Month: July 2023

We now have a departure date!

So, after all the anticipation of our trip, we plan on leaving tomorrow! August 1st we’ll be on the road, heading for family connections in Nebraska. We have solar on the roof of the trailer now and the sun is working its magic. We were able to run the fridge using our captured solar power and even run the hair dryer! It’s exciting to see it in operation after the last month of Paul’s hard work. We’re looking forward to trying more extended boondocking and being able to camp in more national parks and forests that often don’t have electric hookups. We also hope to try some stops on public lands as well.

Our routing plans

We plan to leave the beginning of August, travelling along I80 across to the home of one of Paul’s cousins in Beatrice near Lincoln, Nebraska where we plan to spend a few days visiting with them and some of the others from Kansas. After that, we will continue across I80 until we get close to Wyoming when we’ll leave the interstate and plan to head northwest on secondary roads. We’ll spend time east of Yellowstone in a number of State Forest Campgrounds before heading through Yellowstone to camp on the west side while we tour through the magnificent park. After a week or so in Yellowstone, we’ll head south to tour around Grand Teton National Park. This is an area we haven’t travelled before and are looking forward to seeing the huge peaks. As we leave the Teton’s we will head northeast and by September hope to be in South Dakota and then North Dakota. The badlands and Theodore Roosevelt Parks hold some great wonders and it’s been many years since we were able to travel through that area. Current plans will see us follow US Hwy 2 across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan before returning home. We’ll see how the fall foliage is by the end of September!