Stubers ... Simplified

Saturday October 22nd we left Wenatchee and moved on to the Seattle area. The act of leaving, though, was not without issues, today. As we were leaving the park, the signage directed us to go to the right of a small traffic circle, but the turn was kind of tight. I knew we could make it, but forgot about how our rear end can often swing wider than the wheels track and I clipped a metal post with the left rear of the camper. As soon as I heard/felt the impact, I knew what I'd done and was instantly mad at myself for forgetting. I got out to inspect the damage and we were lucky. The damage are mostly superficial, a shallow gouge, a smashed light, some bent trim and one bruised ego. I'm an idio

In our draft plan of the first leg of our journey, we had pencilled in Glacier National Park, weather depending. However, having had freezing temps and some snow in Yellowstone we figured things would be closing in Glacier and sure enough a bit of research showed that it was too late for this season. So, we put our other plan into action and decided to head for Seattle as quickly as we could muster. Monday October 10th we headed for Missoula Montana, a 275 mile or so trek. It was a beautiful drive past Earthquake Lake, across big sky country and over mountains. We only planned to stay here for the work week as a stop over on the way to Seattle, but in the few nights we had to explore we real

When I was planning the first weeks of our trip, I wanted to be somewhere special for our 5 year wedding anniversary, and nothing is quite as special as Yellowstone National Park. Our Anniversary fell on a Friday this year and so I decided to burn a little of my remaining PTO to be sure we could spend that day exploring the park, so on Thursday the 29th of September we picked up from Cody and drove through the park to our site at the Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park in West Yellowstone. I had tried to find us a place inside the park, but the only campground with sites capable of holding our rig were at Fishing Bridge which was already closed for the season. West Yellowstone, though, is less than

So, I last left you in the Badlands. From there on Sunday Sept the 18th, we made the short trip to Rapid City, SD. The GPS oddly took us through a residential neighborhood with terrifying grades, but we made it to the Rapid City RV Park off Hwy 16 on the hill south of town. The sites were pretty close together and all gravel and there was a fair amount of road noise, but the view from the hill was nice and it was conveniently located just outside of town, but on the side of town leading into the Black Hills. We really enjoyed downtown Rapid City. Several nice brewpubs and lots of dining options, neat stores. It seemed like a pretty vibrant community. Firehouse Brewing in Rapid City. Not the