Mid August 2022 Downtown Chicago has very limited options for camping, so we chose to stay at a Harvest Host location just west of town. The VFW in Wheaton turned out to be a great place to stay. I’d never been inside a VFW post; in fact didn’t know much about them. Post #2164 is one of America’s oldest posts. It was started by WWI veterans in the 1930s. We were greeted by John, who handled our registration and helped…
Mid-July to Mid-August 2022 From Whitefish, Montana, we headed east into North Dakota. We stopped in Rugby, which is the geographical center of North America. It seems odd that this small town holds this distinction, but it does. In the 1880s, this was a junction stop on the Great Northern Railway. Today, it’s the Pierce County seat and home to about 2,500 people, but the cairn marking its location may be the biggest attraction. We camped on Devil’s Lake at…
Mid-June to Mid-July 2022 We headed northeast from Vancouver, British Columbia, on Highway 99 toward Garibaldi Provincial Park. We spent our first night of this journey at Whistler Campground, on the edge of the Park. From the looks of things, these parks are busy year-round. Most of the rigs in the RV section had permanent shelters alongside their trailers for ATV and snowmobile storage. The folks in this section were definitely regulars; they seemed to know each other and happy…