Bucket List

I’m trying to stay organized while posting my blogs as I travel, so this is a work in progress. For reading the Retired Vagabond by state visit Catagories, click on the state title highlighted “red”. Individual posts of visits listed, click on the individual title highlighted red. Individual black titles remain on my “Bucket List of places I still want to visit. Credits are given in parentheses to websites and individuals I follow who had helpful reviews. Thanks for following along!

Alabama

  • Fort Morgan, Gulf Shores
  • Ft. Pickens – (CozyBeGone)
    • Loop A
  • Lake Guntersville State Park
  • Lake Osprey RV Resort, Elberta

Arizona

  • Arizona Sunsets
  • Arizona Sunrise – Lost Dutchman
  • Boondocking in the Desert
  • Ajo
  • Alamo Lake
  • Bisbee
  • Buckeye – March 2014
  • Cedar Pocket Campground, Littlefield, AZ
  • Cibola
  • Cottonwood
    • Dead Horse Ranch State Park – May 2014
  • Verde Canyon Railroad Park
  • Dome Rock
  • Flagstaff
    • A1 Forest Road Boondocking – September 2016
  • Riordan Mansion
  • Fool Hollow Lake – October 2014
  • Gila Bend River – March 2014
  • Goldfield Western Ghost Town
  • Grand Canyon
    • North Rim – September 2016
    • South Rim – Return visit full timing
  • Lake Pleasant
    • Lake Pleasant RV Resort – April 2014 
  • Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
  • Lost Dutchman State Park
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  • Meteor Crater
  • Navajo National Monument
  • Organ Pipe National Monument
  • Phoenix Zoo – March 2014
  • Quartzsite– February 2014
    • Black Rock RV Resort – February 2014
  • Palm Canyon – KoFA
  • Petrified Forest National Park – October 2014
  • Superior
    • Picketpost Mountain
    • Pinal Cemetery
  • Tucson Tombstone
    • Tombstone (April 2015)
    • Old Pueblo Archaeological Center (Wandrin Lloyd)
  • Usery State Park – April 2014
  • Wickenburg
    • Congress Acres (BLM)
    • Box Wash (BLM)
  • White Tank Mountains Regional Park – March 2014
  • Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area

Arkansas

CRYSTAL SPRINGS
  • Blanchard Caverns (Don and Patty – Host Falls Campground, Id)
  • Bull Shoals-White River State Park
  • Hot Springs – June 2015
  • Lake Ouachita – June 2015
  • Three Sisters
  • War Eagle
    • War Eagle Mill 1832

California

CAPO BEACH CALIFORNIA
  • Barstow
  • Bodie Ghost Town (Darwin King)
  • Borrego Springs
  • Calico Ghost Town
  • Crater Lake
  • Eureka – June 2017
  • Fort Bragg
  • Healdsburg – (Teresa)
  • Hearst Castle – September 2003, April 2017
HEARST CASTLE
  • Jedidiah Smith Redwoods
  • Joshua Tree National Park – March 2016
  1. Lassen Volcanic National Park (Paint Your Landscape)
  2. Napa Valley
  3. Mammoth Lakes – Bishop – May 2016
  4. Richard Nixon Library
  5. Ronald Reagan Library
  6. Solvang – May 2017
  7. Samoan Cookhouse, Eureka (Willard R Mayfield)
  8. Tahoe Lake
    • Fallen Leaf Lake – May 2016
  9. The Wildlands Conservancy
    • Palm Springs Whitewater Canyon

Colorado

  • Cheyenne Mountain State Park – September 2014
  • Creede
  • Cripple Creek
  • Garden of the Gods – September 2014
  • Golden Gate Canyon State Park (Live Laugh RV)
  • Manitou Cliff Dwellings
  • Mesa Verde National Monument
  • Pikes Peak
  • Trinidad – September 2014
  • Woodland Park

Connecticut

  • Guilford

Delaware

  • Milton

Florida

  • Cedar Key – (Teresa)
  • Coe Landing RV Park (short stay)
  • Tallahassee

Georgia

  • Atlanta
  • Charleston – August 2015
  • Fort McAllister Historic Park
  • Fort Sumter – August 2015
  • Kitty Hawk – September 2015
  • The Outer Banks – September 2015
  • Rock City, Lookout Mountain
  • Savannah – August 2015
  • Serenbe

Idaho

  • Sun Valley

Illinois

  • Chicago Millennium Park (August 2018) – Nomadic Fanatic
  • North Beach (August 2018)
  • Galena City (August 2018) – Teresa

Indiana

  • Elkhart
    • Grand Design Factory
    • Indianapolis
    • Long’s Bakery
    • Shipshewana

Iowa

  • Field of Dreams
  • Pella City
    • Tulip Festival May – (Teresa)

Kansas

  • Abilene
    • Eisenhower Library and Museum

Kentucky

  • Abraham Lincoln Birthplace (September 2015) 
  • Mammoth Caves National Park (September 2015)

Louisiana

  • Cafe Du Monde
  • Canal streetcar
  • French Quarters
  • Garden District
  • Natchitoches
  • Tennessee Williams

Maine

  • Acadia National Park
  • Damariscotta Fishing Village – (Teressa)
  • Waldon’s Pond

Massachusetts

  • Woods Hole near Cape Cod – (Teresa)

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

  • Canton
  • Natchez Trace Parkway (Ends in Tennessee)
  • Ocean Springs
    • The Shed BBQ Restaurant (off I10 Highway)

