Author: JStoness

Finding Overnight Parking

Winter RVers heading south find it difficult, even impossible to locate campgrounds which are open. Even if they do, they will likely find the water and sewer hookups are shut down and winterized. At the end of a long day’s drive most of us want to stop, park, and rest. […]

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The Gatineau Balloon Festival’s Beckoning Skies

Multiple Coloured Balloons Early man used to sit back and wonder at the eagles soaring so effortlessly high above them. Over the years many tried to emulate them. They made frames and covered them and attempted to float off high hills and achieved spectacular results. However other than cleansing the […]

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L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park

Christopher Columbus is credited for discovering North America when he came here in 1492, but he certainly wasn’t the man who discovered it. As I learned in public school, Isolated Coastline around the year 1000, Leif Eriksson, son of the adventurer Erik the Red, sailed west. He was probably not […]

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The Ever Striking Blue Ridge Parkway

Road in a Difficult Place If you enjoy mountain driving you will be in your element driving the Blue Ridge Parkway from Virginia through North Carolina. The parkway is essentially a mountain crest highway joining peak to peak through the long Appalachian chain of mountains. This means there will be […]

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A Return to Quartzsite

If you go south for part of the winter, where do you like to go? Many Canadians will turn their RV’s south looking for sun and sand, and some of them will turn up at Quartzsite, Arizona. During the hot summer, Quartzsite is a quiet Desert Relaxation whistlestop off Interstate-10, […]

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