Please help me… send you… my weekly email messages and stay out of spam detention. I hate spam email. Sending you a simple weekly email, to alert you about my newest blog post, is getting difficult. I will outline how you can help me send my email later. Let me explain the problem I have been […]
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Is our RV falling apart? It sure seems that way. is the sky falling? I don’t think so.
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You have too many solar panels! This should shed some light on our RV solar installation. How did we design our RV solar and battery system? This was a comment in an email pertaining to our Zamp Obsidian Solar Install. The comment wasn’t as direct as my title statement but was made with good intent.
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How to Plan (and take) an epic RV trip through Alaska. This is going to be a deep dive into planning and making an epic RV trip through Alaska. What did we like, what did we tolerate, was it worth it, and what did we think about each place? What should you skip or minimize
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How to Plan (and Take) an Epic RV Trip across Canada to Alaska. This is going to be part one of a two-part story. The second part will be about how to plan an RV trip through Alaska. We have lots of recommendations about how to plan an RV Trip across Canada to Alaska. I
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In our group, traveling to and from Alaska, we chose to use RV Trip Wizard software because it has great features. Planning with RV Trip Wizard is easy. You can use RV Trip Wizard on any computing device, including your phone. And RV Trip Wizard software is powerful. The more information you include during your
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We traveled more than 500 miles with an engine problem through the most remote part of British Columbia. We loved our Alaska trip, but not everything was perfect. This story is about our engine problem and how we got it repaired. Not all sunshine and roses Having an engine problem after 100,000 miles on a
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Where is the wildest part of Canada? The Cassiar Highway is the wildest part of Canada. I know last week I was amusing you with my visit to the hospital but I’m not done telling stories about our trip to Alaska. Of course, we had to cross Canada both northbound and again southbound and we
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(Fast RV internet data news release January 16, 2024) Peplink becomes Starlink Authorized Technology Provider. This is the newest news in Fast RV mobile internet. The combination allows Starlink software and routers to pair with Peplink’s SD-WAN routers. The combination is available as a new bundled service as of January 16, 2024, that includes the
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That is what they told me at the hospital… You can’t leave, you have pneumonia. What kind of travel adventure is that? Well, I can tell you it isn’t a typical travel story. But since we travel full-time, we take the good adventures with the bad ones, and if there is a story, and assuming
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Stories about the Klondike Gold Rush are the reason that people remember Skagway. Skagway was a boomtown run by gangsters that was wild almost beyond belief. The gangsters owned the law. Skagway was the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Our epic 2023 travel adventure took us further north and south than ever before, and in 2023, we also went further in less time than ever. I haven’t yet finished telling you about our summer adventure to Alaska, and it is already the holiday season. We visited the most remote places, and for the first
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The best full-service campground of our 2024 trip to Alaska was Discovery Yukon Lodgings. This includes both Alaska and Canada. We were lucky that we stopped. It is a big mistake to bypass this wonderful campground. We liked it so much on our northbound trip to Alaska that we extended our stay on our southbound
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During the last week of August, we were back on the Alaska Highway, this time heading southbound on the Alaska Highway. The days are much shorter than during our first visit in June. Still in August, even all night long, even with sunset after 10 PM, it never gets dark at night. It never gets
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The last train departed Kennecott in 1938 never to return again. It was an overnight ghost town, everyone was gone except for one last family. The mine was closed forever. In thirty years the most productive copper mine in Alaska played out. The copper was gone. The mill was empty and the only watchman lived
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We went deep into the ice flows at the Columbia Glacier on the Lu-Lu Belle in mid-August during our exploration of Alaska. It was full of surprises including wildlife
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Valdez is the most important city in Alaska. Of all the places we visited in Alaska, Valdez is my favorite. Of course, that is just my opinion and it is viewed from my perspective. I think that if you don’t visit Valdez when you are in Alaska it is a big mistake. Split opinion We
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More than ten thousand years ago the Matanuska Glacier ended in the ocean where it combined with the Knik Glacier and formed the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet north of Anchorage. As the glacier receded, it left the Matanuska Valley and Matanuska River as a testament to its size and power. Where the glacier once
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At Tern Lake, the only highway on the Kenai Peninsula splits in two directions. In one direction, Seward is at the end of the road, and in the other direction lies Homer. The road was built starting in Seward leading north to Anchorage, long before the Sterling highway connected the highway to Homer via Sterling.
