Tom and Louise on Tour in North America

Anyone who owns a smart phone has heard the saying, there's an app for that.  It's more than a cute rhyme.  An app (tech talk for application) is a computer program which performs some function.  Apps on smart phones are small programs that require very little memory and usually form a specific function or limited set of functions.  In...

One night on my way home from calling Mexican bingo at Flip Flopz, the community building in our park, my cell phone fell out of my pocket.  I got home, noticed it missing and retraced my route.  Turning a corner I saw something in the middle of the street and it was my phone.  Unfortunately, someone had run over it with a golf cart. ...

While Gramps is fighting off the cold I thought I would highlight the joys of traveling south for the winter as do those of us fortunate to be free of the attachment to a job.  It is Saturday and today I spent the morning getting our motor home ready for a trip to the shop.  We blew a tire, outside dual on the drivers side, and it took a bunch of fibergla...

Two years ago studies came out that identified one of the most dangerous items we use daily.  It is an item that we all enjoy and doesn’t seem that dangerous at all.  It isn’t cigarettes or liquor.  It isn’t fast cars or fast women!  One of the most dangerous things for people is the chair you are sitting in right now as you read thi...

Louise’s mother, Irene, lived in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, for many years.  When we visited her one of the things she would always talk about was the production of her fruit trees.  She kept count of the number of oranges, lemons and grapefruit that each of her three trees produced.  We used to laugh about her recordkeeping tendencies.  She did ser...

The Quinault Valley of the Olympic Peninsula was our last stop visiting the peninsula.  Arriving at the Rain Forest Village Resort RV Park, we located an open site.  We arrived on the Thursday before Labor Day weekend so we were glad to get a site at this first come, first served RV Park.  They do not take reservations.  The park is more like a state park...

Anyone who visits the Pacific Northwest will see ample evidence of the logging industry in this part of the country.  As you drive the roads you will see hills and mountains that have been give hair cuts.  Sometimes a whole hill or mountain is devoid of trees.  In other locations you see patches removed from the rest of the forest.  You are sharing the ro...

Seattle, the largest city in Washington, is named for an Indian chief. Many other features in this area have Native American names. On our travels, we visited several museums and cultural centers that helped to build our understanding of and respect for the culture. Our first museum was in Coulee Dam on the Colville Indian Reservation , in north-central W...

We have been on the Olympic Peninsula for just over a month now.  Starting on the east side of Olympic National Park and moving north, west and now south we have explored the fringes of this vast wilderness park.  We have also explored the towns and villages surrounding the park.  There are so many things we have seen and done that I won't even begin to w...

We have traveled 6500 miles so far this summer.  One of the things we have noticed while on the road is that there seem to be many more motor homes on the road this year than in years past.  I can recall the days when we considered purchasing a motor home and then first hit the road.  We would drive down any road and see lots of RV's of all kinds.  Then t...