A Tullyroan Travelogue

There was always going to be a day which began like this. The fact that we rolled into the High and Dry RV Park late last night (having just moved from Mountain Time to Central Time and lost an hour) should have been a clue.  The High and Dry RV Park lived up to it’s […]

Road trips such as this one are a voyage of discovery. Some of the things that Malcolm has learned on this trip are that part of his family tree must have moved to Canada, had subsequently been enobled and then latterly discovered the ancient art of preparing the Uisce Beatha, the water of life, or […]

Waking up, I felt a repetitive banging noise going on inside my head. Where was that coming from? Was it due to the rare cask-strength Scotch that Malkie had produced round the campfire the previous evening, for slow contemplative sipping. Hardly. More likely the half bottle of Bushmills that Uncle Stephen unwisely left in the RV and which also […]

Having hammered down the Montana interstate (until recently, no speed limit) to cross the border into Wyoming last night, we thought a few hours’ respite had been earned, so we took a slow morning observing and fancying ourselves part of the lazy rhythms of the quintessential western town of Ranchester. Whilst Ryan happily tinkered with […]

Every holiday I seem to go on I face the same dilemma. The tourist hotspots draw you towards them like a magnet.  They are highlighted on the map, there are endless roadside signs encouraging you to take the exit in 40 miles, then 10 miles, then 5 miles and somehow the names of these places […]

We all wake early to a bright, clear and very cold morning. Last night we made it to Deer Lodge, MT. The RV park had a notice to find our own space and to drop the $30 in a letter box. Of course we did, we’re RVers now, and we abide. The reason it’s so […]

Our rig on this trip really has everything you could ask for in a home: kitchen, bathroom,  bedroom and living room. And with all mod cons: oven, shower, air con and satellite TV. Another thing we have is a washing machine dryer… So last night we decided to do a wash overnight, because you wouldn’t […]

I am writing this from the comfort of my notably soft and luxurious bed, whilst Ryan, Malkie and Maisy guide us though the north-west corner of Montana up front. Although perhaps not the safest travelling arrangement, it is in fact legal to cruise at your functional leisure without a seatbelt in a motorhome within America, […]

Day 2 began earlier than I had hoped – 3.57am.  The following hours involved rolling around in bed hoping to go back to sleep, checking the weather forecast at various locations on our route (which included a mixture of sun, rain, snow and thunderstorms) and trying to find highlights of Ulster’s win over Edinburgh on […]

The second day of driving has swept us along into our third state: Idaho, via a short cut through Washington. Amazing to feel the difference in climate here, cooler and damper. No, it’s not because we are closer to Ireland. We’re in the Idaho panhandle and looking towards the foothills of the Rockies. Mentioning the […]