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Are Grizzly Bears the same as Brown Bears? Is Grizzly Bear just a nickname? It is an interesting question. Really this story is about our visit to Katmai National Park. There are no roads leading to Katmai National Park. How did we get to visit Katmai National Park when we live in our RV? Before
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Alaskan Brown Bears (Grizzly Bears by nickname) are the attraction at Katmai National Park. Brooks Falls is the number one place in the world to see them. These wild bears gather at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park to feast on salmon. When the bears are at Brooks Falls, they are focused on one thing
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Halibut Cove is one of a kind. In all our travels we have not ever been to any place like this. Our visit was wonderful. At Halibut Cove there are no cars or roads. Halibut Cove is located 12 miles south of Homer on the south side of Kachemak Bay. Halibut Cove is located between
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The Allstays RV Trip Planning Tool is a great reference tool for finding RV campsites. We use the Allstays RV Trip Planning Tool to find campsites every time we decide on a new stop. Allstays shows us campsites of all kinds across the nation. The information is accurate and updated frequently. So far we have
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Homer is the furthest southwest point in Alaska that we can go in our RV without getting a very expensive ferry involved. The Homer Spit is south of Homer. There are roads in Alaska, south of Homer but, these roads are not connected to the road system on the Alaskan mainland. In some cases, they
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Our visit to Monterey was great. This is a photo and video review of Monterey. Monterey Bay is one of those places where it is easy to take beautiful photos. We need to go back. Some places are so perfect that you don’t need a lot of words to describe it. Revised September 2023 to
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Alaska’s playground is the Kenai Peninsula. The Kenai Peninsula is the place Alaskans go to play. It is a very popular place, especially among Alaskans. In our travels from state to state, we often see RVers who are visiting different states. In Alaska, most of the RVs we see are from Alaska. My estimate is
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It is beautiful in Whittier (Alaska). I was going to say prettier in Whittier to make it rhyme but resisted the temptation. It is not always beautiful in Whittier, you have to time your visit. First, you need to visit in the summer, and you have to visit on a good day in the summer,
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Russia sold Alaska to the United States for one simple reason. Russia sold Alaska because Russia needed cash and the United States had cash. Although Canada would seem to be the logical choice, for Russia, selling Alaska to Canada wasn’t an option. Russia didn’t want to sell Alaska to Canada. Canada was part of the
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There are many large, dangerous animals in Alaska. We have seen large dangerous animals frequently on our route here in Alaska. In Denali National Park, we really started seeing how wild Alaska can be. At Denali, we saw numerous Grizzly Bears. Sometimes they were really close to us. Three of the following pictures of mom
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Harvest Host One of the questions we often get asked is how do we like Harvest Host? Yes, we have a Harvest Host membership. We love staying at Harvest Host locations. Harvest Host membership for us gives us low-price options when we are moving larger distances. When we are in travel mode an overnight stop
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Denali is huge, more than 20,000 feet tall, and most visitors to Denali National Park never see it. Did we see it? How can you be sure to see it during your visit? There is no reason to be coy; you already know that we saw Denali during our visit based on the above picture.
