Getting Ready For A Different Kind of Trip

This is the RV that we'll be dragging around on our National Parks Tour

Fall is on the way and usually we'd be getting ready to head south for more adventures aboard S/V SUNSHINE. This year is different! We plan to get back to SUNSHINE early this winter. Right now, we're getting ready for an RV trip to about 1 1/2 dozen Rocky Mountain area national parks. Our original plan was to leave on September 6, but events have caused us to push our departure back to the 13th. When we do get underway, we'll make a bee line for the Badlands in South Dakota. We figure it should take four days to get there. The first place we visit will be Custer State Park, not too far from Mount Rushmore. After a stop at Rushmore, we'll drive straight to Yellowstone. Following our visit to Yellowstone, we'll visit the Grand Tetons, Arches, Canyonlands, Horseshoe Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Kaibab, both rims of the Grand Canyon before going to Aspen for the 14th annual tribute to John Denver. Following our visit to Aspen, we'll get back on the national parks trail, visiting Santa Fe NF and White Sands National Monument. That's as far as we've planned so far. We'll add more parks to the itinerary as we study the routes we'll take to visit family in Missouri and Texas. After those visits, we'll head to Florida for a few days so we can get SUNSHINE ready for use.