• Headed East

    Greetings! This will be the last blog that you will have to read from us for…

  • Pacific Northwest

    THE BIZARRE TIES TO 1979 AND THE AZIMUTH SKI SHOP! Greetings from the Pacific Northwest! It’s…

  • California Dreamin…..

    Greetings from the golden state! We arrived in California the day before the family joined us.…

  • Rapple Family Vacation

    Nearly halfway through our journey! It’s difficult to believe that we’ve been gone a month, but…

  • Poverty to Excess

    From Arizona Reservation to Las Vegas Nevada Our time in the National Parks is on a…

  • Exploring the Colorado Plateau

    Written by guest author: Randy Rapple Mariann has allowed me to be a guest columnist for…

  • Heading North

    We were sitting in our retro motel room in Tucumcari when we decided to leave RT66…

  • RT 66

    RT 66

    In the fashion of true confession, not to mention a clear conscience, I forgot to mention…

  • Barbecue, Bands and Baseball Boys

    BARBECUE AND BANDS Greetings from the road! When we first discussed what we hoped to accomplish…

  • AND THE ADVENTURE BEGINS

    Our first 1000 miles Fifty nine days after Randy’s official retirement day, we packed the car…