Follow the adventures of Andrea and Randy Goodell as they retire, leave the Rat Race, move to Tomar, Portugal, and continue to explore the world.
July 6-7,2020 We continue heading west from N. Sioux City, SD heading for the Badlands. I have heard about this mysterious and rugged part of the Great Plains area of the prairie lands of the northwest since I was a kid. Stories of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, herds of millions of buffaloes, and of …
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July 3 – 6, 2020 We left Pikes Peak State Park in Iowa and continued heading west in Tin Tin (our 24 foot Coachman RV). We were heading for N. Sioux City, SD. Sioux City has a very unique distinction of actually existing in 3 states all at the same time. North Sioux City is …
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July 2, 2020 We headed north west out of Chicago in Tin Tin (our 24 foot Coachman Prism RV), across the state of Wisconsin, to reach Pikes Peak State Park in McGregor, IA. The name is a bit confusing as it has nothing to do with the more famous Pikes Peak in Colorado, but it …
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June 29 – July 2, 2020 Today we took the short trip from Warren Dunes State Park, MI to Chicago, IL, the windy city. Back south through Indiana and west over to Illinois. Neither Andrea or I have ever been to Chicago before, so we were really looking forward to this leg of the trip. …
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June 28, 2020 After leaving Columbus, OH we headed north west back into Michigan to check out the Warren Dunes State Park. A friend of mine that I used to work with, Bob, who grew up in Michigan, told us we had to see this area as the dunes were amazing. As it is sort …
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June 26 -27, 2020 The first thing we did after leaving Mackinaw City, MI was take the bridge north on I-75 to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. While I really wanted to drive the bridge, the 12th longest suspension bridge in the world, my red headed navigator was not too keen on the idea. Especially …
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June 24 – 25, 2020 We started out from Ann Arbor, MI bright and early (at least for us) heading north to Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island. We arrived in the afternoon and stayed on the southern side of the bridge that spans both Lake Huron and Lake Michigan into the Upper Peninsula. We got …
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June 23, 2020 We started out the morning with some very impressive thunderstorms and heavy rain, so delayed our departure to Ann Arbor, MI from Sandusky, OH an hour or so. Not a big deal as we only had to drive a little over 2 hours today to reach our destination. Ann Arbor is the …
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June 22, 2020 From Cleveland, we continued around Lake Erie to the lakeside town of Sandusky, OH. We wanted to explore the lake some more and take advantage of the great summer weather we were experiencing. We drove a couple of hours and made it to Camp Sanducky, one of the less interesting RV parks …
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June 19 – 20, 2020 After spending some great family time in Baltimore with our daughter’s family, we headed west to Pittsburg, PA. We planned to see a few sights there, but got delayed and just spent one night in an RV camp outside of the city. All in all we had a very peaceful …
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Andrea and Randy Goodell explore Europe, Asia, United States, the Caribbean, and then move to Portugal!