By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers
This is Part I. I’d like you to write Part II.
“What’s your favorite place in your travels?” How many times have we been asked that! Our favorite place for RVing is North America. I like to say our list of specific places is practically endless.
In response to a letter we received last week from Nancy, I responded:
Favorite places: for me, everywhere. For Monique, everywhere except crossing the Texas deserts and the Great Plains, but she realizes that it helps us appreciate other places. There is nothing like western Canada and Alaska by RV, but in the contiguous states, so far we would say the Arkansas Ozarks; Idaho and Montana; Key West (military campground); Utah and the Northwest from Northern California upward. I could go on and list another 10 or 20 favorites, but you’ll find out when you’re on the road. We like changing scenery — the desert, the forests, the mountains, lakeside, riverside, oceanside. Monique just interjected: “Tell them Bryce Canyon,” “The Great Lakes,” “What we like may not be what they like.”
I’m now asking you to answer these two questions: 1) What are the favorite places you’ve been? and 2) Where are you going? In the comments section, just list up to five favorites from your travels and up to five places you want to visit.
Please be brief. Just list them … unless there’s something we should know about getting there (e.g., the cost of ferries to get to the Maritime Provinces).
In about a week, so that you won’t miss the responses that come in late, I’ll put your answers together in a blog. It’ll be your Christmas and/or Chanukah present to each other.
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From the “Never-Bored RVers,” We’ll see you on down the road.
Last week I flew (1st time in years) to San Francisco to meet up with my son. This is a collage with a few of the photos I took on the trip: over a view of the chilly, overcast city are, clockwise from top left, a Chinatown chicken vendor; sea lions in the Bay harbor, a bird, Alcatraz, and a street performer.
© All photos by Barry Zander. All rights reserved
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This is so great to read. We have do more things such as this for that the police men.
They have been protecting us and we need to support them in this way.
marianj`
My favorites: Alaska, Oregon, Texas Rio Grande Valley, and every where we have been. Want to see New England
Nat Gildersleeve
Recent Favorites
Zion NP-hiking the Narrows
Albuquerque Balloon Festival-balloon ride during Mass Ascension
Arches NP-Fiery Furnace hike, Colorado river float
Mesa Verde NP
San Felipe, Baja California
Bucket List
Page AZ-“The Wave”, Antelope Canyon
Escalante- Canyoneering
Grand Canyon North Rim
Sedona AZ
GaryM
Favorite been to’s:
1. Kenai AK via the Yukon
2. Custer National Park and surrounding area SD
3. Cody WY, Yellowstone, Cooke City and Redlodge MT
4. Glacier National Park via Highway 93 out of Missoula MT
5. Bransas, MO via Fullerton NE, Cheyenne, WY (concrete highway across NE sucks)
Want to go to:
1. Anywhere Montana – a surprise around every corner
2. Big Horn mountains in WY
3. Anywhere along the Missouri River
4. West Coast – Oregon
5. Arizona in the winter
Mary S. Klinger
5 Favorites:
1. Yellowstone NP
2. Glacier NP, Montana
3. Rocky Mountain NP – Colorado
4. Mt. Rushmore (on the 4th of July)
5. Belt Creek near Neihart Montana
5 Places we want to go:
1. Grand Canyon, NP
2. Yosemite NP
3. Redwoods in California
4. Klickitat River in Washington
5. Alaska
Rob Kaye
Favorites:
Ashton, Idaho (Spring to Fall)
Hurricane, UT (Spring to mid-Summer)
Rocky MTN National Park, CO (Summer)
Chula Vista, CA (Winter)
Buchanan, TN (Spring)
Where to:
Key West, FL
Oregon Coast
New England in the Fall
British Columbia, Canada
Finger Lakes Region, NY
Florio
Poor grammer. I meant that I would like to go back to any and all of them.
My driving skills are mucch better than my typing. Thank God.
Florio
We’ve been in all of the Lower 48 and there’s not one that didn’t have something of beauty or interest that would be worth going back for.
