One of the best things about living the RV Life is getting to visit National Parks! But if you’re new to exploring these wonderful places, we have a couple of tips to share from our experiences over the last 5 years. Here are 5 tips to RV National Parks. Tip #1 – Get an Interagency […]
Leaving Alaska Via Haines Highway & Skagway
After nearly 5 months on the road in our Lance 1172 truck camper, we left mainland Alaska and crossed back into Canada. Mid-September was a beautiful time to drive the Haines Highway and take the Alaska Marine Highway to Skagway. Go North Episode 18 – Leaving Alaska South on the Alaska Highway Mid-September brought cooler […]
Denali – The Jewel of Alaska National Parks
Throughout history, attitudes toward wilderness have not always been favorable. Regarded as places of darkness, mystery, wild beasts, and confusion, the beauty of nature was seen only in what was useful. It wasn’t until much more recently that these places were widely considered beautiful and necessary for simply being what they are. Now, many people […]
8 Reasons to Visit Banff & Jasper National Parks Early
When we made our plans to visit Banff and Jasper National Parks along our route to Alaska, we weren’t really thinking about timing – as in, what the weather was going to be like there. More so, how many of the gorgeous emerald green and blue lakes were going to be thawed by time we […]
RV Travels Through California, Oregon, & Washington
Our summer 2017 was jam-packed with new places. We hit 7 National Parks and 1 National Monument as our RV travels took us through California, Oregon, and Washington. While they were not new states—we’d hit them all coming south the previous fall—we hit new regions of these states with only minor overlap. RV Travels, May […]
Joshua Tree National Park
Interestingly, Joshua Tree National Park was going to be called Desert Plants National Park. While maybe not as “fun” of a name, we learned during our time here that the latter would have been a very fitting name for the number of interesting desert plants we did find here. But it was the widely publicized […]