In late January, I was excited to start the next leg of my travels because I would be visiting parts of Texas I’d never seen before but before leaving the Dallas area, I wanted to have some service work done on the trailer. I was coming up on my one-year anniversary with it so it was prudent to get the brakes and suspension checked, the bearings greased and a few minor repairs. McClain’s RV, the dealer I bought it from,…
MISSOURI On November 1, I arrived in the Hannibal, Missouri area to explore all the locations made famous in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I don’t think I ever read these books when I was young so I read them before arriving and everything was fresh in my mind. I had a reservation for two weeks at Woodzy Acres RV Park, located 8 miles south of downtown Hannibal but once I got…
After recovering from my pulled hamstring, I headed north to photograph lighthouses on Lake Winnebago. I had originally planned to go up Door Peninsula (Green Bay) where there are quite a few lighthouses but my injury forced me to cancel that leg of the trip. Maybe on another pass through this area. WISCONSIN I arrived at Kalbus Country Harbor in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on October 1, 2019. This small RV park is located right on Lake Winnebago and would have offered…
INDIANA After spending a few days recovering from an incredible and exhausting lighthouse photography workshop on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on Sunday, August 25, I packed up and headed south to Indiana to attend a rally hosted by my trailer’s manufacturer. Rallies are very popular in the RV world with groups getting together who share common interests—anything from sports, social groups or those with the same make of camper, which is what I was doing. But first, I had…
After a month in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on my own, my lighthouse photography friends joined me for a four-day lighthouse workshop with Lerro Productions. If you’ve read my previous blogs, you know I do these trips about once a year. They’re intense and exhausting, logging unimaginable miles on little sleep to get some amazing photos. I do my best work on these workshops because we get access to locations when the average person cannot—like all night from sunset…
I reentered the U.S.A. on July 17, spending a week at Brimley State Park. The park sits on the shore of Lake Superior near Sault Ste. Marie on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. There were several Grand Design Reflections in the park during my stay and three of us were neighbors. I love seeing other Grand Design owners and usually introduce myself and act as a brand greeting committee of sorts. Brimley State Park is a beautiful location on Lake Superior. Three…
On June 17, I crossed over the border from the Thousand Islands of New York into Canada for a 30-day trip through Ontario to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I drove along the north shore of Lake Ontario to a KOA campground just west of Toronto. There are a couple lighthouses that I wanted to photograph at this end of the lake. My deluxe site at the KOA near Toronto. Yes, sometimes you actually get patio furniture and a gas…
FINGER LAKES I stayed at Flint Creek Campgrounds in Middlesex, New York in the fall of 2017 and was really happy to have the opportunity to return for a week. The owner Beth is wonderful and makes everyone feel at home. If you recall from my previous visit here, I have a friend living in the area and I had a great time visiting her again. Christine and I were neighbors in New Jersey and our daughters are close friends….
Since upgrading my motorhome to my new Fifth Wheel trailer in March, I’ve been dying to show it off so I decided to make a detour from my route to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and head back to New Jersey (once again). This was an uneventful 835-mile drive from Kentucky to New Jersey with two one-night stops along the way. I got to my friend Mark’s house in Beachwood, New Jersey and let him back the trailer into his driveway because…
The first week of April this year, I moved to Leroy Percy State Park in Hollandale, Mississippi with plans to spend a week relaxing in the woods and visiting the battlefield at Vicksburg. I had been experiencing rain for months now and it wasn’t giving up yet. Consequently, I spent much of my time sitting indoors reading. Leroy Percy is a small state park with only 16 RV sites but they all have water, electric and sewer hookups, which is…