Billy and Sandra

We left the lovely Wassamki Springs and headed for Acadia National Park further up the Maine Coast. After a pleasant drive through some very quaint scenery we arrived at Acadia. As usual our first task was to find our campground and setup camp. With this done we started exploring the park. We visited the only sand beach in the park and whilst the sun was shining and in the car it felt warm, there was a cold breeze coming off an even colder sea so swimming was out of the question. After that we continued our drive around the park and it really is a very beautiful place, rugged in places with the rocky shoreline overlooked by numerous hills. We had dedicated the next day to doing some walks and had planned on walking up the ... read more

Our final morning in Yosemite we awoke to gathering clouds. Fortunately, once again, we got the tent down and packed away before the rain started. From Yosemite we were heading south to Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park. We had hoped that we would be able to drive through or around the weather and for the most part we did. We weren’t quite sure what to expect from this National Park. We expected the sequoia part of it to have big trees but the Kings Canyon bit of it was a complete unknown. I was aware that there are 2 entrances to the park but there was a chance that the Kings Canyon entrance road may be closed due to snow so we headed for the south entrance into the Sequoia part of the park. We ... read more

We left Reno and headed for Lake Tahoe, knowing we only had about a 2 hours drive, we had plenty of time to explore the area (or so we thought......). It did not take us long to leave Nevada and before we knew it we were back in California. Soon we were winding our way up the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it was beautiful and that was before we even got to Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in America and it really was something to see - azure blue surrounded by snow-capped Sierra Nevada Mountains. We have seen many beautiful things in our travels and this was one more to add to our ever growing list. It almost felt like we were in the Alps, it had that sort of atmosphere. I was ... read more

We left Crater Lake on a wonderfully sunny morning and were looking forward to going back into California. We were heading for the Redwood National Park which is in the Northern part of California, just out of Oregon. The drive down was very scenic and was only added to by the wonderful weather we were experiencing. As we entered California we started winding our way through Redwood forests that formed part of the state parks. We were staying in the Elk Prairie Creek Campground and when we arrived we found a nice little site nestled amongst the trees with a river running nearby. After we had setup camp we headed out to explore the Redwood forests in greater depth. We took a walk around the Lady Johnson Grove in the National Park. There was a pleasant ... read more

From Laurel, Montana we had a shortish drive to Yellowstone National Park. We would be going through the North entrance as it is one of the 3 entrances that are open at this time of the year and also it is the closest to the campground we would be staying in. The weather on our drive in was pleasant with sunny skies but a fairly strong breeze. When we arrived we decided to find a campsite and set up our tent 1st. We would be staying in the Mammoth campground. The campground was decent with the sites spreadout nicely and the toilets being clean and heated. There are no showers in the campground but there are in the nearby hotel - when the hotel is open. As it is still early in the season the hotel ... read more