Out Our Front Door (old log)

Summer View of Old Faithful

 

While you can not camp right at this site you can park nearby and walk to it within a couple of minutes.  We enjoy bringing our RV to sites like this even if camped in the area because we always have our bath and kitchen nearby.  Also if you really want to make a day of it you can go back to the RV and take a short nap.

 

 

It is always a good idea to go early so you can find a good parking spot.  Always remember to try to make sure when you park so that no one can pull right in-front of you and block you so you can  leave when you want.  It happened to me once. I tried so hard to only take the minimum space needed.  Once we had to wait two hours for the folks that blocked us to come back and leave so we could.  So since then I have always tried to take up a little extra space to reduce the chances of this ever happening again.  It has worked so far.

Duluth - Out Our Front Door (Old Log)

I love our visit to Duluth while there we stayed in a lake front hotel (they had parking room for our RV).  It was the only way to stay by the harbor so we could watch the ships come and go.  I learned that when you can see them just on the horizon they are 30 to 45 minutes out.

 

Below is a ship coming into the harbor just off the sea wall.

 

Below we see a ship passing the sea wall and turning into the harbor.  This port is only closed a couple months each year do to ice on the lakes.

This final photo below is a large Laker coming out of the harbor taking ore to Indiana.   These larger Lakers are so large they can only travel the upper three lakes.  They are over a thousand feet long.

 

We hope to go back to Duluth in the summer of 2015.

Out Our Front Door

You never know when you may see an Abbey

 Kathy at a zoo that allowed visitors to feed and pet some animals under zoo keeper supervision.  Kathy has always loved giraffe's.

Since the Space Race I have always been interested in Rockets and Missile's I ended my Air Force days as a Missile Launch Officer.  Here is an Atlas Rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Happy Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans and their families.  This great land and we are free because of you.  Below is just a shot down into a valley just south of Rock Springs, Wyoming.

 The following is a photo taken by my sister Judi.  You see my father a B-17 Navigator in WW2, me, my mother and my brother now a Retired Army Artillery Officer.  We are in front of our trailer back in 1961.  This is the first recreational vehicle in my family.

Richard Sout Kathy's Dad

 Peter Kisiel Our Son

 Kathy and I

 My Dad

Out Our Front Door - Selection of Photos

On our travels we often stop off in small city parks with their campgrounds normally free or low overnight fees.

Here is a one leg pigeon I saw one evening walking back from the beach while in Florida.  The birds along the coast are always interesting.

Traveling  out west wild horses are not uncommon.  It is a big country out west and you never know what you will see.

An old WWII artillery range near Cheyenne is now part of a National Forest.  Here is an old observation bunker.  My brother is a retired Army Artillery Officer so it had special interest.

Water out west is always a concern and windmills are common for bringing the water to the surface without electricity.