We’re back! Our last post (and our last long adventure) was November, 2012. We had fully baked plans to visit Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the summer of 2023, but we were forced to cancel due to health reasons. Luckily, not ours…

So we are now on our way to Alberta, Canada, birthplace of my father. (More on that later…)

We left Redlands at 9:00am on June 9, 2024. Coincidentally, 7 years ago, on June 10,2017, we left Irvine on the first of our long post-retirement trips, which included an Airstream Club Caravan starting in Rhode Island, traveling north through New England, then New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island… You can find this trip in the archives of this website.

Today was a relatively easy drive to Mesquite, Nevada. We stayed in an RV park so far out it was in Arizona… It was 105 degrees, but it was a clean and well-equipped park…

But we’re moving on. We left Monday morning and traveled from Arizona to Nevada, into Arizona again, then into Utah. Typical views in Utah:

We stopped for lunch… As a rule we avoid Mexican restaurants outside of California (with rare exceptions…). But we had to try Beaver Tacos!

Turns out we were in the town of Beaver, Idaho. We ordered “mini street tacos”. Even Idaho cant mess up carnitas, cilantro, and onions. Pretty good!

They even had an interesting mottos on their wall…

Our lunch the next day, in Pocatello, was in an interesting Italian restaurant, with a mural painted on the front:

We enjoyed “lighter Fare”:

As we continued north the mountains continued to be spectacular…

Then we noticed a small problem. While traveling through Provo, Utah, a passing car threw up a rock that cracked our windshield. A small crack, 3″ long. No – 4″. Wait! 5″. We pulled into a rest stop, coincidently alongside a few other Airstreams.

But we’re in Montana, heading to our reserved RV park in Butte. We decided the windshield crack needed attention before we entered Canada. After a quick insurance claim on the iPhone and a few phone calls, we had cancelled our reservation in Butte, added a reservation in Helena, and we soon found ourselves at Big Sky Glass:

Ever seen a Silverado without a windshield?

It will take 4 hours to replace the windshield. So we walked over to Shelli’s Country Cafe for lunch. What did we order? Cheese Quesadilla!

By 6:30pm we were checked into the KOA in Helena.

Tomorrow: Glacier National Park!

And an enjoyable time was had by all…