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September 13, 2017

2017 Summer Vacation, Deadwood, LTV, Manitoba, South Dakota, Spearfish, Sturgis, Winker

Tally Ho – To the Rally We Go!

While the Custer, South Dakota area had much to offer, it was time to start making our way to Winkler, Manitoba Canada, for the Leisure Travel Van Annual Rally. We still had many miles, two states, and several stops, between our starting point in Custer and

Family, Photography, Travels

September 3, 2017

by jfanning

2017 Summer Vacation, Badlands, Black Hills, Custer State Park, North Dakota, Souix Falls, South Dakota

Counting Down – The Badlands and Black Hills

We "Bearly" left the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary and Orr, Minnesota behind, and the countdown for returning to Clemson was on. As I write this blog, we are at almost at two weeks and counting! I was just starting to miss my new bear friends in Orr, when

Family, Photography, Travels

August 27, 2017

by jfanning

2017 Summer Vacation, Bears, Minnesota, Vince Shute

Life with the Bears at the Vince Shute Sanctuary

I have long enjoyed wildlife photography and bears have always been at, or near, the top of my subject list. Like most people venturing off to a national park or forest hoping to photograph these beautiful animals, I have long misunderstood their behavior. Several years ago,

Family, Travels

August 16, 2017

by jfanning

International Peace Garden, Lewis and Clark

Along Our Way to Bear Country!

When we closed our last blog we were heading east from Medora, North Dakota, a great little town that everyone should visit. We decided not to travel too far so we planned our next stop in Mandan, North Dakota, just west of Bismarck. We set up

Family, Travels

August 10, 2017

by jfanning

Back in the Good Ole US of A!

When we ended our last post, we made a u-turn south from Jasper National Park in Alberta beginning our long and circuitous trip home. We returned to Banff where the thick smoke from the forest fires was still ever present. We only used Banff as an overnight stop before

Family, Travels

August 2, 2017

by jfanning

Icefields and Jasper – A Cool Place!

Many of our friends have been telling us about current the heat wave where we live in South Carolina. I'm not trying to make anyone jealous, and I know I'm probably going to jinx our situation my saying this, but we have been waking up with temps

Family, Travels

July 31, 2017

by jfanning

2017 Summer Vacation, Athabasca Glacier, Banff National Park, Canada, Columbia Icefield, Glacier National Park, Icefield Parkway, Jasper National Park, Kootenay National Park, Montana, Travel, Waterton Lakes National Park, Yoho National Park

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It’s North To Canada We Go!

As I start this blog, we are well into our trip north in Canada. We loved our time in Glacier National Park, but some of the areas outside the park left a lot to be desired. Restaurants, grocery stores, roads, dirt, more dirt, powdery dirt, mud,

Travels, Uncategorized

July 12, 2017

by jfanning

2017 Summer Vacation, Glacier National Park, Travel

St. Mary – Our Northern Exposure to Glacier National Park

We arrived in St. Mary, Montana and the northern end of Glacier National Park almost one month from the day we left Clemson. Our camping location in St. Mary placed us just between the Going to the Sun Road eastern entrance to Glacier National Park and the Many Glacier -

Travels

July 4, 2017

by jfanning

2017 Summer Vacation, Glacier National Park, Two Medicine, West Glacier

West Glacier and Two Medicine – Our visit to the southern end of Glacier National Park

At the end of our third week on the road, we left Grizzly RV in West Yellowstone. We had a great visit to Yellowstone National Park, and made some great new friends, Steve Hull and Belinda Crandall from Arizona, who are both avid fly fishers. I

Travels

June 22, 2017

by jfanning

Branson, Family, Grand Teton National Park, Leisure Travel Vans

On The Road Again – 2017 Westward Bound

We started our three and one-half month journey on June 1, 2017. This is our first "real" trip in our new Unity "LTV" Leisure Travel Van, that we have named Little Tiger Van,. You can find details about the Little Tiger Van on our website. Although we have a

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