The following is an email (with the subject line reading “Fun <not>”) that Jim recently sent to a couple of friends. It details all the fun he DIDN’T have once we got back from our Spring travels. It was too…
Sticks-and-Bricks Spring 2020
We are finally back in our Sticks-and-Bricks home. Notice I qualified that statement with Sticks-and-Bricks (what homes NOT on wheels are made of), because the Blue Flame is our home also. Our trip home from Arizona back to New York…
Sixty-six days of togetherness
It all started innocently enough. On February 9th, we received an email from our friends Dan and Amy that said: “Would it cramp your style too much to have traveling buddies for a month prior to FMCA? Whether you go…
18 days in the desert
We are back in civilization after spending 18 days in self isolation in the Sonoran Desert. My last blog detailed some of what we did to occupy our time. Our friends Dan and Amy, who we are traveling with, just…
Desert Social Distancing – Day 9
My email inbox and phone are starting to be inundated with people asking how we are doing. So it is probably time to do a blog post. It is now Day 9 of our boondocking experience south of Quartzsite, Arizona.…
Social Distancing in a RV
This is just a quick update. We have left the cold elevations of northern Arizona for the warmer climes of southern Arizona. Ahhhh, this feel much better. On our way to our present location, we stopped west of Phoenix to…
Wandering in Arizona
I have another blog post in the queue from a side trip we took from Death Valley. But honestly, I’m not in the mood to post a “look at all the cool things we saw, life is wonderful” blog with…
Beatty, Nevada
While in Death Valley, Dan wanted to get a full tank of diesel fuel in his truck for the trip out of Death Valley (pulling a big fifth wheel takes plenty of fuel). Diesel in Death Valley was $5.37 a…
Death Valley
Death Valley is AWESOME!!! WE had no idea what to expect before we arrived and what we found blew our minds. We are still traveling with Dan and Amy, so we caravaned from Sawtooth Canyon to Death Valley, by way…
Sawtooth Canyon
UPDATE (3/7/2020): You can see some drone footage of our stay at Sawtooth Canyon on Dan and Amy’s blog at https://danandamyk.com/2020/03/07/sawtooth-canyon/. After our 8 days in civilization in Indio, it was time to move on. Our friends Dan and Amy…