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June 1, 2023
Around the US Susan Fulmer
Claytor Lake CG, VA
June 1, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
This state park was easy to access and was only a few miles off of route 81. The site was also very level and has lots of shade. We like state parks because they are a good balance of reasonable prices and nice amenities with usually very nice quiet. We are enjoying both water and electric hookup.
Despite packing up and closing the house was a lot of work, I took a few minutes to bring along some nice smelling flowers. We have quite a team of people helping us out while we are gone.

The worst part of the day was forgetting to bring a loaf of bread for making our sandwiches for lunch 😂. Breadless sandwich was healthier. Lol.

Added this note at the end of the trip:
It is completely different to live on the road for months, than to go on a 3 week trip.Read more
Susan FulmerNo. I didn't
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Smokemont CG, Cherokee, NC
June 2, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
At this campground, looking out the bedroom window, the stream is about 10 ft away so you get to hear the stream while you're going to sleep. Loving it, You have to book these stream-side sites 6 months ahead. The whole CG was full.

The mill was interesting. Mingus Mill is a steel turbine-powered grist mill from around 1900.Read more
TravelerGreat pics.
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Susan FulmerThank you!
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Gatlinburg, TN
June 3, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
The skywalk was a fun thing to do with the longest suspension bridge, but we like the Snowbird ski slope lift in salt lake City a lot better. It's extremely touristy in this area, like Ocean City boardwalk.

Clingman's Dome is worth the drive up here. It's just hard to find parking, so go early.

You never know what's going to happen on vacation, a bunch of pink carnations came floating down the stream and several of them came over to the side we were on. So I picked them and put them in a vase.Read more
Susan Fulmer Having a beer and chilling in the stream
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Traveler Great pics👍
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Susan FulmerThanks!
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Meriwether campground, Hohenwald, TN
June 4, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
Free camping. First come. First served
Off the Natchez Trace. Beautiful campground, Only 5 other campers in our loop.
FREE!
** Remember in the morning:
we are an hour behind you.
TravelerWe have cousin in Hohenwald TN on my Mom’s side.
6/4/23Reply
Susan FulmerCool. We are getting in around dinner time and leaving early in morning. We might have time for a short hike I hope
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TravelerLooks amazing
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Gulpha Gorge CG@ Hot Springs Natl Pk, AR
June 5, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
$17 a night and all sites are full hook-up. We are by the stream. Good shade. Close to town. We get cell service.. Really tight squeeze getting into site because National Park Service doesn't want to cut or trim anything. Eddie got it in. Glad we had reservations because the whole CG is full.. The Host told us they are pretty much full every night of the season because this is the only urban national park
We are going to the hot springs this week. From the 1920s through the 1940s, Hot Springs flourished as a place where the famous and infamous came to enjoy the thermal waters, In 1832 it became the first National Park. The National Park consists of a row of Bath Houses – 2 are still working and the other buildings have been transformed into gift shops, the visitor center, and a brewery!! It looks like the town had it's glory days, and now those days are past, outside of town. Downtown is like downtown HarrisburgRead more
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Out and about Hot Springs (AZ)
June 6, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Today:

Hiking trails
Getting mineral water (why not)
Eating out at Bubba Brews - best chicken wings, unbreaded, cooked beautifully. Pumpkin beer.
Sitting in the stream with a beer
TravelerGotta love good wings! Looks awesome and glad you guys are having such a wonderful adventure
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Susan Fulmer😃 thanks!!
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Susan Fulmer Outside of an old building
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Hot Springs today (AZ)
June 7, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Yes, the old people did walk all the way from the bottom of the mountain to Goat Rock.
Susan Fulmer Park across the street
6/7/23Reply
Susan Fulmer 😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂
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Susan Fulmer Great food at the Superior Brewery
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Possum Kingdom Lake. TX
June 8, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 88 °F
8 hour trip.
Nice campground because everybody is spread out really far apart and we have a big lake and a few trees. Enjoyed the sunset.

Our new theme song:
https://youtu.be/7ZXgmXZXSB0

We took a bike ride around a little bit of the lake this morning while it was cool and the wildflowers were everywhere. It was nice seeing the lake and the flowers. I stopped to get a picture of a few of them, but missed some. Saw a family of deer.Read more
TravelerLooks like a nice place to rest your head
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Susan Fulmer:)
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Carlsbad KOA, NM
June 9, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Hey, it was 99°, so we decided to go KOA tonight. Not impressed with this campground.

We drove through miles of wind turbines in Texas. The panhandle and west Texas have 11,000 wind turbines.

