Roadtrekingmike

For the better part of four decades, there is one place that has lured Jennifer and me back again and again, multiple times each year: Mackinac Island, located in Lake Huron, at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac, between the state’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Attending the FMCA Roadtreking International Region 2 rally held at the Sweetwater Forest Campground in Brewster, MA.

It’s easy to see why American Indians and the early settlers called the area of southwestern South Dakota the Badlands.

The Natchez Trace Parkway is administered by the National Park Service and it has a Meriwether Lewis Memorial on the site where the famed explorer died.

There are few animals as universally popular and liked as much as the Florida Manatee. Yet there are few animals in more danger.

I didn’t know what to expect when I pulled into Okeechobee, Fla., but I can defiately say that I didn’t expect it to remind me of West Texas.

Naples, Florida is the crown jewel of Southwest Florida, a west gulf coast town known for upscale dining and shopping, designer golf courses, awesome boating and fishing and the best weather in a state that is built around tourism and sunny skies.

One of the places that has a special hold on me is the Everglades area of Florida, a wild, huge place filled with birds and wildlife as diverse as the flooded cypress and sawgrass prairies that make up the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.

In our Roadtrek motorhome, we visit Punxsutawney for groundhog festivities.

Mike and Jennifer Wendland dance on Mackinac Island. Tango, anyone?