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Fall Colors in the Columbia River Gorge
We took the trailer down to Oregon this past weekend for our last camping trip of the season. We stayed at Memaloose State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. The weather was cool and damp, so we didn’t do much in the way of outside activities, but I thoroughly enjoyed the fall colors! We enjoyed some down time just playing…
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Lum & Abner
One of my [many] hobbies is listening to and collecting Old Time Radio Shows. Hands down, my all-time favorite show is Lum & Abner, which ran almost daily for over 20 years. I have all the existing recorded episodes on MP3, but there are a lot of gaps of “lost shows”. When I found out that this book [of mostly…
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Grand Coulee
We camped this past weekend near Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It’s about 2.5 hours from here. We had stopped there on our way home from Seattle earlier this summer, and learned about a laser light show that is projected against the wall of the dam on summer nights (through September), so we decided that would be a fun place…
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Priest Lake
We had planned to go camping up to Priest Lake this past weekend, and then do some Geocaching around the lake on Saturday. We had the trailer all loaded and ready to pull out when my husband got home from work on Friday afternoon. As we drove down the street he commented that it seemed to be leaning funny, so…
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Camping in the Mountains
We had a very relaxing weekend camping close to home this time. It was a Forest Service campground, so no hookups, but we didn’t mind. The kids even decided to put up their tent and sleep in it. The only down side was that there is a Stage 2 burn ban on right now, which means that we couldn’t have…
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In Which We Visit Glacier
We visited Glacier National Park in August 2007. Unlike Yellowstone, I can't figure out why I didn't blog about it at the time. I took plenty of pictures and I had several other blog posts that that month. There is just no excuse.
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Another Fun Weekend
This past weekend we drove over to Bozeman, Montana to hang out with King Tut! The Museum of the Rockies is currently hosting the traveling King Tut exhibit. We had noticed billboards about it coming back from vacation a couple of weeks ago, so decided to make a weekend excursion to visit the museum. Lyle also wanted to visit the American…
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Iowa and Missouri
Another easy day. Hot and muggy in the mid-west! Probably not as hot as it could be, the humidity about knocks us over, coming from the drier northwest. We stayed at a state park near Columbia, Missouri. Arrived in the middle of the day, so had time to relax a bit in the air-conditioned trailer before Lyle and the kids went…
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Minnesota
An easy day on the road. And state #37 for me (not on this trip… in my lifetime!). We deliberately chose this route to add a couple of new states to the map on the side of our trailer. Walnut Grove did offer a more reasonably priced tour of their Laura Ingalls Wilder museum than did De Smet. Of course, none…
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South Dakota
From Jamestown, North Dakota we headed south to South Dakota on a two-lane highway. This is the first time we’ve traveled off the interstate since we left home. We like getting off the beaten path, so that was an enjoyable drive. As we came in Aberdeen, South Dakota I noticed a billboard advertising Storybook Land. The billboard said it was…