Missouri

  • Ararat Church Cemetery – October 2015
  • Indian Creek
  • Ste. Genevieve
  • Topaz Mill
  • Wood Township (Family Homestead) – October 2015

Montana

  • Delmoe Lake
  • Flathead Lake – August 2014
  • Glacier National Park – August 2014
  • Kalispell – August 2014
  • Lake Como
  • Lolo Pass – July 2014
  • Madison River – BLM Near Bozeman
  • Pompey’s Pillar – July 2016
  • Quartz Flat
  • Thompson Falls State Park – June 2016

Maryland

  • Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg

Nebraska

  • Platte River Plaine Archway

Nevada

  • Lake Tahoe – May 2016
  • Primm
    • Whiskey Pete’s Casino
      • Bonnie and Clyde’s Car
  • Valley of Fire State Park – October 2019
  • Water Canyon BLM – June 2016
  • Whitney Pocket

New Hampshire

  • Keene – (Teresa)
  • Wolfeboro – (Teresa)

New Mexico

  • Bisti Badlands (LoveYourRv)
  • Carlsbad Caverns
  • City of Rocks State Park (Live Laugh RV)
  • Elephant Butte State Park (RV Sue)
  • Gallup
  • Los Alamos
  • Percha Dam State Park (RV Sue)
  • Santa Fe – October 2014
  • Roswell
  • Valley of Fires National Recreation Area (LoveYourRv)
  • White Sands (Rob Wilson)

New York

  • Adirondack
  • Corning – Teressa
    • Smithsonian Museum
  • Watkins Glen State Park (Incargonito)

North Carolina

  • Boone
  • Charleston – August 2015
    • Fort Sumter – August 2015
  • Cherokee
  • Cape Hatteras (Nandish) September 2015
  • Kitty Hawk – September 2015
  • Mount Airy – Mayberry
  • Outer Banks – September 2015
  • Roanoke River Lighthouse – September 2015

North Dakota

  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park
  • North Dakota Badlands

Oklahoma

Oregon

  • Bullards Beach State Park (LoveYourRv)
  • Farewell Bend State Park – June 2016
  • Fort Clatsop
  • Gold River – June 2017
  • Hood River – May 2017
  • Joseph
  • Koosah Falls
  • Leslie Gulch
  • Lower Lewis River Falls
  • McKenzie River
  • Ramona Falls
  • Rogue River
    • Siskiyou National Forest Natural Bridge Campground
  • Silver Falls State Park (June 2017)
  • Toketee Falls
  • Trillium Lake
  • Umpqua River
  • Upper Butte Creek Falls
  • Wallowa Valley
  • Yaquina Head May 2017

Pennsylvania

  • Gettysburg – September 2015
  • Jim Thorpe, Switzerland of Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

  • Little Compton fishing town – (Teresa)

South Carolina

South Dakota

  • Crazy Horse Memorial – July 2018
  • Lead City
  • Mount Rushmore National Memorial – July 2018

Tennessee

  1. Memphis
    • Graceland
  2. Mountain City (Jenny)
  3. Nashville
    • Bus Tour (Coy)
    • Country Music Hall of Fame – June 2015
    • Grand Ole Opry (Coy)

Texas

  1. Big Bend National Park
  2. Fredericksburg
  3. McKinney Falls State Park (Technomadia)
  4. Mustang Island
  5. Rockport
  6. South Padre Island

Utah

  1. Arches
  2. Bear Lake
  3. Bridal Veil Falls – May 2014
  4. Bryce Canyon – September 2016
  5. Canyon Rim
  6. Capitol Reef National Park
  7. Cedar Breaks – May 2014
  8. Dixie National Forest – May 2014
  9. Flaming Gorge
  10. Grand Staircase
    • Escalante
  11. Grotto Falls – May 2014
  12. Hovenweep National Monument
  13. Lake Utah – May 2014
  14. Natural Bridges National Monument
  15. Park City – May 2014
  16. Red Canyon – May 2014
  17. Thousand Lakes CG, Torrey (Jim Hinkle)
  18. Virgin City
    • Kabob Terrace Road
    • Kabob Reservoir
    • North Creek (Boondock camping)
  19. Red Rock Canyon – May 2014
  20. Zion Nation Park – May 2014
    • Dogs Allowed – Pa’rus trail only

Vermont

  1. Shelburne dairy farms

Virginia

  1. Damascus Blue Ridge Mountains
  2. Jamestown – August 2015
  3. Mount Vernon
  4. New River Trail State Park
  5. Williamsburg – August 2015

West Virginia

  1. Welch City
    • Elkhorn Creek
    • Kimball War Memorial

Washington

  1. Gifford-Pinchot National Forest
  2. Liberty Glen Campground
  3. Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge
  4. Mt Adams
  5. Mt Rainier
  6. Palouse Falls
  7. Port Angeles
  8. Port Townsend
  9. San Juan Islands (Jenny Johnson)
  10. Takhlakh Lake
  11. Two Rivers RV Park at Davenport

Wisconsin

  1. Door County (July 2018)

Wyoming

  1. Boyd Lake State Park – September 2014
  2. Cheyenne
  3. Cody Museum – September 2014
  4. Devils Tower (July 2018) Tennessee John
  5. Yellowstone – (2007, 2013, 2017)
    • Artist Point (Grand Canyon of Yellowstone)

Canada

Nova Scotia

  1. Halifax – Lighthouse (Nandish)