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Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? We are going from the SF Bay Area to Las Vegas the week after Easter. I'm taking the dog and towing the trailer about 400 miles on the day before Easter to Barstow, CA. Then Easter Sunday, I'm going to finish about 150 miles to Las Vegas and setup at the Oasis RV Resort. I've scoped out the Oasis on another trip without the trailer and it is nice. Wife and daughter will fly in Sunday night and we'll be there until the following Friday. Then we will all travel from Las Vegas to Baskersfield that day, spend the night at a KOA and then back home on Saturday. What is on your calendar? Mark Filice 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 > What is on your calendar? > > Mark Filice > 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS > 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 We'll be leaving Myrtle Beach May 21 headed to the Cherokee KOA in the Great Smokies. Planning to take our two grandsons to Santa Land and Gatlinburg. They haven't been there yet so I expect everyone will have a good time. Too bad Ghosttown is still closed. The owner is trying to find a buyer for the park but no luck yet. Oliver 2000 Starcraft Galaxy 2002 Chevy Blazer Don't forget Bryson city. The kids can do inner tubing down the Deep Creek (at the campgrounds) and they have a train ride in Bryson City that can be a fun thing to do with kids. If they are old enough to enjoy log cabins and such, the Cades Cove loop is nice. And don't forget the play in Cherokee. When the kids are a little older I enjoy the Elkmont campground on the other side, it has a trolley when the teens can ride into Gatlinburg for free and give the adults a little quiet time. john >> What is on your calendar? >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > 2000 Starcraft Galaxy > 2002 Chevy Blazer Don't forget Bryson city. The kids can do inner tubing down the Deep Creek (at the campgrounds) and they have a train ride in Bryson City that can be a fun thing to do with kids. If they are old enough to enjoy log cabins and such, the Cades Cove loop is nice. And don't forget the play in Cherokee. When the kids are a little older I enjoy the Elkmont campground on the other side, it has a trolley when the teens can ride into Gatlinburg for free and give the adults a little quiet time. < john We took the train ride years ago. It was a lot of fun. Boarded in Bryson City and went thru the Nantahala forest and stopped at a restaurant for lunch by one the rafting creeks. Cades Cove is nice, but the last time we were there traffic was so heavy it took 4 hours to drive the loop. You know how people pull of the road to look at the deer and don't quite pull far enough off the road. Yea, I'm guilty of that, too. Long ago when we tent camped, we stayed at Smokemont Campground at least once a year. The horseback rides were a lot of fun there. We never had to buy wood for the fire, there was plenty for the taking on the ground. Nice memories camping in a big tent. but the old backbone would complain now if we tried that. We love Gatlinburg, but it's very much like one our local towns, North Myrtle Beach. Take one wrong step when you are walking on the sidewalk and you are in the street. Oliver Spring Break is just 9 days away here in Texas and we are packing up the Flagstaff 176 LTD and heading off to the Texas coast with the kids for a little beach time, Staying at a place called Quintana Beach County Park. http://www.brazoriacountyparks.com/Quintana/index.asp First time there, but definately not the first time on Texas beaches. Looks like a great place and Quintana is rather out of the way being an island with only one way in and out. Short drive to Houston where we are planning to spend a day at Space Center Houston. Highlight of the trip is probably going to be on the way home. We are taking the tour of the Bluebell Creamery in Brenham. In case you dont know, Bluebell is "the" ice cream of Texas. Then we are stopping at the Dublin, Texas Doctor Pepper factory where they still make DR. Pepper with sugar. Dave > Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS > 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 > Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? We're spending two weeks in Colorado in July, mostly around Denver and Colorado Springs, as well as a half-dozen trips with GLPUC. If anyone has any suggestions for good campgrounds or sights to see in Colorado I'm all ears! Korey >> Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Korey My favorite area is the Grand Lake/Granby area. However, the pine beetles are thinning out the campground shade. Visited Green Ridge Campground (Shadow Mountain Reservoir) three times last summer. Each time the dead trees had been removed and a whole set of new dead ones were apparent. And that would be another 100 miles from Denver. You can escape the Colorado Springs heat by heading up to one of the National Forest CGs near Woodland Park, or Muller State Park. The whole side of the mountain on the National Park side of the reservoir is brown. Just waiting for a spark to set off a huge fire. > Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS > 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Late May will find us once again trailing the popup to Spring Gulch Folk Festival in eastern PA. We have been doing this for about 10 years now. A very good weekend and recommended if you are out this way. Good picking all night long around the campfire. Memorial Day and also Labor day weekends we always go to a friend's dad's place in NY for a weekend of camping and music. Popup and tents all around and a roaring fire. