Trip Planning

How do you enjoy the benefits of rving when you are homebound?  Plan a future trip and imagine what can be seen from the rear view window!

I love to just open the atlas to a page and read the map.  Green spaces, whether state parks, national parks, or other greens, are revealed.  Colleges, universities, museums, other major attractions are highlighted.  All of these are potential places to visit.  Familiar places also reveal themselves and trips come together.

Johnnie and I plan to go west in August.  We know that we will eventually take I-94 through North Dakota.  Fargo is a familiar name from the movie, Fargo.  Bismarck is familiar because it is the capital and becasue we stayed at the Bismarck KOA the last time we traveled this route.  There are not many identified greeen spaces on the map I am currently using, but one green space is Theodore Roosevelt National Park.  I know the name because when we were at the Petrified Forest National Park (AZ), Theodore Roosevelt National Park was identified as one of four “badlands” — Badlands National Park (SD), Petrified Forest National Park, El Malpais National Monument (NM), and Theodore Roosevelt National Park.  We have been to Badlands and to Petrified Forest, so a visit to Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s badlands will be very interesting.  How will these badlands be different from the other two that we have seen, such as the one at Petrified Forest?  What different colors of rock can there be?  We have seen purple, yellow, red, orange, brown, gray.  What different shapes can there be?  How large will it be?  All of these questions fuel our imagination and allow us to get a view from our rear window while sitting still at home.