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If you are one of our email and blog recipients who actually opens our emails and reads our blog, you might have noticed that our summer travel blog has become somewhat stagnant for quite some time. The summer of 2013 was our last year of significant travel. Anna

We just finished our return leg east from our Colorado and Utah summer journey.  After a quick stop in Kansas, we arrived at one of our favorite stopping spots, Branson.  If you like music, dancing, comedy, and entertainment in general, visiting Branson is a must.  I'm

We left the canyons and Arches of Utah behind as we started our return journey home to the Carolinas.  Our first stop was in Grand Junction, Colorado to see the Colorado National Monument.  The Independence Monument and Grand View inside the National Monument area were similar

After leaving the Four Corners area of Colorado, we headed northwest to Moab, Utah - the heart of red rock country.  Moab is centrally located to Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Dead Horse Point State Park in the eastern central area of Utah.  This

We're off!  Anna and I loaded ourselves, the dogs, and everything we thought we couldn't live without onto the "Tiger Bus" for our long awaited summer excursion out west.  Our first stop was an overnight rest at the Two Rivers RV Resort in Sevierville, Tennessee.  We

The last time we sent out a blog was after our Summer Vacation 2011 rolled to an end.  We are sending this edition out to allow you the chance to catch up to where we are - and how we got here! Let me first say that

Anna and I previously visited all of the states in the eastern half of our country with the exception of Michigan.  One RV park where we previously stayed, was only eighty feet from the Michigan state line.  In August of 2011, the Good Morning America program

Since 2007, Anna and I  have tremendously enjoyed our travels by Motorhome.  The enthusiasm we take away from this life experience is often hard for us to put into words for those without the same experience.  After the first two or three years on the road,

We started our trek northward from south Florida with a surprise. Our son Turner’s girlfriend, Courtney, had been interning as a counselor all summer at Camp John Marc in Texas. She and Turner are big Harry Potter fans and wanted to come to the theme park at Universal Studios for some time. With the stealth help of Courtney’s parents we managed to surprise her with a visit to the Universal Studios in Orlando with Turner. I think the “kids” might have been a little crowed in the motorhome with us, but it was good seeing them both. While they toured the Harry Potter theme parks, Anna and I hung around Fort Wilderness and WDW. We limited our time touring the theme parks at WDW due to the extreme heat. Can you say HOT-HOT-HOT!!! After a four-day visit Courtney flew back to Texas to finish her summer commitment, and Turner returned to his job and graduate studies at Clemson University. We would like to come back in a few years with all of our kids.

We made our way east into the Sunshine State just in time for the July 4th weekend celebrations. Heavy rains and automobile accidents along our route delayed our arrival into Santa Rosa Beach by several hours, but we still managed to arrived in time to eat