from the garden.
Martha has taped the last season of "Call the Midwife" so we watched a few episodes. Fantastic!
karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-5005670171340924522017-09-03T07:19:00.000-07:002017-09-03T07:19:03.658-07:00September 2, 2017. Making the most out of a rainy dayLOCATION: With my Uncle Leo and Aunt Martha in Grande Prairie, Alberta
<p style="text-align: left;">WEATHER: Rain all day. The farmers need the rain (but not those out harvesting). Cool. High 60</p>
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It was a bit of a dreary day with rain most of the day. Leo picked blackcurrants and Martha made a pie out of saskatoon berries. I read and did computer work. My ankle is still swollen, and is now black and blue from the fall I had last week. Once we get to the USA, I'll probably get it x-rayed to make sure no bones are broken.
We went into town to buy supplies for an outing tomorrow with another cousin, and for our trip to Jasper. On our way home, we looked at some of the new subdivisions near Uncle Leo's farm. This is a "boom or bust" town and now it is really "booming". New houses are being built all over. There obviously is a lot of money, mostly from oil. All of these big houses have boats and huge mobile homes in their driveways.
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George washed down the Airstream as it was muddy from our trip to Stewart last week.
<p style="text-align: left;">In the afternoon, we popped popcorn and watched TV. Canadians are fascinated/appalled by Trump, so he is prominent on TV here. </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Later, I made some stir-fried rice for our outing tomorrow. </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">DINNER: Leftover ribeye steak and ribs from the steakhouse restaurant meal the other night. Pasta in butter sauce on the side plus salad and cucumbers marinated in yogurt. </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The rain stopped and we watched a glorious sunset.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">WEATHER: Very windy. High around 70</p>
Today's plan was a lunch trip to a Norwegian community about an hour away. The fields are so beautiful. Many crops have already been harvested.
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Valhalla is a tiny community settled by Norwegians. The Historical Society has refurbished the old mercentile buidling and converted it to a cafe. It is known for its wonderful, home-made food. We each had a hearty bowl of soup with homemade bread.
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George ordered a piece of home-made saskatoon pie...
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<p style="text-align: left;">And LOVED it!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">On our way home, we stopped in another town called Beaver Lodge. Lots of small towns in Alberta have some sort of statue or other funny landmark attracting tourists. This guy looks a little evil to me....</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">We visited an art gallery there showcasing a local famous painter who had just died. Then, back to Grande Prairie. </p>
This is the business that my cousin (Martha and Leo's son) owns and runs. It is a company that distributes tools and supplies to the oilfields up north. It is a huge business and he does quite well. It is called a "hot shot".
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We picked up our Airstream from the RV shop. They "sort of" fixed the refrigerator. It is a bit cooler than before, but the freezer is still not cold enough to make ice.
<p style="text-align: left;">George grilled some chicken for dinner.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">DINNER: Grilled chicken, grilled celery (George's invention), and leftovers from the restaurant dinner - potatoes, broccoli, mushrooms and Yorkshire pudding. </p>
karmenrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822840026315740726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274412644284063602.post-41475265983802569102017-09-01T07:30:00.000-07:002017-09-01T07:30:45.597-07:00August 31, 2017. Getting things done in Grande PrairieLOCATION: With Uncle Leo and Aunt Martha at their home in Grande Prairie, Alberta
<p style="text-align: left;">WEATHER: Very windy, but pleasant. High about 70</p>
We got up early to take the Airstream into an RV dealer/shop to see if they can repair the refrigerator. Great customer service.
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I did some more work on the computer. I lined up a campground in northern Idaho for the time after our visit to Jasper. We will meet up with friends Tony and Jenny again. Campgrounds still are very busy, even after Labor Day.
Martha went shopping and bought us some beer brewed in Grande Prairie...
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Then, in the evening, we met up with some of Leo and Martha's children (my cousins) for dinner at a rib and steakhouse.
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It was great getting together with them. We ate too much!
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