Iowa is a big state (to me at least, with its big sky and vast farms), but we always manage to hit several towns when we’re here. Below are shots from Elkader, Harper’s Ferry, Cedar Falls, and Waterloo. The Meeter’s Herb Garden Our last couple of days in Elkader we spent doing maintenance work on […]
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Our Own Field of Dreams in Iowa
The set field from the movie, Field of Dreams, is near by; in fact Tracy used to enjoy visiting it, but now we hear buses of tourists stop there. Here, in the city park of the small town of Elkader, we have our own field of dreams campground. All-star Friends The anchor of the dream […]
3 Days, 670 Miles, a Casino and a Brewery
From when we left the Airstream factory at 5:00 pm on Friday night and headed to Iowa (we’ll pull into our destination campground around noon today, Sunday), we will have driven about 670 miles, which is way more than normal for us. We really want to see our friends in Iowa! Just a couple of […]
Casino Parking Lot Drug Drop
We’re booking it from Maryland to Ohio for an Airstream Factory appointment, so we picked an easy place to stay for one night—an option we knew about but hadn’t yet tried. Casinos are like many Walmarts, Cabelas, and Cracker Barrels: they know that people driving RVs are in their target audience and they have large […]
Never Judge a Campground by a Glance
When we pulled into our last campground near Manassas, Virginia, we were pretty pissed about the place. We were paying $50/night, and yet our site was merely feet from the campground road, with a rough gravel clearing beside it masquerading as the tent pad. Not what we’re used to. Turns out that that large gravel […]
Greetings from Civilization
We’re in NoVa (the Northern Virginia region, for you out-of-towners). Not to be confused with NOvA, the physics experiment at Fermilab, which my son reminds me is spelled not with a v but with a nu, which I got wrong in my last post. I’m grateful this blog is a team effort, seriously. What do […]
The Quiet, Forested Campgrounds of the South
Today’s our final day at this state recreational area near Raleigh, North Carolina, and it marks the end of a string of really lovely campgrounds we’ve visited in the south. When we left Florida, we moved up through Georgia, then across South Carolina, and now up through North Carolina, and every single campground has been […]
Watching the Campground Channel
My friend and fellow Airstreamer, Sherri, called me out of the blue tonight to tell me about the campers next to them at Gulf Shores. Although she and her husband are camped several states away from Tracy and me right now, we’re going through usually about the same kind of thing. Her gripe was a […]
This Place Takes the Cake (I Mean, the Sombrero)
This has to be the strangest campground we’ve ever stayed in. I was about to list previous strange ones to prove it, but, come on. Look where we are. You’ve seen the signs on I95 going to and from Florida. And, believe it or not, Tracy and I have both stayed here before (contrary to […]
Country Camping South Carolina Style
We drove straight east from Atlanta yesterday along back roads, to a campground in mid-South Carolina that we picked because we needed only a one-night stop and could get a 1/2-price discount here with a certain camping membership. So, what the heck, let’s try it. It’s called Saluda River Resort, but really it’s a fishing […]
