Tag: travelswithtoohey
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Kamp Klamath: The Final Entry
July 5 – July 18, 2021 We decided in early June to finish our trip at the end of July, drive to Golden to fix up and sell the trailer, and move on to the next thing in life with no idea as to what that was. We also decided to take the last few…
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California Edition 5: Monterey, Big Sur, and the Collector
June 15 – 17, 2021 Lysette likes to say I am a collector of things, to which I disagree. My position is that a serious collector of things would have lots of things, more like Fred Sanford of Sanford & Sons amount of things. A serious collector of things is way more disciplined and organized…
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California Edition 4: San Simeon State Park and Pismo Beach
June 9 – 15, 2021 This bogisode covers our first of what will be many stops along the California coast throughout the rest of June and half of July. The Hunt family interlude represents a big portion of this blog which is a slight stray from the nature stuff but a large portion of what…
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Highlights from our Adventures in the Desert Southwest
April 21 – May 9, 2021 Since we’ve fallen way behind on our blog entries, we sought a way to catch you up without eliminating too much of the good stuff, so we are going to provide ONLY the good stuff. This blogisode eliminates the descriptive turns, brodies, trees, foliage, and details on the many…
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Lee’s Ferry
April 16-19, 2021 I recently read the book, Under the Banner of Heaven, by John Krakauer. This book was recommended by a frequent reader of the blog so I bit after previewing the free sample. It explores the history of the Church of the Latter Day Saints while using their past as a pivot to…
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Texas Episode 6: Big Bend National Forest
February 26 – March 2, 2021 Many people we’ve met along the way have reported to us that Texas has a really low percentage of public to private land ownership. This fact impacts our travels as it becomes difficult to find camping spots other than private RV, state, and federal (national park) campgrounds and limits…
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Texas Episode 5: Crossing the 100th Meridian
February 22 – March 2, 2021 The TWT team would like to thank all of you for your comments. We get many in the blog itself but more who send us text, emails, and even call from time to time. We have one friend from Savannah who is an engineer for a business jet manufacturer.…
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Texas Episode 4: Stormy McWinterstormface, 2021
February 10 – 22, 2021 We have the ability to travel anywhere in the world but we ended up stuck here, smack dab in the middle of a natural disaster. The Kemp I finished reading the book, Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne during our first few day in the hill country. I…
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Texas Episode 3: Fredericksburg and Cycling the Texas Hill Country
February 3 – 15 Our drive north to Fredricksburg wasn’t all that interesting. We saw the usual large ranches, herds of beef (with all their legs), and goats and sheep. We passed roads named Rifle and towns named Geronimo, all quintessential Texas. The roads got hillier and the trees changed from short oaks to short…
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Texas Episode 2: Goliad – Small Town, Big History
February 1 – 3, 2021 Travel Journal Our plan was to move inland, away from the coast and into the area of Texas between Austin and San Antonio known as the Texas Hill Country. Fredricksburg is the town that Lysette wanted to visit for cycling so it became our destination. We needed one stop on…
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Texas Episode 1: Port Arthur, Sea Rim State Park, & Galveston
January 29 – February 1, 2021 My impression of Texas entering the state was as a massively large southern state, hugely full of itself with big oil, large ranches, dual axel pick up trucks, huge belt buckles, 10 gallon hats, and strong egos. What I have learned is the state of Texas, although still a large…
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Mississippi Territory
January 16, 2021 – January 26, 2021 This is a bonus Travels With Toohey History Moment. Something that has always interested me about Mississippi and Alabama were that they were close to being mirror images of each other. This got me thinking about why? My research found that both states were a part of the…
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Sweet Home Alabama
January 13, 2021 – January 16, 2021 I have often wondered when looking at the map of this area why Alabama didn’t get the panhandle part of Florida which would have given it more of the beautiful beaches. Apparently the first annex of the Mississippi Territory which included Alabama didn’t include any waterfront property but…
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Big Cypress National Preserve
December 14 – December 16 You will find this blog much more appropriate in length based on words and pictures but huge on quality. You will also note a tone of exhaustion and fatigue as we struggled to find our happy spot in this camp. However, as we prepare to post this blog entry, now…
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Pennsylvania: The Birthplace of The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, and Ticks on Toohey
9/27/2020 – 10/7/2020 The last blog entry, provided a brief list of things that have made the trip from the red dust of Utah to the stink bugs of Ohio. We have found a new entry to the list which now includes ticks. As of this writing, Toohey has become host to about 6 but…
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The Buckeye State
September 20 – 27, 2020 There have been bits and pieces that we pick up from each state that travel with us along our journey. For example, we continue to clean the red dust we picked up in the deserts of Utah, the grey dust along the gravel roads in Idaho, Oregon, and Montana. We…
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Michigan: The UP
I first saw the term Yooper on a coffee mug while waiting for the boat ride to witness the iconic Pictured Rocks. After a few minutes of trying to understand what I was reading and then pronounce it properly, it made me laugh. And then my inquisitive mind took me down the path of wondering…
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Minnesota: The Northside
My only personal experience with Minnesota had been a business trip that extended to the weekend in St. Paul, Minneapolis. Mostly, I remember being frisked by police while leaving a busy restaurant at a music event on Hennepin Street. In short, I was wrongly suspected of stealing a purse, but was only temporarily detained in…
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North Dakota: Fifty was Nifty
Two things: Thing 1. As of this writing and certainly your reading of this blog, I have now officially visited every state in the good ole U.S. of A, with North Dakota being the last. Mind you, this was over a lifetime and mostly accomplished for work purposes versus play. Our drive from Fort Peck…