Route 66 (sort of) to the Grand Canyon and beyond
A three-week, 5000-mile road trip loosely following Route 66 from central Illinois to the Grand Canyon. With a few side trips … We leave Beigeville…
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Lake Superior Circumnavigation 2
The Camp Westfalia crew recently embarked on another Lake Superior Circle Tour: 1000 miles around the wild and rugged shores of the Greatest of the…
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Pacific Northwest 2
We recently returned from a four-week, 6800-mile Westfalia road trip from Wisconsin to the Pacific Northwest. We leisurely followed Highway 101 down the Pacific Coast…
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Seaway Trail to Nova Scotia, Week 4
Having toured the shores of the Bay of Fundy, learning about local maritime history and discovering tidal bores and million-year-old fossils, we now set about…
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Seaway Trail to Nova Scotia, Week 3
Day 15: Digby, Nova Scotia Over breakfast we write postcards to family, and I include one to the original owner of our Westfalia, who I…
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Seaway Trail to Nova Scotia, Week 2
Day 8: St. Peter’s, Nova Scotia A fresh sea breeze drifts in from the bay while we enjoy breakfast in camp. We pack up the…
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Seaway Trail to Nova Scotia, Week 1
Six thousand miles along the Saint Lawrence Seaway through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, to Maine’s Acadia National Park. “I have travelled around…
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Great Northern Roadtrip, Week 1
A 3800-mile cross-country roadtrip from Wisconsin to Glacier National Park, retracing portions of the routes of Lewis and Clark, and the nation’s northernmost transcontinental railroad….
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Great Northern Roadtrip, Week 2
Day 8: Many Glacier Campground, Glacier National Park, Montana Motoring out of the Many Glacier valley at sunrise, we swing south to St. Mary, then…
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Southwest by Westy, Week 2
Day 8: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado The old gal has given us a bit of mechanical trouble so far on this trip, requiring an…
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Southwest by Westy, Week 1
A five-thousand-mile motor tour through several states in the great American Southwest, visiting sites both historic and prehistoric: Mesa Verde, Bryce Canyon, Zion National…
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A Superior State of Mind, Week 2
Day 8: Wawa, Ontario Today dawns to a cold, wet sleet. We hit the road early and the Vanagon’s tires soon thrum and hiss on…
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A Superior State of Mind, Week 1
A thousand-mile circumnavigation of the world’s largest inland body of water, Lake Superior, our route taking us through three US states and the Canadian province…
