Roamsters.com: Rosalind Gardner's Travel Blog
From the Backyard to Borneo and Beyond
Scan through the posts below to learn about trips to China, Malaysia, Europe, the U.S., Northern Africa and more. We’ve also recently joined the RV set, so I write about our experiences on the road as well.
I stood at the front door talking with someone the other day and found my foot blocking egress to an imaginary animal. Our dog, Jasper, was in the back yard and Vic was gone — to kitty heaven. Almost a month and a half, and it’s still hard to fathom — my precious kitty is [...]
I don’t much care for water or wet things. I try to stay out of the rain and refuse to walk on wet grass. So, it was a shock to me when we were staying at East Harbor State Park on Lake Erie and my mother took me to the beach and pulled me into [...]
On May 14th, we left Penticton for Lakeview, Ohio to pick up our new trailer. As Lakeview is a mere 8-hour drive from my mother’s place in Toronto, we made that our ultimate destination. On the way eastbound, (before we had the trailer), we overnighted in and saw places around: Spokane, Washington (pics) Butte, Montana [...]
The sign that greeted our arrival at the entrance to Antelope Island State Park near Layton, Utah was “the biting gnats are bad”. Equipped with various forms of deet, we were not to be deterred from visiting. After a month on the road, we were ready for a ‘real vacation’ — time to kick back, [...]
We were at the KOA in Salt Lake City on June 11th, 2010 — my 4 month birthday. My parents, Ed and Ros, surprised me with Fido cookies, birthday hats and singing “Happy Birthday” (badly and out of tune) to me just after dinnertime. I didn’t care much for the hat. But they can sing [...]
From Rock Springs, Wyoming we had planned to head up to the Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks, but a weather forecast for 4 days and nights of snow forced us to reconsider those destinations. Consulting the map, we saw that Salt Lake City was a mere 3 hour drive west, so off we went to [...]
I was out taking pictures of the approaching cumulonimbus (thunder) clouds against a scenic mountain backdrop at the KOA in Rock Springs, Wyoming; with the lyrics of Cheap Trick’s “Rock ‘n Roll” Tonight” running through my brain when a single drop of rain hit my face. A second later, the wind picked up and the [...]
