Campsite Review: Lake Elsinore West Marina Campground is on the northwest end of Lake Elsinore, California. It is not a good fit for us. We are not going back. From Interstate 15 take State Route 74 west for two miles and then make a left turn into the campground. As State Route 74 passes under
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Campsite Review: Desert Eagle Campground is located on Nellis Air Force Base northeast of Las Vegas south of Interstate 15. It is a very nice place. Coming from Las Vegas go north on Interstate 15 and exit on eastbound Tropical Parkway. Then turn south on North Sloan Lane and turn southwest on Las Vegas Boulevard
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Can you run your RV Air conditioner on Solar and Batteries? We have the test results. The quick answer is yes you can. We have proved that it is possible. This update includes testing data with some surprises. These surprises are not encouraging and show how hard this is and why this is so hard.
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Lakes, mountains, and deserts. Since our last update, we have made a big move through Utah. We were worried about the onset of winter, but not anymore. We are now in the desert, and it is plenty warm (hot). Winter can come at any time in the higher elevations in Utah. For the last two
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Campsite Review: Quail Creek Campground is on the west end of Quail Creek Reservoir, near Saint George, Utah. It is a nice place. The best way to get here from Interstate 15 is to exit on Utah Highway 9 eastbound, then turn north on State Road 318, also known as 5300 West. The nearest city
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Campsite Review: Mountain Valley Campground is located on U.S. Highway 40, just south of Heber City, Utah. It is a very nice place. Starting in Heber City go south of the main intersection on U.S. Highway 40 for less than one mile and make a right turn into the resort. The reception has room to
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Parley’s Canyon – Bad Roads for RVs is on Interstate 80, east of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the Rocky Mountains and I would agree. It goes double for steep roads in
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Provo Canyon – Bad Roads for RVs is on U.S. Highway 189, four miles west of Heber City, Utah. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the Rocky Mountains and I would agree. It goes double for steep
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Wellsville Canyon – Bad Roads for RVs is on U.S. Highway 89/ U.S. Highway 91, two miles north Dry Lake. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. This is part of the descent from Sardine Summit. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the Rocky
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Box Elder Canyon – Bad Roads for RVs is on U.S. Highway 89/ U.S. Highway 91, east of Brigham City, Utah. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. This is part of the descent from Sardine Summit. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the
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Jordanelle Heber Valley Descent – Bad Roads for RVs is on U.S. Highway 40/ U.S. Highway 189, twelve miles north of Heber City, Utah. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. In the summer it is a long descent to Heber City with only a few turns and is easy enough for
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Campsite Review: Hyrum Lake State Park Campground is at the south end of Hyrum 20 six miles south of Logan, Utah. It is a very nice place. The campground is located south of Utah Highway 101 at the end of South 400 West. The nearest city with multiple grocery stores is Logan. The campsite has
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Bear Lake Summit – Bad Roads for RVs is on U.S. Highway 89, seven miles west of Garden City, Utah. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the Rocky Mountains and I would agree. It goes double for
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It has been quiet at the lake, well at least it was quiet, and it will be quiet at the lake again — soon. Our travels have taken us south at a rapid pace with the change of seasons. Winter arrived in the west on Labor Day. Labor Day, the last day of summer isn’t
Campsite Review: Jefferson County Lake Campground is west of U.S. Highway 20 two miles north of Rigby, Idaho. It is a very nice place. After departing the U.S. Highway 20 turn west on Farnsworth Way then turn right at North 4000 East and the next right on Rigby Lake Drive. Rigby Lake Drive will end
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Jerome AZ-89A – Bad Roads for RVs is located on Arizona Highway 89A and goes through Jerome Arizona. This road is crazy steep, two lanes with hairpin turns. This is probably the worst paved road in Arizona for an RV and might be the worst paved through-road in the western United States. You should visit
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Elk Park Pass is on Interstate 15, five miles north of Butte, Montana. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. The descent starts just south of Exit 133 in the middle of a huge grassy valley (Elk Park). Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in
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Campsite Review: Beavertail Hill Campground is south of Interstate 90 twenty-five miles east of Missoula Montana. After departing the Interstate turn south on Bonita Station Road for less than one mile. The campground is along a bend in the Clark Fork River which flows westward to the Columbia River. The Lewis and Clark Expedition followed
