We’re Tony & Peggy Barthel and we’re working to help you be a StressLess Camper.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we enjoyed Da Yoopers Tourist Trap and traveled to our last destination together: Hancock City campground.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we visited Kitch-iti-kipi spring and overlooked Munising waterfall and Miners Castle picture rock.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we went to Lakenenland and to Marquette for some good food and laundry day.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we changed campsites at Bay Furnace campground and took a glass-bottom boat tour to see the remains of the Bermuda and Herman Hettler shipwrecks.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we traveled from southeast Upper Peninsula to Bay Furnace campgound in Hiawatha National Forest.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we road a ferry to explore Mackinac Island.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we crossed the bridge to the Upper Peninsula
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we visited Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we visited Traverse City and Mission Point Lighthouse.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we had our first pasty and checked in to Interlochen State Park.
StressLess Camping Tony and Peggy join friend Bill and his pup Zappo on a Michigan adventure. Today we visited Frankenmuth and Bronner's Christmas Wonderland. Then we stayed at Leaman’s Green Applebarn Harvest Host.
Established in 1948, Camp Dearborn, the city’s unique 626-acre recreational retreat in Milford, offers a wide range of overnight camping options, including rustic cabins and resort cabins, as well as sites for camper-provided tents or trailers. Camp Dearborn’s exceptional amenities include: a half-mile of sandy beach, athletic fields and tennis courts, shaded picnic areas, swimming and fishing lakes, concession stand and a 27-hole championship golf course.
Tony and Peggy take a road trip through Michigan with Bill and his pup Zappo.
TinkerTown Museum - an incredible collection of Americana in miniature
What's there to do and where can I camp in my RV in Santa Fe, New Mexico
What’s there to do in southeastern New Mexico? What kinds of day trips can you enjoy if staying at Bottomless Lakes State Park? We have a few ideas and suggestions for great affordable day trips along with a great place to stay.
What is there to do in New Orleans, Louisiana? Is the hype real and is this a place to visit? Where should you go and what should you see - and what should you avoid? Is the city safe? We answer these questions in this in-depth article.
Our traveling geologist, Peggy, takes a look at the incredible geology that is Mammoth Cave as we venture to Mammoth Cave National Park where we meet someone whose family member was one of the original people to map-out the cave.
Some of the highlights of our much-too-short visit to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Dollywood in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains.
Casey Jones is a railroad legend who was a real engineer and we pay a visit to the museum and destination dedicated to his memory. Part of this stop on our journey through Tennessee includes spending the night at a distillery and a buffet with lots of highlights of southern cooking.
