In late April we found ourselves close to Zion National Park. Covid had closed most everything but the road through most of Zion NP was open so off we went! We were able to see a lot of it, but the road into the park itself was closed. As always…

Wow! We got so many changes completed this summer. Our home is beautiful. Let’s see – we reupholstered the captains chairs – we installed blinds in the front – Kate made curtains for the other windows – we installed a new kitchen – new kitchen lights – new awning with…

As most of you know, Max crossed the Rainbow Bridge a couple of months ago. He loved traveling with us but he was old and couldn’t get around very well. Finally congestive heart failure took him. He was wonderful and will always be loved and missed. Kate and I lasted…

We’ve had quite a months adventure in the last few days! We left the Arizona State Trust Land because they were forecasting 100+ degrees. The drive to Winslow was uneventful and we stayed at the state park there. Very nice and we met a couple of very nice folks who…

Like most people in the country, our plans have yielded to the C-virus. While neither of us has been sick with it – although we think Kate might have had a mild version of it in January – we are staying at our RV and not doing much. Our black…

We moved from Arizona Conservation land to an RV park in Camp Verde because the expected rain would have flooded us and mired us in mud. It put us a little further north so we could do some sightseeing in that direction. We decided to see Montezuma’s Castle and the…

We were struggling to find a good place to boondock in the Phoenix area. The places we liked were soaking wet and the places that were dry weren’t very interesting. So – we drove the 150 miles south to one of our favorite places, Fortuna Pond, just outside of Yuma.…

Everything needs charging and uses a different cord! I have tried many different ways to keep the cord clutter under control. I spread them out throughout the camper and that just looked awful. I tried hanging them and they got tangled. I tried storing them in a cupboard and always…

Max joined my family in the spring of 2007, as a 2 year old rescue. He arrived on a transport from Alabama. At first he was scared of everything. You could corral him just by putting and extension cord in a circle around him. He has grown into the most…

It doesn’t matter whether you have built your camper from scratch on a nothing budget, or you just purchased a brand new Tiffin RV. The one thing that makes us all equal is that we must deal with our poo. Granted, some campers have fancier methods for getting the poo…

El Dorado Hot Springs is about 30 miles west of Phoenix and we tried it out yesterday. It is a very unassuming facade and we weren’t sure what we were getting ourselves into. I parked and went in to see what it was like. The fellow at the table said…

Kate and I went to Slab City to see what was going on. Slab city is in Eastern California about even with LA. It was an old military base that was dismantled leaving only the concrete slabs. About 600 people have decided to make this home, in any sort of…

Really sexy title isn’t it… My teeth have been hurting and being problematic for several months – or years – depending on your view. Kate finally convinced me that since we were so close to the border we should go to “Molar City” and get things taken care of. Smart…

A small city in the middle of the mountains We have spent about three weeks here in Lake Havasu City. The city was incorporated in 1963 and was the site of McCulloch chainsaw manufacturing. He then went to London and purchased a bridge. It was dismantled and delivered to the…

This is BLM (Bureau of Land Mgmt) land around a small pond just 3 miles from Yuma. There are approximately 35 places to park around the pond. What a blissful place. They stock the pond and their are birds chirping and mountains around. Most people park about ten feet from…

The Courtyard Gallery in Wenden, Arizona is amazing in so many ways. It is a repurposed motel. Different artists have rooms, some of which they live in, and display their artwork for sale. If you see my denim hat in other blog entries – I got it here. We spent…

We are incredibly lucky! We have met the most interesting, and fun people on this journey. We are spending a week at an informal RV park east of Quartzsite with about 50 other people who have gathered for a good time. This includes music, adult games, adventures, fires, fireworks, great…

Kind of a long post – we had lots of fun here. We have come west from the Phoenix area to a little pond called Fortuna Pond. It is maybe 25 acres, about a half hour walk around the whole thing. People park their campers or vans or cars or…

We left Albuquerque and headed south to Deming. It has been on my list for several years. The family story was that My great grandfather Edwin Brown was head of the Red Cross in Deming and was basically in charge of everything. I have always wanted to stop and find…

We went here on the same day as the Painted Desert. They are connected by a 25 mile road so it is really easy. There are lots of turn-offs to stop and take pictures and revel in the beauty. National Parks 0 views0 commentsPost not marked as liked Recent Posts…

Wonderspace is a gallery in the mall in Scottsdale. They give areas to artists for large expressions. A couple that really caught my was the Confessions, the room of light, and the singing plants. Confessions was made of two parts. The first is the confessional – private booths where you…

This was our first stay at a “resort”. It is a mobile home park that rents out empty spots to RVers. We spent the whole month of November there. Such a struggle – pool, hot tub that could seat 40, library, woodshop, craftshop, onsite laundry. It was a nice change…

What an experience. The festival goes for two weeks and we decided the day before it ends that we would like to go. We got up at 4:30 in the morning to drive in. The plan was to find a parking lot close to the field and watch them take…

What is there to say – cars buried in the sand…

Kate lives in Spearfish, about 15 miles from Sturgis so of course I had to go see what it is like. Picture old, overweight men and women drinking and laughing, and hobbling around. Oh, and then there are the near naked women trying to advertise of there products. Next year…

In the past I have worked to connect with someone in a community that I am going to visit. In this way I get a local view, I get someone to show me around, and I get to share the visit with someone. Kate and I had been talking online…

I started this project with trepidation. I don’t know very much about cars/trucks and was worried that this lack of knowledge would cause problems. It didn’t! And the results have been very gratifying. There had been a leak in the roof above the passenger seat and it had rotted the…

Almost as soon I bought the camper I realized that it would need a new floor. There were some soft spots and the person who had installed the previous floor hadn’t done a good, or even, decent job. It was a masonite backed snap in floor and when it got…

Slab city is located in southern California. It is an old army base that was deconstructed, all that is left are the slabs that used to be buildings. – hence the name. It has become the home to a few hundred folks who want the ultimate in independence. There is…

I got tired of the cold winters in Maine. I wanted to do something other than just sit around. I wanted to explore! I bought an old (1997) class A motorhome and off I went, with Max, my old Basset Hound. This blog will show, mostly in photos, what the…