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MacDonald Pass is on U.S. Highway 12, thirteen miles east of Helena, Montana. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the northern Rocky Mountains and I would agree. It goes double for steep roads in the winter. In
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Montana’s Big Sky motto is obvious everywhere we look. Big Sky is stunning. The longer we stay in Montana, the more we love it. All that may change during tomorrow’s cold snap. We love the size and everything about Montana. This is our second year (in a row) visiting Montana. Last year we crossed Montana,
Snippet: Cell Phone Jammer–You wouldn’t look at this and think that you are looking at a cell phone jammer. But, you would be wrong. This is a cell phone jammer and I tested it and it works perfectly, or rather it jammed our cell phone signal when we didn’t want it jammed. Of course, I
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Campsite Review: Placid Lake Campground is west of Montana Highway 83, five miles south of Seeley Lake on the shore of Placid Lake. To get to the campground exit Highway 83 on Placid Lake Road for two miles then make a left turn on South Placid Lake Road and then an immediate right turn on
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Lookout Pass is on Interstate 90, Montana exit ninety-six miles west of Missoula, Montana. It is steep and should be avoided in the winter. Lookout Pass is at the border between Montana and Idaho, on the continental divide. Just south of the pass is the Lookout Pass Ski Area. Just east of the pass (south
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FoxRVTravel-Snippet: Montana State Parks Pass is for non-Montana Residents. Should you get a Montana State Parks Pass? How much will it cost? Will it save you money? How do you get one and how do you use it. We didn’t figure this out right away. But it was clear the first time we looked at
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Glacier National Park is Majestic. We only saw maybe ten percent of the total area. It was super in every way. Spring was in full bloom in the last part of August. The snow melted off the high country only a couple of weeks before our arrival. We had perfect timing and didn’t have to
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Campsite Review: Holland Lake Campground is east of Montana Highway 83, fifty-five miles south of Big Fork, and twenty miles north of Seeley Lake. It is operated by the Forest Service and is on the north side of Holland Lake. From Montana Highway 83 turn east on Holland Lake Road for almost three miles. We really
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Campsite Review: Wayfarers/Flathead Campground is on Montana Highway 35 just south of Big Fork Montana on the shore of Flathead Lake, just south of the inlet of the Swan River. The nearest city with services is Kalispell. The campsite has 27 campsites for RVs and tents and a boat ramp with dock. The website says
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Campsite Review: Sundance Campground is six miles to the south of the West Glacier entrance to Glacier National Park. It is located north of the tiny town of Coram and the slightly larger town of Hungry Horse on Highway 2. Hungry Horse is big enough to have a post office so I can’t explain why
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Micro-Air EasyStart… RV Air conditioners are hard to start. The Micro-Air EasyStart fixes that. I need EasyStart to run my AC from solar. For us, it is all part of our solar electrical remodel, which is how we’ll power our air conditioners using our batteries. Without this EasyStart, running our air conditioners from our inverter
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Teton Pass is on Highway 22 in Wyoming between Victor Idaho and Jackson Wyoming. This is a bad road for an RV. Summer or winter. Trailers are not allowed on Teton Pass in the winter. Also in the winter turnouts are often packed with snow and snowplows. Details Elevation: 8429 feet Length: 17 miles Terrain:
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Boondocking without solar, we have done that before but never have we done it this easily. Our battery system is holding us into the second day without recharging so it has met the design goal of two days without sunshine. We now have thirty days of boondocking without solar (so far this summer) to prove
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Campsite Review: Tally Lake Campground is at the north corner of the Tally Lake. Tally Lake is at about the halfway point on Tally Lake Road. You get there from the north by turning south on Tally Lake Road from Star Meadow Road. Or you could get there from the southeast by turning west on
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Most people would say Montana is remote. We are now remote in Montana and more remote than most people ever experience in their life. We have been remote before and we like — remote. Here the nearest city is only twenty miles if you flew to get there. Flying to get there from here would
Campsite Review: Montana Basecamp Campground is at the south end of Kalispell Montana north of Flathead Lake and southwest of Glacier National Park. The RV park is located at the corner of Highway 93 and south Highway 93 (Alt). This location is very convenient. Highway 93 (Alt) is a bypass type highway that routes traffic around