OUR FAVORITES:
Northern Pacific Coast, Upstate NY, 75 mile radius of Asheville NC, Gulf Coast (LA & MS) , Northern New Mexico (Taos, Santa Fe & Albuquerque during Balloon Fiesta),
ON OUR LIST: Delaware & Rhode Island are the only two states we haven’t actually camped in yet, Nova Scotia, Alaska, currently working up to a Big Circle tour of Guy Fieri’s Triple D’s
Anita Huntley
We haven’t been RVing long
Favorites-
Deception Pass WA. State
Yachats, OR (coast)
Future:
Washington DC
Yellowstone
Grand Canyon
Brice Canyon
Fall color in the NE.
Alaska
Anywhere else that pops up.
Leslie
We have traveled over all of the United States and part of Canada. Our favorite place is Maine, we love the ocean, the lobster!!!!! and all of the places to visit, especially Acadia National Park.
Another place we love is Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
stephanie
We have visited 22 national parks and forests in the last 1 1/2 years. Hard to pick but our favorites are:
1. Yellowstone NP
2. Wawona area at Yosemite
3. Grand Canyon NP
4. Zion NP
5. All National Forests because they are dog friendly
Diane Nowotny
Favorites:
Arcata, Ca
Chico, Ca
Durango RV Park in Red Bluff, Ca
Anywhere on the Oregon Coast
Mount Vernon, Washington
Palm Desert, Ca
Wish List:
Yellowstone Park
Mount Rushmore
Key West Florida
Washington DC
Anywhere in Maine
Tom & Kathy Staska
I forgot; Lake Placid, Thousand Islands area on St. Lawrence river, Finger lakes area, Minnesota North Shore, Itasca state park (Jump across the Mississippi), & Mackinac Island.
Where we want to go: The rest of the National Parks beside the 26 we’ve already been to, The Maritimes, Alaska, Branson, Mexico (if it ever gets safe) and many more!!!
J Custer
Favorites:
1. Any national park (we’ve been to 47)
2. Alaska via British Columbia and Yukon
3. New England in the fall
4. Pacific coast from Neah Bay WA to Crescent City CA
5. Las Cruces NM
Future trips:
1. Everglades and Biscayne NPs in Florida and Congaree NP in South Carolina
2. Hudson River valley NY
3. Provincial parks in British Columbia
4. Toronto Canada
Larry Nutter
Our favorites’
Western Dakota’s
Westcliffe, Co
our home Florida Gulf Coast (Destin)
Next trip
Tampa, Fl (McDill) after Christmas for the winter months
Dakota’s next summer
Happy travels to all RV’ers
Barry Engleman
Southern Utah – all of it south of I70 & I15. Paria Canyon, Buckskin Gulch area – OMG.
Death Valley – early spring or when it is not too hot.
Black Hills and the Badlands.
Northern California Redwoods, wine country and Sequoia National Monument.
New Mexico – All of it. Bosque del Apache when the birds are there – doesn’t get any better than that!
Wish List
BC, Yukon and Alaska – going this summer.
The South.
Maritime Provinces.
East Coast – all of it.
Beach camping in Florida.
Curtis+ Lois
Places we’ve been.
1. Headwaters of Ms. River-MN
2.Lake havasu City, AZ
3.Grand canyon, S. Rim
4.Brice Canyon,Mt. Zion Nat’l parks
5.Tombstone, Az.
Places we want to go.
Everywhere that we haven’t been.
So much to see and so short time to see it all.
Rick & Judy
“We’ve Been” Favorites:
Texas Hill Country
Texas Gulf Coast–Rockport area
Gatlinburg, Tennessee–Smokey Mountains
Fort Mountain, Ga.– on top of the mountain. Little country store at the bottom of the mountain–just delightful
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Hot Springs, Arkansas (Cloud Nine RV Park)
Hope to go to:
Branson, Mo.–neither of us has ever been there, and back to all the places we like best.
Liz Bard
Where we’ve been and want to go back:
1. FT Benning, GA & Werner Robbins AFB – museums & RV parks are great
2. FT Rucker, AL – museums and RV park fantastic
3. Red River Army Dept – very quiet RV park, very restful except when they need to do target practice
4. Little Rock, AR – I went alone and want to take husband. Civil Rights museum, Clinton Library, Little Rock 9 statues on county courthouse square
5. Corpus Christi
Where we want to go:
1. Eisenhower library and museum
2. FT Lee, VA to the WAC museum
3. spend a month in DC to re-explore museums we have been to and see new ones
4. Any aviation museums (especially helicopters), military museums (small ones in citiies are intesting to see what they had to do in history), old cars and other collections.
