If you had a month off, where would you take your TM?

[B_and_D]

My wish we could go there list:

1) Yellowstone

2) Grand Canyon

3) Kings Canyon, CA

4) Big Bend, TX

5) Colorado to see the Rocky Mountains

6) Alaska (except I hear they have REALLY big bears)

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I could go on and on....

Well, since we are wishing here I'll add my list too! I do want to say that we went to Davis Mountains in December which is north of Big Bend and it was a great 10 days. I want to go back as I keep reading up on all the things to do. Here's the list:

1) Davis Mountains (Texas)

2) Sequoia Natl Park (California) I lived there for a year when I was eighteen, I guess the trees are much older now.

3) Idylewild (So. California)

4) Guadalupe & Glass Mountains (West Texas)

5) Piney Woods (East Texas) Probably Spring Break this April

6) South Padre Island (South Texas) My favorite and most convenient spot especially when Winter Texans are there.

Seems like for now, it is really hard to get out of Texas. It's so big but the most convenient to Mexico. A month would be barely enough to get as far as Northern California. I didn't put the Colorado mountains because that is like a forever trip, you get there and you would have to stay at least three months or more to really see all that wonder .

We've had our TM for two years now and have seen most of Texas, I spent every summer and a lot of weekends in NM and Colorado durning school years and work years. Lived in Calif. for three years.

I think the list would look like this:

1. Pacific north west

2. Deep south

3. both sides of the Mason Dixon line

4. New England country side (don't like big cities at all!)

5. the mid lands (Tenn. Ken. Ill. Ohio - kind of around there)

Of course I would have to return to the southwest often just to remind myself what heaven is really like.

We would like to visit alot of the US:

1. Upper Michigan( it is beautiful up there can camp right on Lake Michigan) we are going there this summer. Lake Superior is great too(just a little to cold to swim in)Alot of historical and nature to view.

2. Texas( i didn't know there was mountains in Texas)

3. Yellowstone(been there 3 times but it is great place to visit)

4. Colorado(never camped in CO but visited there twice)

5. Just road trip the West ( you never know what you will find till you get there)

6. Northeast( never been in there)

mamabear

MamaBear,

Texas is such large state that it has everything. Fortunately or unfortunately, living in Mexico and traveling in the U.S. I can't get out of it.

It is a great state for Rving. Mountains, lakes, ocean, you can literally do all the above on a two-weeker.

Log on to the www.traveltex.com for your free state travel guide.

Logon to www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park and get to know the great state park system. (although I disagree with their entrance fees, why pay an entrance fee when you are paying for a full hookup :-[).

[RockyMtnRay]

Where to go for a month?

NORTH!!!!

Options:

1. Alaska (via both the Alaska Highway and the Inland Passage (marine highway).

2. The Yukon & NW Territories

4. Hudson's Bay region

5. Nova Scotia

6. Labrador/Newfoundland (did NF in my car about 30 years ago...think it would be a grand adventure to take the TM over there on the ocean going ferries for a couple of weeks) .

7. Prince Edward Isle (another Canadian province, eh ...one of the few I haven't yet been to! ).

8. North shore of Lake Superior, Quetico park, Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

9. Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan...as far as the roads will go.

10. And for shorter trips, the Glacier/Waterton Lakes International Parks region, and Banff/Jasper National Parks. At the border between Jasper & Banff, the Columbia Ice Field comes just about down to the highway. About 20 years ago, I traveled on my motorcycle down the YellowKnife Highway from Prince Rupert BC (on the Inland Passage just south of the border with Alaska) through Jasper/Banff/Waterton Lakes/Glacier/Yellowstone/Teton parks. Great adventure doing motorcycle camping but would be just as about as much adventure (and a heckuva lot more comfortable) doing it with my TM and truck.

Paraphrasing Horace Greeley: "Go North Young Man" ;D

But it gets really cold up north.

[RockyMtnRay]

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But it gets really cold up north.
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Yeah...isn't that great!!

Not in the summer, though. Even the coast of the Arctic Ocean gets up into the sizzling 50s and scorching 60s in mid summer. And in the interior, it can often get well into the 90s at mid summer...Fairbanks (in roughly the center of Alaska) has had a record high of 94 degrees.

Admittedly the winters can be a tad chilly...sometimes minus 60 to minus 70. But since I grew up on the northern plains of Montana and frequently experienced minus 40 to minus 50 temps when I was a kid, I don't think of those temperatures as being terribly cold. And to this day, I think of anything above +40 as basically t-shirt and shorts weather. To me the perfect outside air temperature is about 45 to 55...when I lived in Iceland, the usual summer temperatures were about 50 and I just loved it.

But I'll be doing my journeying north in the unfrozen months mostly because towing on ice and snow is just a real pain.

[B_and_D]

I would also like to see those northern areas of Canada...my uncle used to take his canoe up there and do the "Lewis & Clark" thing, canoeing while you can, and carrying when you can't, fishing and eating what you can find, until his health and age caught up to him. I wish that I'd been able to go along at least once. What an adventure that would have been.

It must be so beautiful and unspoiled there.

[RockyMtnRay]

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I would also like to see those northern areas of Canada...my uncle used to take his canoe up there and do the "Lewis & Clark" thing, canoeing while you can, and carrying when you can't, fishing and eating what you can find, until his health and age caught up to him. I wish that I'd been able to go along at least once. What an adventure that would have been.
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Yep...and that kind of adventuring is still possible. All you gotta do is get about 300 miles (roughly one day's travel) north of the US/Canada border.

It must be so beautiful and unspoiled there.

That was certainly the case only 20 years ago and given the relatively small population (and environmentally protective outlook) of Canada, I have good reason to believe it still is. If all goes according to my preliminary plans, I'll have photos and stories to tell by this fall of some north-of-Lake Superior adventuring.

But you really don't have to venture all the way to northern Canada for beautiful & unspoiled lands. They still exist here in the "Lower 48", particularly in the off-the-beaten track areas of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and even Northern Colorado. And for that matter, also in southeastern Oregon and even (gasp) in far, far northeastern California (northeast of Mt Shasta). I read somewhere recently that Steens Mountain and Hart Mountain in southeast Oregon were the most remote locations in all of the lower 48 states. So remote that this website is about the best I could find for an intro.