Texas – southern part
- Apr
- 12
We left Las Cruces and headed to Texas, through El Paso, of course. We didn’t have time to check it out or stay here as we needed to be in San Antonio in 2 days. Being such a long drive, we broke it into 2 trips, landing first in Fort Stockton, at the Fort Stockton […]
read moreNew Mexico – southern
- Apr
- 11
From Southern Arizona, we made our way to Las Cruces. We stayed at Hacienda RV Resort which was rather nice. This is still a Western town and this park reflects that. The town of Las Cruces, itself, is a good mix of old and new. A lot of historic parts. Downtown area was empty, but […]
read moreArizona – second trip
- Apr
- 11
Arizona The Second trip trip to Arizona picks up about 10 days later. We need to be in Tucson for a conference in a few days, but we need to get a Tow Car. You can read the whole story about getting the tow car here. It’s a long 12+ hour day of crazy. This […]
read moreArizona – first trip
- Apr
- 11
ARIZONA: Our first pass into Arizona, we did the Northern route. We stayed at Arizona Oasis RV Park in Ehrenberg, which is the Arizona side of the border, right on the Colorado River. We stayed here a few times, once for this trip, again, when we went back to CA after this trip, and then […]
read moreWe finally got a tow car
- Apr
- 05
It’s been 5 months now that we’ve been on the road. But for the first 3 months we didn’t tow a car. Mostly because we were just hanging out in our home town area and getting used to life in an RV. We had always wanted to tow, but neither of our cars were towable, and […]
read moreLearnings from 2 months living in an RV
- Jan
- 01
Two months ago we started out. In fact, Halloween night was our first night in our RV. We stayed at a park just outside Disneyland where we could see and hear the fireworks up close to celebrate. After two months there are a few things I’ve learned about living in an RV. The first realization […]
read moreDiscovering all the things I need to fix on the RV
- Nov
- 12
So we’ve spent about 12 days now on the RV and discovered a few things that aren’t working quite the way we’d like. When we were looking at RVs, we brought an inspector who gave us a list of things he could see. And we remedied some of those. And we knew there were a […]
read moreFirst night in the new RV – a leak
- Nov
- 04
Well, some people say they have one of those days, but me… I have one of those lives! OK, so a bit dramatic, but we spent our first night in the 2007 Hurricane 34B, just outside of Disneyland. We found a park that had available spots, booked it, and drove it there. Only the 2nd […]
read moreFinally, we got an RV
- Nov
- 01
After our false start at buying an RV from a dealer, we went back to private parties. We originally we’re going to do the ‘5th wheel’ thing, but for convenience and less stress, we opted for a Class-A. We ended up ‘buying’ a Class A from a dealer, but that didn’t go so well, so […]
read moreOops, not so fast
- Oct
- 08
Today was the day we were set to take delivery of our new RV. But as I often say “Some people have one of those days… *I have one of those lives!” So we show up at our appointed time to the dealer. After we put a deposit on a storage space we’d need for […]
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