2020 Travel: Where We Plan to Go This Year
Wondering where we are heading this year? We are just finishing up the reservations for the rest of 2020. Of course, there's a chance that our plans will change and we will decide to stay…
2019 Travel Recap: Where Did We Go?
In a nutshell, during our eight months of fulltime living in 2019, we stayed in twenty-one different locations (not including an overnight at my sister’s and one night in a hotel while our rig was…
How Do You Picture the Desert?
A nephew’s wedding in Phoenix in mid-January and Brian’s cousin’s wedding in Las Vegas in mid-February provided the events around which we planned our travels for the winter. Being in the desert for the winter…
Usery Mountain Regional Park
Usery Mountain Regional Park came up in our search for a campground in the Phoenix/Mesa/Gilbert area. With 73 individual “developed” campsites accommodating RVs up to 45-feet in length, it was possible for us. Ultimately, we…
Sentinel Peak RV Park
Sentinel RV Park (http://sentinelpeakrv.com/) in downtown Tucson proved to be a great place for us to spend the week of Christmas 2019. With only twenty-three sites, this is the smallest park in which we’ve stayed. …
A Day in Saguaro National Park
If you asked me before our December visit to Saguaro National Park if the word lush was an adjective ever used to describe the desert, I would have adamantly said, "No way!" I admit that…
Another Day in My Life with Brian
“Any chance that you happened to have seen my pajama bottoms?” I asked Brian one night after dinner when I couldn’t find them. I had checked my clothes drawers and cupboard as well as the…
Eating Out in Quartzsite
While we didn’t eat in ALL of the restaurants in Quartzsite during our time there in December, we did check out several of them. A few things that you might like to know about the…
Our First Christmas on the Road
Upon our arrival at Sentinel RV Park in downtown Tucson on December 23rd, I very briefly met a man whose Class A motorhome was parked next to our assigned site. In the 90-second conversation that…
Palm Canyon in Kofa Wildlife Refuge
The decision to leave Quartzsite early triggered a sense of urgency to see and do things that we had taken note of in and around the area, including a trip to Kofa National Wildlife Refuge’s…