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to Yuma… and back…
We had originally planned to stay at LaPosa South until it was time to leave for Twenty Nine Palms on 3/23. Pam approached us with a different plan – she had an extra 3 days FREE FHU site at a resort...
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Q – second time around…
Bill and I had decided we wanted to see some of the stuff to see around Quartzsite. We hadn’t done a lot of that our first week here b/c we were so busy visiting with friends and they had all already...
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Family Time – 29 Palms & Joshua Tree NP
Our jacks were lifted and tanks were dumped when we turned right onto Rt 95 N on-time at 10am. The original plan was to leave by 10am – drive 3 hours and arrive by noon. “How’s that?” you are...
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Santa Barbara
This is our first time in this area; we came here for 2 reasons – 1) it is more north than we were in 29 Palms (hence closer to our goal of AK!) and 2) to visit with Jo & Ben! They drove to see...
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Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequioas – OH MY!
After an uneventful 4 1/2 hour drive, we arrived in Coarsegold, CA. We stayed at SKP Park of the Sierras, an Escapee park. Their rates are very reasonable to begin with, but then since we were first...
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Cotati and Klamath
This was our second visit to Cotati, CA; the first time was back in 2004, when we visited with our kids in tow. We had flown into LAX and rented a car, we visited with my sister-in-law, who was living...
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Crater Lake and Oregon Coast
For our visit to Crater Lake – we stayed at an OR State Park with the coolest name – Valley of the Rogue State Park. We were only there 2 nights – we wanted to drive up and see Crater Lake for the day...
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Friend time in Vancouver, WA
When planning out route through CA, OR and WA, I purposely included a few nights in Vancouver WA. Some of you may be wondering why, while it is a very nice city and has lots to do, it isn’t usually a...
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Seattle!
Our jacks were up, truck hitched and we were on the road before 10am, the day we headed to Seattle! Again, a fairly short drive day was in front of us, and most of it was interstate, which makes it...
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Crossing into Canada! (and dialing 911!)
Bellingham WA was our last stop before crossing into Canada. We met up with a couple, Linda and Steve (The Chouters & Scoopy), who I “met” on RVillage. RVillage is a website, sort of like...
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Continuing in Canada…
Before I start today’s post, I have to give proper credit for my “featured pic” with is the large one above the title “Continuing in Canada…” – it was taken by our travel buddy, Steve Dempsey, who is a...
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WOW! My new most used word!
As I start this post, it is a rainy cold day here in HAINES, ALASKA! OMG! Can you believe it? I’ve got potatoes baking in the propane and convection ovens, making some potato soup! It’s a perfect...
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Haines AK! (and some Skagway too!)
I left you last time with a small teaser of our time in Haines. The ride down was spectacular! Amazing! Beautiful! We got set up and settled in for our first days in Alaska! We enjoyed our happy...
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Final Push to Seward!
It was not the easiest thing I’ve ever done, packing up to leave Haines AK. Bill and I were both feeling it, while at the same time, we knew it was time to move on to new places on down the road. We...
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First Week at Renfros Lakeside Retreat
As I mentioned last time, we arrived at our Alaskan home early afternoon, and was greeted by our host and boss, Gary. He showed us which site would be our summer home, and Bill got the rig parked in...
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Getting to Alaska
Might seem like a strange title – as most of you (my faithful readers) know – we are already in Alaska. I’ve just been thinking about this post for quite awhile now, how did we get here? What did we...
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Getting Settled…
We’ve been here at Renfros Lakeside Retreat for just over 2 weeks as I begin this post. We’ve worked our first week and today is the last day of our first week off. When I left off last time, (in the...
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Working away…
Just to start the post off right – the featured pic is my view at the exact moment I started typing – you may be getting bored of it – thankfully I am NOT! It’s been a beautiful day – mid 70’s and no...
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Home in Homer…
I left off last time after a (mostly) boring work week – which means this week we are OFF! We had decided we needed a sweet treat so a stop at Harbor Creamery was called for. One word – YUM! just...
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A Month Gone By Already?
It’s amazing to consider – we’ve been here in Seward a month already! How crazy is that?! As I start this post, it is 4:25am on July 1st! I’ve experiencing some insomnia. I get it about once a month...
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