Welcome to a bonus post in our Alaska series….not centered on Alaska or Canada. We decided that on our way back to New Mexico, we would hit up some of Nevada, Utah and Arizona’s National Parks and Monuments. Well, some…
Empire Ranch (Las Cienegas)
After Big Bend (was that really a month ago?), we wandered back to Las Cruces to check in with our home builder, then decided to head back to Arizona because, well, it was warmer there. This has been a travel…
Chasing 70 (degrees…not years).
Let’s first start with the good news. Following up on the E. Coli knee infection from last August, Jim had a tele-medicine with the infectious disease doctor back in Rochester a few days ago. All his blood infection markers look…
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…
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…
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
Serendipity is a wonderful thing. So is not having a schedule. While we were in Needles, California, Wade and Debi reached out to us. We first met Wade and Debi while boondocking at Gunsight Wash last year and met up…
Wisconsin meetup in the desert
Our next stop was Lost Dutchman State Park in Apache Junction, Arizona (just east of Phoenix). Our full-time RVing friends Dan and Amy had told us that they were going to be there and their site number. Lost Dutchman is…
Westward Ho!
We had discovered the Texas coast of the Gulf of Mexico could be damp and well, yucky, in January. Our plan of wandering around Texas would have to wait for another time. Still, our coastal experience brought a surprise. I…