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4th of July Summit – Bad Roads for RVs is on Interstate 90 east of Coeur d’Alene Idaho. this road is steep and should be avoided in the winter. Of course, you could say that RVs should avoid traveling in the winter in the northern Rocky Mountains and I would agree. It goes double for
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Kootenai County Idaho Highway 97 – Bad Roads for RVs is located between Coeur d’Alene and Harrison along the east side of Lake Coeur d’Alene. The road along the east side of Lake Coeur d’Alene is narrow and while following the lake edge winds the for 25 miles — non-stop. Assuming your destination is anywhere
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The beauty of northern Idaho is stunning. We have spent the last three weeks surrounded by these splendid mountains. We will be back soon. The lakes and mountains are fabulous. The lakes are huge and the water is so clear. What I didn’t know before arriving is that that northern Idaho is more related to
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Campsite Review: Bell Bay Campground is at the end of Bell Bay Road three miles west of Highway 97. This is a simple description. Not so simple. Getting to Bell Bay isn’t really all that easy. Bell Bay Campground is at about the half way point on the east shore of Lake Cour d’Alene. There
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Campsite Review: Kootenai County Campground is at the very north edge of Cour d’Alene on Dalton Avenue two blocks east of Highway 95. On the north side of Dalton Avenue is the suburb of Dalton Gardens. The cities of Cour d’Alene and Dalton Gardens have grown to merge into one suburb. The terrain was farmland
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Campsite Review: Sam Owen Campground, Lake Pend Oreille is located just to the east of Hope, Idaho along Highway 200 on the Hope Peninsula. Sam Owen Campground is operated by the Forest Service and is on the southwest shore of the Peninsula. The nearest city big enough to have most services is Sandpoint. Sam Owen
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Thomas Hammer Coffee. This is an interesting happening in our travels. For the first time in my life, I think that an advertising gadget worked — on me. Over the years I have picked up pounds of these trinkets at trade shows and I can’t think of anything that I purchased based on a trinket.
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Our journey is taking a right turn and our must-see destination is not in northeast Washington, but rather starts in the Cascades crosses the state eastward and gets real pretty again in Idaho. This year we are going to Coeur d’ALene area, east of Spokane, and after crossing into Montana we will be at Glacier
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Campsite Review: Outlet Campground Priest Lake is located at the very south end of Priest Lake just east of State Highway 57 and north of Outlet Bay. The outlet of Priest Lake is the beginning of the Priest River which flows south from Priest Lake to the Pend Oreille River. We really like the Outlet
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Campsite Review Clear Lake Campground (military) is located north of Interstate 90 — twenty miles southwest of Spokane, Washington. This is a private, military only, campground although there is no guard at the gate, a military ID card is required to check-in. The campground includes a picnic area, boating, fishing, and other watersports. Fairchild Air
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Campsite Review: Grand Coulee Campground is located at the north end of the City of Grand Coulee just west of Highway 174. Its location just west of Grand Coulee Dam. Grand Coulee is about the center point of eastern Washington. The RV park is close to Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. Here is our blog
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Campsite Review: Big Twin Lake Campground is located to the south of Winthrop Washington on Twin Lakes Road. The best way to get here is to turn west on Twin Lakes Road off of Highway 20 three miles south of Winthrop Washington. Turning west on Twin Lakes Road just after crossing the Methow River Bridge
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FoxRVTravel-Snippet: Total Solar Eclipse 2024 — In 2017 we started our full-time RV adventure with our RV trip to see the August Total Solar Eclipse. We covered over 1600 miles in two weeks and promised ourselves that we were not going to travel long distances with time constraints. The trip underlined the fact that we
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Washington Pass – Bad Roads for RVs is on the North Cascades Highway (Washington State Route 20). This road is steep. This route is between Newhalem and Winthrop. This route description covers both Washington and Rainy Pass on the same road, each with its own challenges. This road is also very beautiful in good weather
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Campsite Review Howard Miller Steelhead Campground Is east of Burlington, Washinton on Highway 20 just to the north of the Skagit River. It is between the small town of Concrete and North Cascades National Park. The address is Rockport, Washington, a tiny town. Just to the northwest of Howard Miller Steelhead Is Rockport State Park which
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Since departing Lake Wenatchee we headed west along Highway 2 to Everett, just north of Seattle. We are spending three weeks in northwest Washington. The last time I drove my RV through Seattle I promised myself that the next time I would go from Tacoma to Everett via Wenatchee. We didn’t go to Tacoma but
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