Blogs from North America

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After getting back to the RV last night, Ray proceeded to input photos to the blog. As you may have noticed, there were no captions with the pictures. He said that he had been over served, and that I was lucky the pictures got in! It was a fun night, and great to be having diner out. There were many laughs throughout the evening, many of them at my expense. After breakfast this morning, Ray needed to dump the RV's tanks. As he was doing this, Raymond asked if he could show him how it's done, so he went over to his RV. They must have Conan working at the factory tightening up the dump tank cover. He worked on this thing for a good 10 minutes, and it wouldn't budge. Ray remembered his Navy days, ... read more

We started our day bright and early as Ray had to walk to pick up the rental car for 8:30. Raymond offered to take the stroll with him while I finished getting everything ready. We headed out, and were quite surprised when we approached the West Entrance to Yellowstone and saw that there were three long lines of vehicles waiting to get in. The line moved quickly however, and before we knew it we were on our way. About two miles up the road traffic came to a stand still and we wondered if perhaps there was an accident. No, it was just a herd of buffalo gathered and slowly crossing the road. There were two groups, one meandering on each side of the road so the cameras were at the ready and we got many ... read more

Woke up to a cool, but glorious morning. The sun is shining and the sky is clear, a perfect day for touring Yellowstone National Park. We stopped last night in Wapiti, WY at Green Creek RV Park . It was a small, but clean park and it had this very unusual structure at the top of one of the hills on the property. It looked like a cross between a castle and a pagoda. Someone had obviously put a lot of time into it, but it was never completed. Ray later inquired about it and was told is is called The Smith Mansion. It was never completed because the builder fell to his death while building it. After setting up, Raymond went to do laundry while I made potato salad to go with dinner. We had ... read more

By 7am we were up, dressed and heading towards the People Mover bus stop. Fortuately it was just a few blocks down the road the motel was on, and then a couple blocks to the right. On the way there, we spotted Fred Myers and a number of others stores, and decided we'd stop there on the way back. Just like in Fairbanks, we lucked out and found out that the bus ride was free today, to seniors over 60. After a couple miles, and a good number of stops, we reached the downtown station. We'd already decided we were going to take a trolley tour, so we asked for directions to the Visitor Center. Just a few blocks away, we found it, and the trolley starting place too, right next door. We went inside to ... read more

We woke up to another beautiful day in Oacoma, South Dakota. Last night we all slept quite well, in fact, we overslept this morning. Raymond and Tom remembered to close all of their windows so they didn't freeze their nuts off like the previous night. We had breakfast, our morning strategizing session and scrapped the bugs off the windshield. Raymond and Tom are getting more adept with the RV after only one day. At 8:40 we hit the open road, and I mean open road as the highway was empty. The landscape is now changing into rolling hills loaded with cattle. Our first stop today will be the bad Lands. The Badlands are peaks and valleys of delicately banded colors. The Lakota people were the first to call this place "Mako Sica", which translates to "Badlands". ... read more

We woke up about 6am and packed up. Manoli called for a taxi for 7:30am, and we waited around. Just before 7:30 the taxi showed up, we loaded up and away we went. As you probably already know, if you been reading my blogs up til now, today we were going to Anchorage by train. We reached the depot around 7:45, picked up our tickets, and waited again. While we waited, we checked out the neat model railroad display. It was very realistic, and the guy that managed the display was very informative. Our train was supposed to leave at 8:20am, and about 10 mins before, they open the gates and we boarded. We had seats in car D, the back car of the train. We had checked our luggage bags, and Manoli checked her backpack ... read more