We are 2 hours earlier now.Read more
TravelerFlowers in the desert amazing
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Carlsbad Caverns, NM
June 10, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
Definitely put this cave on your bucket list. It is gigantic!!! The path down into the cave takes 30 -60 minutes to walk. 750 feet. The cave is absolutely huge.
Stopped in El Paso for tacos and enchiladas.
Arrived at Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in time to watch the sun set.Read more
TravelerAs you headed out of El Paso going north, you could have seen our house up on the mountainside. It was the second or third highest house, elevation wise, in El Paso.
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Susan FulmerI wish I could have seen it
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TravelerAs you headed west past El Capitan, you drove by the road north to Dell City, TX. For 10 years and 10 months, every Wednesday, I drove 100 miles to a Sears clinic to provide medical care for the people there. It was 50 to 100 miles to another doctor in any direction. The people were wonderful to work with.
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Susan FulmerThat's very interesting, and that's a long drive
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Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, NM
June 10, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
Camping in the desert under Sacramento Mountains in Dog Canyon. It's very scenic, because they rise 9,700 feet above our camper, and there is a great view out every window.
Great price for the site with water and electric.Read more
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White Sands, NM
June 11, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
They have to plow the road to clear the gypsum sand. Some people were sledding on the dunes. They go for about 8 miles.
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Bluff springs Trail, near Cloudcroft NM
June 11, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Hiking at 12,000 feet elevation near Cloudcroft. NM.
Alpine type area, one of my favorites.
We sat on a log for lunch.
The road here was quite narrow, so lots of pulling over.
We saw the old bridge for the train as we were hikingRead more
Susan Fulmer Hard to see the stream
6/11/23Reply
TravelerThe Cloudcroft, NM, area was where I often took my Boy Scout troop camping.
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Susan FulmerVery cool, we were really back in the back country
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Dog Canyon Trail, beside campground NM
June 12, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
The bench we sat on was 4022 feet up, and we probably hiked up another 2000 feet, 2 miles of trail. The mile markers were in 1/4 mile increments since it was so steep and sometimes it was hard to figure out which rocks were the trail. It's hard to see in the photos the cliffs and the steep grade. There were times when my comfort level was just about maxed out when the trail was on the cliff edge. Of course the views were awesome. I marked our trailer in one of the photos. And where we hiked to on one.
One of Eddie's favoritesRead more
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Juniper Campground at Lake Quedado, NM
June 13, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 90 °F
Saw lava field on the way.

$7.50 a night to camp above the lake with electric and water hook up. So quiet here, only 6 campers counting us. It was totally quiet at the last site, but even more quiet here.
We heard coyotes carrying on in the middle of the night. and saw one prancing through our site this morning. We watched a crane catch a pink/orange fish.
We are in the middle of nowhere.Read more
I like quite and beautiful! [Diane]
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Pie Town, NM
June 14, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
What do you do in Pie Town, eat pie.
Ohana pie
TravelerOh yes, put me in coach 👍🤣
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Info:
June 15, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
If you click on the picture of our location, then zoom out. You can see our entire route
TravelerThat’s a nice app!
6/17/23Reply
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Rolfe . E Hoyer CG, AZ
June 15, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
We are 3 hours behind now. Very spread out campsites. Nice and quiet high elevation of about 8323 ft. No service.
We saw a little snow on a couple of the high mountains.
The low last night was 39°
TravelerLooks like you are using some very beautiful campsites. Good planning!
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Apache Rail trail, AZ
June 15, 2023 ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
Hiking in AZ., Great scenery. Some huge trees, even bigger than the one I stood beside.
Some Bear scat,a couple cows very close to us. Beautiful scenery,
One of Eddie's favorites
Looks like a great trip! [Diane]
6/15/23Reply
Susan FulmerThanks!!
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Petrified Forest and Painted Dessert, AZ
June 16, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Amazing and beautiful. Put on your bucket list! Make sure to do Crystal Forest trail and also walk the foot trail when going around Blue Mesa.
Ate lunch overlooking painted desert
TravelerA great country we live in🇺🇸
6/17/23Reply
Susan FulmerFur sure
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Cottonwood CG @ Canyon de Chelly, AZ
June 16, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
Very quiet here and well spaced out, water and a dump station for $20.
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ
June 16, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
This has been my favorite place so far, I took 50,000 pictures, not really, but lots. Eddie and I enjoyed climbing around the rocks and looking for the ruins in the valley
TravelerCanyon de Chelly was only about 30 minutes by dirt road from the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital where I worked with the Indian Health Service. Most everyone who visited us we would take them there. Ken
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Susan FulmerGreat choice! I thought it was very scenic and I loved climbing around on the rocks!
6/17/23Reply
TravelerI am very glad that you are getting to see the area and enjoying it so much.
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4 Corners, NM, CO, UT, AZ
June 17, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Not worth the stop unless you have extra time and just want to say you were here.
TravelerHello to the adventurers 👍
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Susan FulmerHi!!!
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Traveler🌊
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Mesa Verde. CO
June 17, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Coldest night so far. We are guessing low 30s. The whole drive here was scenic, but the drive up Rt. 191 was exceptionally scenic, and very bumpy riding a trailer.
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Yum.....Cortez. CO
June 18, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
The Prickly Pear Margarita was great and so was the Mahi Mahi Tacos.
Eddie had a Coors (don't tell Yuengling) and a spicy pork sandwich. We both thought the food was great.

Some cool ruins
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