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Meandering the Blue Highways

We love long road trips and take at least two a year in our camper van. We're on our fourth: a 1986 VW Westy, still Doug's daily driver; a Pleasure Way Excel, too big and we kept it only a year; a Pleasure Way Traverse Ford poptop, bought used and took us 60,000 miles in four years until it needed a new engine; and now a Promaster 1500 with 136" wheelbase. We've already put over 60,000 miles on it in 4.5 years, including the pandemic when we were mostly homebound. We've been around the US, especially love the Southwest and Pacific Northwest, and have made three trips to Alaska. We've been to much of Canada, and are drawn to the Yukon. We travel with just a vague itinerary, follow our noses, and avoid highways. 

Arctic Circle, Yukon, Canada - 2022

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Message History

 August 11-13, 2026

  After a peaceful night sleeping to the rippling sounds of Cayoosh Creek, we continued east through Cayoosh River Canyon on the Sea to Sky Highway.


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  August 10, 2026

On our first day on the road to Canada and Alaska, it was just 20 miles from Bellingham, where we'd been staying with Doug's son and daughter-in-law, to the Peace Arch border. The symbolic arch is within a park shared by Washington, 


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July 26-September 18, 2026
   After returning home in late May from our Southwest meander, we thought heading north to Alaska and the Yukon would be a wonderful way to avoid summer's heat. With a wedding in Tahoe in mid-July, we had a few weeks before we'd be back on the road.
    The yard was doing great thanks to Doug's spreading yards and yards of mulc...

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May 27-28, 2026

   Did we really need or want to drive the 9 hours from Goose Lake State Park on the Oregon/California border to home in one day?

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 May 23-26, 2026

  People often ask what our route is, where we're stopping and when. Our reply: well, we think we're going to this region and maybe we'll go here. But if we see something else along the way, we may go there instead.    Unusually, we had two planned stops on our May trip. The first was the Durango-Silverton Railroad, which had to be reserved, thoug...

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