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Roadtripping Route 97
The Alaska Highway in California? That’s what an old flyer at California’s Weed Historic Lumber Town Museum claimed. “It marks the beginning of the Alaska Highway,” read the leaflet, with…
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A Winter National Park Road Trip
Summer is the most popular season for traveling to America’s most famous national parks, but a winter visit not only beats the crowds, it offers a completely different kind of…
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Three Forks, Montana in a Winnebago
His name was Clyde. In my 20 years of education, he was the only fellow student who offered me fresh macadamia nuts as a snack. I met Clyde, a native…
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Roadtripping along the Cabot Trail
The words “Nova Scotia” evoke an image of an exotic, distant land where wind-swept cliffs rise up from the misty, cold, gray Atlantic, and lush green hills roll down to the…
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RV Camping in the Florida Keys
Onboard the glass-bottom catamaran Spirit of Pennekamp, we’re hovering above a dazzling subaquatic garden of coral forming the last remaining live coral reef in the continental United States. Brightly colored…
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RVing in New Jersey
The sun is barely above the ocean horizon, and already the Cape May promenade is teeming with cyclists enjoying the scenic 2-mile stretch of paved boardwalk that runs along the…
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RVing Highway 395
Running along the eastern Sierra Range, U.S. Route 395 is one of California’s classic drives. With its otherworldly landscapes and unique volcanic geology, the mostly two-lane highway passes through jaw-dropping…
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Roadtripping through Vermont and New Hampshire
When I began planning our first visit to Vermont and New Hampshire, I heard the same thing from everyone who’d ever set foot in either state: “It’s beautiful; you’ll love…
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RV Camping in Nevada Canyon Country
Our first glimpse of the Ruby Mountains as we approached them from Elko, Nevada, wasn’t particularly impressive. For a range that stretches 80 miles, it seemed to rise rather unspectacularly…