Blogs from United States, North America - page 24

For a completely unplanned drive, we are doing amazingly well! (Except for the Toby jug grrr!) Just finished watching the Bournemouth vs Arsenal match at The Coffee Shop in Price, UT. The barista there is amazing, she made us feel very welcome and let us just sit, charge and watch football. We have both drunk a lot of coffee so we are off to Nine Mile Canyon to look at some petroglyphs!... read more

We're playing catch up here. We are busy travelling or just having fun during the day to blog, sorry, and our night stops are in the middle of nowhere with no signal. Where have we been? All the fun outdoor places of course. If there's a hill we'll climb it of there's a trail we'll walk it. Oregon is an adults playground. We left Bend after a saunter along the Deschutes river walk, and a visit to Pilot Butte, 380 feet volcanic cone down town 1 mile hike up and down with 360 views across the Cascade mountains. Bend is very progressive, kinda hipster place with lots of micro breweries and independent coffee shops. Apparently its full of Californians who live here and work remotely. It is beautiful. Bend was originally a timber milling town with ... read more

Die schlechte Nachricht zuerst: wir haben keine Wölfe gesehen ;-) Und das war es auch schon mit den "schlechten" Nachrichten. Zunächst einmal haben wir sehr viel Sonnenschein, und mit Sonne sieht alles einfach viel schöner aus. Die Teton Range ist eine sehr schöne Bergkette mit immerhin 2 Viertausendern und einigen sehenswerten Canyons, in denen man prima wandern kann, außerdem ein paar hübschen Flüssen und Bächen sowie einigen Seen im Tal und weiter oben in den Bergen. Und dann die Tierwelt: das ist einfach phänomenal! Die Tiere scheinen diese Gegend genauso attraktiv zu finden wie wir. Gleich beim Reinfahren in den Park sind wir im ersten Stau durch kriminell parkende Autos - ein untrügliches Zeichen für Tiersichtungen. Und tatsächlich grast in großer Entfernung ein Grizzly auf einer Wiese vor einem Wäldchen, mit Fernglas gut zu beobachten. Juchhu, ... read more

After our stay in Austin, we continued eastbound by going north first to Weatherford, a city just north of Fort Worth, to visit Natalie’s cousin. Neither of us have many relatives left, so we try to stay connected. It is so great to lay eyes on their new home and hear their plans to make it their own. They are RVers too, so they are a great resource to talk with and get new ideas. One thing about visiting friends and relatives is they know the best places to eat. We had fantastic BBQ at the Natty Flat BBQ in Weatherford. The BBQ restaurants go to great efforts to create their own unique character and it’s Interesting to experience their efforts. This one had the world’s largest cedar rocker outside and was very rustic inside. (Side ... read more

We collected our moho on Friday and headed east towards Bend where we stayed for 3 days. We had a "quick" stop at Walmart which took 1 hrs and 20 minutes for groceries. After 90 miles of driving we stopped at Detroit Lake State forest recreation area at 5pm. Joni and Jim the camp hosts were great and gave us a spot right next to the lake. The Lake is a dammed river which they use for recreational purposes during the summer. About now they start to open the dam intime for winter rain to fill it up. Oregon don't do ordinary roads they have scenic Byways and our journey took us through two. They do what they say on the tin supply stunning scenery. We travelled along Cascades scenic byway through McKenzie Pass-Santiam Pass scenic ... read more