We are campers, former backpackers even. I bought a Sprinter and converted it into an RV......... packing light. As backpackers, we were able to eliminate the frills and excesses of available RV's.
In essence, we backpack in our van that is fully equipped and includes a diesel engine that gets 23 mpg.
Our first major trip was north to Alaska. We were two months on the road and traveled all over including making the 250 mile trip on mostly dirt roads to the Arctic circle. We returmes through Canada and a side trip again of afew hundred miles on dirt roads north to Fort Simpson on the Mckinsie river.
There is an excellent guide book available that guides you from place to place literally mile by mile. It makes navigation a snap, even with a GPS.
Since that 13,000 mile journey, we have traversed the country north to south following the Great River Road, a marked trail, south from Lake Itaska Minnesota, along the Mississippi river to the end of the road at Venice Lousianna. That is a fabulous trip and is America at it's very best.
Then, we picked up the Butterfield Trail in Memphis and followed it to the Wells Fargo Head Quarters in San Francisco. The Butterfield trail is named for the holder of the contract for the first transcontinental US Mail contract. It crosses Arkansas, Oklahoma, 900 miles across central Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Califirnia and up to San Francisco. It to passes through the genuine America we yearn for. The principles were Mr Butterfield who owned a bank called American Express and his counterpart at Wells Fargo. The growth of their business demanded actual documents to be transmitted by the mail. The delivery was guranteed in 23 days and it was alwas on time.
We like National Historical Trails and have traversed the Santa Fe Trail, The Natchez Trace and the Overmountain Victory Trail.