5. Alaska – husband was stationed at FT Greeley and took inside passage cruise, now want to drive into and do sight seeing.
6. Anyplace we can go to for a tank of gas and hopefully find unusual treasures. we study state info on line or request brochures by mail to plan ahead.
Riley Oxford
Favorites:
Yellowstone NP
Glacier NP
Pahrump, NV
Ely, NV(Cave Lake)
Sedona AZ
No plans for next Year, just point the RV North or East maybe West andjust see where we end up.
Tom & Kathy Staska
North rim GC. Bryce, Zion, Arches,Rocky Mt. Nat. Pk., Pikes Peak, Glacier, Yosemite, Sequoia, Hurst Castle, Regan Library, Quartzsite, Redwoods, Rt 101 from San Diego to the end in Washington, Lake Quinault, Wa., Long Beach Wa., Lake Louise, Jasper, Ice field Pkwy, Pitch fork Steak Dinner & Musical, Medora ND., Wright Patterson Air Museum, Kitty Hawk, the UP, Mt. Rushmore, Grand Tetons, Carlsbad Caverns, Jackson Hole. Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Cape Cod, Lake Minnetonka and finally the Pioneer Museum in Scobey Montana!!!
eric
favorite trip alaska via alberta and alaskan hwy
upper michigan and UP
going to who know? but would like to hang with florio
Ford Marshall
Kananaskis Country Hwy 40, Alberta, Canada
Cowboy Trail Hwy 22 – From Bragg Creek to Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada
Ice Field Parkway between Lake Louise and Saskatchewan Crossing the most beautiful mountains in North America no matter what season – in winter the best..
Road-to-the-Sun in Glacier National Park, Montana if open- never fail to impress
Every region in North America has it’s special beauty, uniqueness to impress. Just point your RV in any direction and just go and explore North America the Beautiful.
catchesthewind
The Black Hills of South Dakota period.
Scott & Nancy
Favorites:
1. Denali NP, Alaska
2. Banff & Jasper NPs, BC
3. Yellowstone & Grand Teton NPs, WY
4. Oregon Coast
Future trips:
1. Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Provinces
2. New England
3. Voyageurs NP, MN
4. Redwood NP, CA
GlenO
Favorite Spots: 1st — Yellowstone
2nd: Bryce Canyon
3rd: St. Georges Island SP, FL
4th: Bull Shoals SP, AR (on the White River) (beautiful)
Phil and Kay Horton
Favorites: Tetons and Yellowstone NPs; Banff (Icefields Parkway awesome) and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta; Glacier NP; the Keys; the Great Smoky Mountains; Ennis, MT (flyfishing), the Outer Banks of NC, Huntington Beach State Park in SC, Blue Spring State Park in FL when the manatees are wintering
Also been to places: Jasper in Alberta, Vancouver and Whistler in British Columbia, both enjoyable, but the favorites have been visited two or three times
Future trips: Alaska, Great Lakes Region, NE USA, more Florida state parks, Nova Scotia, Quebec….
Ron Butler
Favorites:
1. Yellowstone NP
2. Bryce Canyon NP
3. Acadia NP
4. Oregon Coast
5. Texas Gulf Coast
Need to Visit:
1. Maritime Provinces
2. Kentucky Bourbon Trail
3. Smokey Mt. NP
4. Redwoods
5. Upper Penn. – Michigan
Kathy
Favorites:
Grand Canyon, esp. North Rim
Arches & Moab, UT
Capitol Reef, UT
Custer State Park, SD
Glacier National Park, MT
P.S. An earlier commenter listed Cody & Thermopolis; those are in Wyoming, not SD
Future plans include multiple trips to central Texas because our son is stationed at Ft. Hood. Would like side trips to Eisenhower & Truman birthplace/libraries.
Florio Campi
Where I have and Haven’t been.
I have been in many places, but I have never been in Cahoots. Apparently you can’t go there alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.
I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there.
