This is the second part of our journey through the Great Plains of the United States that will cover Wichita, Kansas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Be sure to pick up Part One, Blog 028, a whirlwind tour of St. Louis and Kansas City (both in Missouri). “And the Wichita lineman is still on the line…” […]
This Fall 2021 was our third time road crossing the country east to west—the first time on our motorcycles in 2004, from Toronto to Seattle, and more recently in 2019 on board Mr. Bond, our trusted motorhome. These had been primarily Points A-to-B drives. This time around, we were determined to slow down and explore […]
While the maxim expect the unexpected is likely the mantra of many travelers, its corollary should be just as popular; that is, take notice of the unexpected. It’s easy to not notice, to be so focused on the planned itinerary that we become oblivious to the immediate surroundings. For the past three years, it’s been a major learning in […]
Growing up in Montreal and well into my twenties, I made frequent summer road trips to coastal towns like Ogunquit, Wells Beach and Old Orchard in Maine and Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. My parents would pack my brother and I in the back of our ’59 Chevrolet Station Wagon, drive all night, such that […]
After 6 months hunkering down in our winter quarters in Desert Hot Springs, CA, we eagerly departed bright and early on April 1, 2021. Some 12 states later, across 3,963 miles (6,194 km), we’ve finally reached Maine on May 24th, our early summer stop. We made sure to be fully vaccinated before we left California. There […]
Three short days is all we had in our crazy April road schedule to tour Cajun Country. Once Mr. Bond was safely ensconced in a quaint but soaked-with-April-rain campground in Poché’s RV Park & Fish-N-Camp in Breaux-Bridge, St. Martin Parish, we wasted no time to begin the exploration in earnest. Cajun Louisiana had been on my bucket […]
Desert Hot Springs, March 31, 2021 — Today is our last day at Catalina Spa and RV Resort, our winter home in the Coachella Valley in California. As much as we love it here, we’re excited to be on the road again. One of the reasons we took to this area is definitely due to […]
The arrival of March certainly marked a dubious anniversary: we’ve all been doing a pandemic song and dance for an entire year! While this past year was different for everyone, each and every one of us have lost something in this pandemic, with some people losing way more than others of course. Mark and I have […]
The pandemic stages we’ve gone through thus far remind me of the five phases of the Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. All five of these can easily be applied to our collective and personal handling of the pandemic of 2020. First, in March when we learned of this terrible virus. People didn’t […]
One ‘hot’ isn’t enough to describe life in Northern California in the middle of summer 2020! Redding, our anchor for the month, is a town of just over 90,000 people in Shasta County. Some of you may recall that Redding was at the centre of extensive wildfires in August 2018 — Carr Fire and Mendocino […]
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