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival calls us again on July 19-23. Field camping for a 4 stage primo event with campsite playing all around following the close of the stages. This is just the best-run folk music festival I have ever attended, and it is huge. Other stuff will crop up too. Tomes >Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >2004 Homestead Settler 255RS >1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 wow.. scenic Barstow.... NOT.. We'll be in Baja Easter weekend but not taking the trailer... maybe next trip.. They poured the floors and started the walls of our house this week, Mark.. we're getting there! Also, the support pillars are up for the RV carport and the utilities stubbed in, so your guest pad is getting there, too, Mark.. We're thinking that we might just take the TT down in about 3 or 4 months and leave it there in the carport.. that still leaves about 12" of empty carport though and our neighbor said we can use his for "overflow".. *lol* Mac https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm > Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? Hoping to get to Yosemite again as usual. But also thinking of driving the california coast from San Diego to Ashland, Oregon. This would be with 2-3 Adults and 2 children (8 and 5). I am having trouble mapping out the trip though. I would ideally like it to be broken into chunks: drive 4-6 hours and then camp 2 nights for example. Once I reach Ashland I will be losing 1 Adult, so it might be just myself and the two kids (and portable DVD player!) - and I will hightail it back to San Diego with as much day driving as the kids can handle. I was thinking about places to stop and see stuff: Santa Barbra Hearst Castle San Fran Lake Shasta Mount Lassen Volcanic Park Monterrey I was surprised how uncreative AAA was. They could do a triptik for me if I told them exactly where I wanted to go, but would not offer suggestions. Now usenet has never been a shy place, so I am open to everyone's suggestions for what I have outlined. >I was thinking about places to stop and see stuff: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Mount Lassen Volcanic Park >Monterrey This is what I recommend if you are coming up north from Southern California: Santa Barbara is nice, but you might want to go past it and stay at Flying Flags RV park near Solvang. Solvang is a Danish town, and there is native food and shops with all things Danish. Hearst Castle is neat to visit (but bring $$). You should probably buy tickets in advance online. Located about 1/2 hour from there is another RV park we've stayed at called Wine Country RV which is a really new place. IIRC it is close to Highway 101 which is what you are going to want to travel on to get to Monterey. I believe that there is ample parking for your rig in the Hearst Castle parking lot. Monterey/Carmel is always fun. There is the Monterey Bay Aquarium which is at least a 1/2 day worth of time. Then you can stroll along Cannery Row and Fisherman's Wharf. You again need to buy Aquarium tickets online. I would see about staying at Saddle Mountain RV park in Carmel. I would not think of trying to park a trailer in Monterey--parking is really scarce there. San Francisco is where I work. I would drive right past it and stay at the Petaluma KOA across the SF Bay. They have shuttle service to San Francisco from the campground. You would then be less than 1/2 hour from the Napa/Sonoma Wineries. I've camped at a nice campground near Mt. Shasta, which is north of the Lake. It is located at Lake Siskyiou. But I can't remember the name of it. Have Fun! Mark Filice 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 >> Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >Now usenet has never been a shy place, so I am open to everyone's >suggestions for what I have outlined. The Shasta area is really scenic.... If you like an occasional RV park stop for showers, laundry, etc., there are 2 nice parks off Wunderland (I'm pretty sure that's how they spell, it, but one of the parks may use an "o") drive off Highway 5 just at the north side of the Shasta pass... Might be a nice stop on your way back.. both smaller, family run parks, which we prefer.. We stop there to break up our trip back from washington.. (to central CA) Mac https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm > Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? > > Wife and daughter will fly in Sunday night and we'll be there until > the following Friday. Then we will all travel from Las Vegas to > Baskersfield that day, spend the night at a KOA and then back home on > Saturday. Btw, I have stayed at the KOA in both barstow and bakersfield during the summer. Both HOT and windy. But the pool was nice <g>. >Btw, I have stayed at the KOA in both barstow and bakersfield during the >summer. Both HOT and windy. But the pool was nice <g>. Our main objective on this trip is Las Vegas. I'm only going to spend one night in Barstow on the way there. One night in Bakersfield on the way home. I have stayed at the Bakersfield KOA before. We had been on a week-long stay at a campground on the Delta in Rio Vista. The breeder that we had been talking with about getting a dog was going to be in Bakersfield judging a show. We were going to take the trailer home on Saturday, then drive round-trip on Sunday to get the dog. I looked at a map, and we decided right there to just drive down to Bakersfield with the trailer and stay for one night. Everything worked out OK, and we got up in the morning and picked up our new schipperke, Austin. He was already named, so there is NO connection between the Austin that posts here and our dog <vbg> Mark Filice 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Now my eldest is 16, it is more and more difficult to go on our monthly camping trips. We also used to take a 3 week trip every fall, and a 2 weeker in the spring. I miss it. He will be attending a summer program at the university of puget sound in july/august. We are going to head up a week before he gets out, and camp for a while at Rainier NP. Then we are going to spend a couple of days at Dash Point SP on the Puget Sound. After we pick him up we are going over to the Olympic Peninsula, then down to Cape Dissapointment in southern WA. From there we are going to Patricks Point SP in California and then to Salt Point SP, then back home (to So Cal). It will be great to get out! OTOH, our trailer has over 250 nights on it. Since we dont use if as often, we dont want to replace it, but it is getting a bit iffy. Laura >It will be great to get out! OTOH, our trailer has over 250 nights on >it. Since we dont use if as often, we dont want to replace it, but it >is getting a bit iffy. We haven't had our trailer out since late August 8-( My daughter was on the HS Varsity Basketball team that just finished their season this week. The pre-season games and practices started in September, and we haven't been able to get away. In addition, we lost a favorite Uncle in late October and my father-in-law in January and have had to deal with all that. You cannot believe how much I'm looking forward to our trip to Las Vegas after Easter Sunday! Mark Filice 2004 Homestead Settler 255RS 1999 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 We are driving from North Chicago to Anchorage Alaska, Pop Upping all the way. Leaving in June, Arriving whenever...gonna enjoy ourselves> Anyone got travel plans set up for this year? |
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