Here’s the thing about travel sites: if you are tuned into the wonder of it all, you can travel a block from home and see something really incredible.
That’s the lesson I tried to teach my students, and it’s our mantra as we climb into our travel trailer and set out on our RV life.
There is wonder all around us!
Having said that, there are some places I would definitely like to see, and some places Bev has requested from her bucket list, so our dance card is filling rapidly as we seek to improve the quality of life for ourselves.
Places I want to visit as we travel
I would love to see Yellowstone National Park one more time during our RV trips, but the dogs pose a problem: they aren’t allowed in a National Park. Bummer!
I would like to revisit Vermont one more time, having lived there for two years and loving it. Bev would also like to see that state after I bragged about it so much. It’s a long haul, but we are in no hurry, and the sites we would see on the way would be spectacular.
Other than those two places, I really don’t have any specific preferences. I want to buy a fly-fishing rod, and fish my way through the states, and meet the RV community along the way and, well, must enjoy the hell out of life.
And, I would love to visit England, but I don’t think the travel trailer would float all that well on the journey across The Pond.
Places Bev wants to travel to
Bev is cooking up something pretty amazing, truth be told. She wants to take up thru-hiking, these long-distance hikes which are sprinkled around the country. She is actually in training as I write this in March of 2022. Her first, a 93-mile hike around Mt. Rainier, will be in August. I will take the dogs, with the trailer, and kind of follow her around the mountain, re-supplying her along the way. Sounds like a wonderful adventure for her. I did that hike fifty years ago, so I’m fully aware of the wonder of it all on that particular hike.
Other than the hiking, Bev is up for just about anything. She is capable of finding wondrous things no matter where she is. The only places we really have no desire to see are in the Desert Southwest and the Deep South, and the reasons against those places are weather-related.
Our options are many because of our trailer
The nice thing about our travel trailer, and the main reason we purchased it, is that it is self-contained. It uses no electricity. It is completely solar-power and propane, and we can literally live in it, for a week, without having to find more power. That means, of course, that we don’t have to find an established campground or RV park; we can spend the night just about anywhere there is room to park the trailer, so that opens up thousands of possibilities. Heck, we could even spend the night in a WalMart parking lot, if we wanted to, which we don’t.
Final thoughts about travel sites
The reason we called our website “As We Wonder,” is because we are all about the wonder of it all, and not the wandering about to find it. There are wonders underneath our noses daily, if we are attuned to them. There is amazement around every corner and bend in the road, if our eyes and hearts are open to them. In other words, we don’t have to wander far to find the wonder of life.
And neither do you!
