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Chapter 27: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
For this stop we got a site at Lakeside KOA in Fort Collins Colorado. We stayed at this location for three days, but only spent one of...
traci wilson
Jul 126 min read


Chapter 26: Garden of the Gods & Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado
We stayed at Foot of the Rockies RV Resort in Colorado Springs for two days. This was not really a ‘resort’ at all. There were no...
traci wilson
Jul 117 min read


Chapter 25: Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis Missouri & The Cahokia Mounds
For this stop we stayed at the Cahokia RV Parque (yes that’s the correct spelling) in Sauget, Illinois across the river from St. Louis...
traci wilson
Jun 276 min read


Chapter 24: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
We stayed at Diamond Caverns Campground & Golf Resort, our last Thousand Trails Park for this trip. It has a strange setup because the...
traci wilson
Jun 267 min read


Chapter 23: Pigeon Forge Tennessee & The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Pigeon Forge is a whole destination unto itself in addition to being the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Dave said it...
traci wilson
Jun 246 min read


Chapter 22: Red River Gorge, Kentucky
We pulled into Callie’s Campground & Lake in early afternoon and the temperature was already rising to an uncomfortable level. There...
traci wilson
Jun 217 min read


Chapter 21, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
We stayed at Kenisee Lake Thousand Trails for our jump off point for the national park, which was still a bit of a drive at 60 miles, but...
traci wilson
Jun 114 min read


Chapter 20, Niagara Falls State Park, New York
The RV Park we stayed in was a small park attached to the Cinderella Motel in Grand Island New York and was not much more than a gravel...
traci wilson
Jun 83 min read


Chapter 19, Watson Glen New York
We stayed at the Watson Glen KOA, a very nice resort type campground with many amenities, including a 35’ tall waterslide and climbing...
traci wilson
Jun 84 min read


Chapter 18, Rondout Valley Thousand Trails & Catskill Mountains, New York
View From Our Campsite at Rondout Valley Thousand Trails We pulled into Rondout Valley Thousand Trails campground mid afternoon under...
traci wilson
Jun 14 min read


Chapter 17, Wells (and Ogunquit) Maine
With only a couple hundred miles to travel to our next destination, we arrived at Thousand Trails Moody Beach Campground around 12:30...
traci wilson
Jun 15 min read


Chapter 16, Bar Harbor Maine and Acadia National Park
We stayed at the Bar Harbor KOA which we’d really been looking forward to because we were supposed to get a back-in site overlooking the...
traci wilson
Jun 17 min read


Chapter 15, Atlantic City Beach Boardwalk, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey Our next destination—the boardwalk in Atlantic City New Jersey. We found an RV park, Atlantic Shore Pines,...
traci wilson
May 262 min read


Chapter 14, Pennsylvania Dutch Country & Lancaster Central Market
Tree Lined drive Circle M Thousand Trails, Lancaster Pennsylvania We only moved 40 miles from our previous location near Gettysburg to...
traci wilson
May 265 min read


Chapter 13, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Gettysburg Farm Thousand Trails RV Park We stayed at Gettysburg Farm Thousand Trails Campground, an actual working farm! The site Dave...
traci wilson
May 244 min read


Chapter 12, Harpers Ferry West Virginia, Shenandoah National Park & The Tick Infestation
We stayed at the Civil War Battlefields KOA in Harpers Ferry West Virginia. We chose this location due to its proximity to Shenandoah NP...
traci wilson
May 247 min read


Chapter 11, Williamsburg Virginia
We stayed at another Thousand Trails Campground in Williamsburg and once again, had full hookups and an assigned spot. I’m starting to...
traci wilson
May 243 min read


Chapter 10, Yemassee South Carolina, Congaree National Park & Charleston SC
Alligator at our RV Park We stayed at The Oaks at Point South Thousand Trails Campground, a beautiful, wooded campground with a small...
traci wilson
May 237 min read


Chapter 9, Cottondale Florida and Florida Caverns
Chicken Coop at The Hitchin Post RV Park, Cottondale FL We pulled in at the Hitchin Post RV Park, a quaint little private ‘mom and pop’...
traci wilson
May 134 min read


Chapter 8, New Orleans
View of Lake Pontchartrain from Restaurant at RV Park We stayed at the New Orleans RV Park and Marina on the waterfront of Lake...
traci wilson
May 125 min read
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