Tag: travel

Goosenecks State Park – Utah

Wanda and John

After we left the Bonneville Salt Flats we visited our friends Dale and Karen near Salt Lake City UT. It was great to see them and they let us camp in their driveway for a few days. We are planning on seeing them again next year when we return. Next we headed east into the corner of New Mexico. We were planning on camping in Chaco Valley which is where the ancestral Pueblo people lived from 850 to 1250. Unfortunately it was raining and the road in was impassable. We’ll try again next time. This is not our photo, but you can see how amazing it is.

Next we went to Monument Valley in UT. On the first day here we drove through Valley of the Gods. We were going to tent camp here but the lows were 30 at night so we decided not to go for it. All of the rest of the pictures are John’s or mine.

When you are leaving Valley of the Gods there’s road called Moki Dugway that winds to the top of a nearby mountain. It was a little scary going up, and down, but wow what a view.

Yesterday we were very fortunate to have a contact in the Navajo Nation (thanks Dale!) who offered to take us on a behind the scenes tour of places in the valley. Nathan was a wonderful guide and taught us so much about the Navajo history and the magical places in Monument Valley where he grew up with his family. This is Nathan.

And I no longer have a Pavement Princess!

Today we came to Gooseneck State Park in UT. We’re camped right on the edge overlooking a deep meander of the San Juan River.

We should have more Gooseneck photos and video in the following days.

Field of Dreams – Dyersville Iowa

Wanda and John

We left Alabama on Tuesday Sept 9th. We traveled north and crossed the Mississippi River just west of Memphis Tennessee, then through the corner of Arkansas into Missouri. We stayed there just one night at a small RV park right off the highway that had full hook up and laundry facilities so we were able to catch up. We got back on the road and then stopped one more time in Missouri for a 2 night stay before arriving in Iowa yesterday. This time we’re staying at a ‘Harvest Host’ site called ‘O So Good Winery’. Harvest Host sites are places you can stay all over the U.S. at private properties for free and there are many different types of places to stay like casinos, farms, museums and golf courses. Of course you are encouraged to patronize the business, which John and I did happily at the winery last night. The food was delicious and the wine was even better. They even had a Music Bingo night and we stayed to play. So much fun. Tonight there’s a live band outside so that should be cool.

The main reason we took this route was so that we could visit the famous ‘Field of Dreams’ movie site located here in Dyersville. If you’re not familiar it’s the movie from 1988 with Kevin Costner where he builds a baseball field in the middle of a corn field and baseball ghost players come out of the corn to play. One of the famous lines from the movie is ‘If you build it they will come’, so we came. We were able to wander around the field and John and I even had a catch on the first base line. We also had a tour of the house from the movie.

If you don’t understand this video, watch the movie 🙂
We are leaving here tomorrow and heading directly west for South Dakota. Can’t wait to get to the badlands again!