I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport. You have to be driven there.
I have made several trips there, thanks to my family, friends and those where I have worked.
I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump and I am not too much on physical activity anymore. I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go and I try not to visit there too often.
I’ve been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm.
Sometimes I’m in Capable, and I go there more often as I’m getting older.
One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense. It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart. At my age I need all of the stimuli I can get. Now if I can just avoid getting in Continent.
Peggy Dado
South Dakota Sturgis to Custer.
The UP of Michigan
Niagara Falls
We have only has our RV for 2 years. We hope to find many more favorites.
Next summer Door County Wisconsin aned local camping.
I would love to camp in Maine and Quebec
Florida – Disney World and down to the Keys
Bryce Canyon
Yellowstone
Lee & Karen
Favorites:
1. Marathon [the Keys]
2. Alaska
3. Coeur D’Alene, Idaho
4. Yukon
5. British Columbia
Going:
1. Back to Alaska
2. Texas
3. Arizona
4. Southern California
5. Marathon [the Keys]
6. P.E.I. & Newfoundland
keith & Eileen Cooper
Favorites:
1 South Island New Zealand
2 Grand Canyon
3 High Cascade Highway Bend, Ore to Crater Lake
4 Highway 101 Eureka to Astoria
5 Columbia River Gorge
Where are we going
1 Croton on the Hudson to Mystic Seaport to Boston to Vermont (Rally)
2 Skyline Drive & Blue Ridge Parkway
3 Gacier National Park
4 YosemiteNational Park
5 Banff & Lake Louise
Sue
Grande Ronde Valley, OR (LaGrande, et al)
The very top of Horton Creek campground outside Bishop, CA
Silver City, NM
In and around Ely, MN
Campground on the Mississippi River at Nauvoo (The river is a mile wide here
One more – of course the Grand Canyon.
Quartzsite in January and then who knows?
ray martin
Have been:Bryce,Zion,Grand Canyon ,north rim .
Going: Yellow Stone,Grand Teton,& Glacier N.P.
Annc
So far in my limited travels, my favorite places are:
As a “Winter Texan” on the Texas Gulf Coast at Aransas Pass, TX and Hot Springs, AR. When I head out in April it will be new territory for me. My daughter re-located this year to Woodstock, GA.
Merry Christmas and wonderful travels in the New Year, everyone!
Mike
Favorites:
1) Alaska trip: BC, Yukon, Alaska
2) Canadian Rockies
3) Central America
4) Oregon Coast
5) Yellowstone & Grand Tetons
2012:
Arizona & Quartzite
Baja
Canadian Maritimes(?)
butterbean carpenter
Howdy Monique & BZ,
Whatz wrong with the deserts of West Texas, Monique?? Skip July & August and it ain’t half bad.. During that time go to Northern Mew Nexico or Colorado(we call that North Texas)…. What’s wrong with the southern 2/3 of Califxico, Barry?? I was there when you could see Mexico from ‘Dago’!!!! NO, I’M NOT MISSING IT!!!!
I’d go to Bryce Canyon!!! Just to see if it was as pretty as the back side of my ranch!!
Quartzsite; just to say I did!! West Fork, Arkansas, to see my cuzzin-brother!!!
I get to go most everywhere else in the country with my RV friends by their blogs!!!
I really do appreciate all of my RV blog friends!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!
Have a very MERRYCHRISTmas, Y’ALL!!!!
Karla Dribnenki
Favourites:
Moab – Utah
Pahrump, Nevada
Oregon Interior
Idaho – Hot Springs at Twin Falls
Thermopolis & Cody – South Dakota
Going to California
sally
As we prepare for an upcoming trip to Baja, (our first) I have been reflecting on some of our favorites…Jaspar and Lake Louise, Flathead lake Montana, Oregon coast, Eastern Sierras and central Oregon are all fantastic. Sometimes we even like our own back yard The McKenzie River. Sally
Judith Geisser
Favorites:
Owens River in the Eastern Sierras
Hot springs at the Salton Sea
Key West, Boyds, waterfront site
Cedar Key, Fl, swimming with the Manatees
The Everglades, several different areas
Returning:
see above… We live in California so some of these sites are a trek bit so worth the effort!