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While the Custer, South Dakota area had much to offer, it was time to start making our way to Winkler, Manitoba Canada, for the Leisure Travel Van Annual Rally. We still had many miles, two states, and several stops, between our starting point in Custer and

We "Bearly" left the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary and Orr, Minnesota behind, and the countdown for returning to Clemson was on. As I write this blog, we are at almost at two weeks and counting! I was just starting to miss my new bear friends in Orr, when

I have long enjoyed wildlife photography and bears have always been at, or near, the top of my subject list. Like most people venturing off to a national park or forest hoping to photograph these beautiful animals, I have long misunderstood their behavior. Several years ago,

When we closed our last blog we were heading east from Medora, North Dakota, a great little town that everyone should visit. We decided not to travel too far so we planned our next stop in Mandan, North Dakota, just west of Bismarck. We set up

When we ended our last post, we made a u-turn south from Jasper National Park in Alberta beginning our long and circuitous trip home.  We returned to Banff where the thick smoke from the forest fires was still ever present. We only used Banff as an overnight stop before

Many of our friends have been telling us about current the heat wave where we live in South Carolina. I'm not trying to make anyone jealous, and I know I'm probably going to jinx our situation my saying this, but we have been waking up with temps

As I start this blog, we are well into our trip north in Canada.  We loved our time in Glacier National Park, but some of the areas outside the park left a lot to be desired. Restaurants, grocery stores, roads, dirt, more dirt, powdery dirt, mud,

We arrived in St. Mary, Montana and the northern end of Glacier National Park almost one month from the day we left Clemson.  Our camping location in St. Mary placed us just between the Going to the Sun Road eastern entrance to Glacier National Park and the Many Glacier -

At the end of our third week on the road, we left Grizzly RV in West Yellowstone.  We had a great visit to Yellowstone National Park, and made some great new friends, Steve Hull and Belinda Crandall from Arizona, who are both avid fly fishers.  I

We started our three and one-half month journey on June 1, 2017.  This is our first "real" trip in our new Unity "LTV" Leisure Travel Van, that we have named Little Tiger Van,.  You can find details about the Little Tiger Van on our website. Although we have a