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We didn’t see any sunsets in Fairbanks. Actually, we haven’t seen a sunset since we were in Canada. The sun did set when we were in Fairbanks but, we didn’t see any sunsets in Fairbanks. We didn’t stay up late enough to see any sunsets. If you stay awake until the wee hours of the
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America The Beautiful Pass is sometimes known as Interagency Pass. There are several different passes all similar all with some differences. Do you need one? Do you need more than one? Who can have one? How to get one and why do I want one? I can’t answer the previous questions for you. I can
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Where is the end of the Alaska Highway? I guess it depends on who you ask. The southern end of the Alaska Highway is in Dawson Creek. The northern end of the Alaska Highway isn’t so easy to define. One thing is sure, the border from Canada into Alaska is not the end of the
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On our Alaska trip, we crossed the Yukon on the Alaska Highway. It has been a wonderful drive on a horrible road. This road has always been horrible. Much of it is a nonstop pothole. This section of the Alaska Highway crossing the Yukon was the hardest to build and the hardest to maintain. Every
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After three hundred miles, we are still on the Alaska Highway, heading west from Fort Nelson and climbing into the Northern Rockies on the Alaska Highway. The road is getting steeper, with more scenic views of mountaintops covered with snow fields. Wild animals along the route are more numerous and bigger. Views of the lakes
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After crossing Alberta and northern British Columbia we are now going north on the Alaska Highway heading to Fairbanks. So far the road is great. The Alaska Highway starts in Dawson Creek and connects Canada to Alaska. Before the Alaska Highway, the only way to get to Alaska was by plane or boat. The acronym
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The road is closed and the wildfires are between us and Alaska. We need a route around the wildfires. Our schedule is shot. Campgrounds are closed. The good news is that because we started our reroute around the wildfires near Edmonton, we have options. If this were to happen further north on the Alaska Highway,
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We are crossing Canada to Alaska and have to overcome numerous obstacles along our way. We’ve had trouble starting in and crossing Canada. These obstacles were not anticipated, and most of them we can’t do anything about. Our troubles crossing Canada are the reason we didn’t publish last week’s blog update. Some of our troubles
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The Lost Dutchman Museum isn’t on the sign anymore. Now it is the Superstition Mountain Museum. The Superstition Mountain Museum tells the facts and the myths about the Old West including about the Lost Dutchman and the Lost Dutchman Mine. A little to the east of the Goldfield in Apache Junction, right on Apache Trail
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This is a plea for help. Our RV is broken. As I write this, two of our RV slideouts won’t move. Our RV has four slides. Two of our RV slideouts won’t move. As a quick reference to anyone who might have an idea about a solution, we have a 2008 Tiffin Bus on a
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South of Tucson, in an empty desert, the United States dug a hole in the ground to protect a Titan Missile. This costly hole is now home to the Titan Missile Museum. Almost seventy years later, the previously empty desert is occupied by numerous cities, and the retired missile is on display inside the museum.
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It is all in the name. Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. Except it isn’t a museum. It is more like a zoo, but it isn’t really a zoo, it is a botanical garden with a zoo. It has some history like a museum but isn’t focused on history. It was unlike a museum in so many
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Ancient Casa Grande ruins are south of one of the branches of the Gila River. Here the Hohokam people built an extensive network of canals, farms, and cities. In 1694 Father Kino, working his way along the trading routes toward modern-day Phoneix, first documented the ruins of a great four-story high adobe structure. Father Kino
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Johnny Cloud (owner of the Cloud Museum) told me his father first purchased a Ford Model TT truck for their farm south of Yuma. (Pictured above) Then he drove it for at least a million miles when he was only eight years old. Now, this Ford Model TT truck is the star attraction at the
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We had an RV suspension problem. Our silky smooth, even floaty RV ride was getting bouncy. I was convinced that we needed new shock absorbers. We needed professional help, professional RV suspension expert help. Henderson’s RV suspension experts helped us get the bounce out at Henderson’s Line-up. Here is the story about what caused the
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How to tow a car behind an RV. Depending on your RV and how you RV, knowing how to tow a car behind your RV is a very important decision. If you pick a trailer then you know what you are going to tow. If you choose a motorhome then the question is how to
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It has been a wet winter in California and when that happens the desert in eastern San Diego County changes. We went seeking early spring flowers in the Anza-Borrego desert. In the summer, in the desert, I look past the small patches of dry vegetation surrounded by sand and instead focus on the dramatic views.
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Food Desert — Not in Tucson! As we travel we often encounter both outstanding food choices and food deserts. Tucson is not a food desert. In fact, our anniversary dinner uncovered a great downtown restaurant. Great downtown restaurants alone would not create a blog post. We have been to lots of great downtown restaurants. However,
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Classic Rotors is a unique aircraft museum in Ramona, California. One-of-a-kind refers both to the museum and the helicopters. The museum is dedicated to rescuing one-of-a-kind and unique historically significant helicopters. The all-volunteer museum staff brings these historic aircraft back to flying condition and then flies them. They have several one-of-a-kind helicopters, and some are
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