Our latest adventure
2026-2027
After a year off we are heading out on another journey.
With a brand new camper loaded up on the truck we left Leduc for another winter down south. Our first camper was a test run to see if we could handle this lifestyle of living on the road for 4 or 5 months at time in a confined space and as it turns it out we can! Although the camper turned out to be a piece of junk, we enjoyed the lifestyle, adventure, and freedom that it gave us so we decided to upgrade to a much nicer, larger and better made model. We will keep you posted on how the upgrade is going!
November 11 – Sica Hollow State Park, SD – Lake Dolliver State Park, Iowa
A very quiet night in the state park. Technically it was closed for the season but that just means all services, if any, are shut off or locked for the winter. You are still allowed to camp/park but there is no power, water, showers, etc. We made our coffee and grabbed a light breakfast to eat in the truck and started south towards Sioux Falls. There is a nice in-city park at the falls so we took a break from driving and walked around for 45 minutes or so before making lunch and hitting the road again. Our next stop was a small town called West Bend which is famous for the largest manmade grotto in the world! Father Dobberstein, a German priest, started the grotto in 1912 after vowing to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary if he recovered from pneumonia. Well he recovered and 42 years later the grotto was finished. It encompasses a city block, comprises 9 connected grottos, and is made from millions of rare rocks, gems, petrified wood, and Italian marble. After our walk through and around the shrine we drove a little farther south to our stop for the night – Lake Dolliver State Park. This park still had some services available and we took advantage of having power for the night and an open dump station.
November 10 – Kennedy, Sk to Sica Hollow State Park, South Dakota
We got an early start from the farm to head south towards the U.S. border. The border crossing was uneventful, 5 minutes max, and we got to Minot before noon to fill up with supplies. We didn’t have a destination in mind and just decided to keep driving until we found a nice place to stop. After stopping in Jamestown, ND for fuel we did a bit of research and found a State Park just into South Dakota and decided to make that our stop for the night. According to the GPS we would arrive around 6 pm and that would be about a 9 hour day on the road and that was enough for us today. We didn’t know what the place looked like when we arrived as it was pitch black but we pulled into a campsite and settled in for the night.
November 7, 8 and 9 – Regina and Kennedy Saskatchewan
With everything working well with the truck and camper, and the weather cooperating, we left Leduc. Our first stop along the way was Regina to visit Cheryl’s family. After a couple of days there we took a short drive to southeast Saskatchewan to stop at Craig’s family farm to see everyone there.
November 6 – Leduc, AB
With the truck and camper fully stocked and loaded we hit the road towards Regina to visit family. We didn’t make it too far us the truck was giving us warning messages about an electrical system fault. The truck has an onboard power generator that can provide 110 AC power from the engine. We used this feature many times on the last camper and found it invaluable. We could run the microwave, a toaster oven, Cheryl’s hairdryer, etc. without needing external power. Whenever we tried to power up the generator it would give us a fault and turn itself off. We realized we could not continue our adventure with this not functioning so we set out to get it resolved. Our first stop was the Ford dealer to see if it had something to do with the truck but that was not the case. The technician sent us home and we performed a few tests and discovered the truck was producing electricity but as soon as we connected the camper it gave us the fault and shut off the generator for safety. We took the truck and camper back to our RV dealer and explained the problem to them and let them look at it. After a few hours they called us and said everything was good and we could come and get our camper. When I arrived, I plugged the camper back in to the truck and fired up the generator and the same fault occurred. After some more diagnosis and tests we found the culprit was a bad power cord. With a new factory cord we were powered up and ready to go. Unfortunately it was too late to hit the road so we went home and had one more night in Leduc before we started our next adventure.
Our new cord!
November 3, Leduc, Ab
We picked up our new camper today – a Lance 850. After looking at many models we both liked the 850 and decided that was the unit for us going forward. It has only been a short time with the new camper but we can already see the difference in build quality and features. Again, we will keep you posted as we go.