Day 1 – Beat The Heat 2021 Road Trip

We're on the road again! We pulled out of Deming this morning around 8:50 AM after spending the last couple of days getting the rig loaded up and organized. We plan to be gone for 25 nights, traveling first to Colorado to the Durango area, and then skipping around to five different state parks in …

The Great “We-Beat-Covid” Roadtrip – Days 35-40 | Cost and Statistics

Greetings from our home base in Deming, New Mexico! We arrived home on Wednesday, June 9, on the 40th day of our epic road trip to visit family and friends after receiving vaccinations for COVID-19. We were tired and a little road-weary, but we couldn't have asked for a better experience. It was well-worth all …

Days 25-34 of the Great “We-Beat-Covid” Road Trip

Greetings from the Stage Stop Campground near Neosha, Missouri! We pulled in here yesterday for a two-night stay, allowing us to take a break from driving, get a load of laundry done, and spend some time planning our final stops on our way home. But what's been going on for the past ten days? Glad …

The Great “We-Beat-Covid” Roadtrip Days 5-24

Greetings, everyone! Didn't mean to leave you hanging after our last post back on Day 4 of our epic roadtrip. But once we made it to Mississippi and met up with family, there were more important things to spend time doing than blogging. On top of that, we had an absolutely terrible internet connection most …

The Great “We-Beat-Covid” Road Trip Begins!

Greetings, everyone, from the Cactus Rose RV Park on I-20 near Mingus, Texas! Today is Day 4 of our long-awaited road trip where we're celebrating the end of quarantine and looking forward to being with family again. We've been vaccinated, as have most of our family members, so we're anticipating some big ole Southern hugs …

Shakedown #2 | Rockhound | Pancho Villa

Greetings from our home base in Deming, New Mexico! We just returned from a ten-day outing to a couple of nearby state parks, arriving back home yesterday just before noon. Although we didn't travel far, we accomplished our twin objectives of checking out all the systems on Lizzy 3 as well as enjoying being out …

Latest Mods and Upgrades to Lizzy 3

Greetings from our home base in Deming, New Mexico! It's been eleven days since we returned from our first shakedown cruise in Lizzy 3, and we've been busy implementing some of the modifications that we added to our wish list on that trip. First on the project list was the installation of tire valve extenders …

Lizzy 3 Shakedown Wrap-Up, Leasburg Dam

Greetings from our home base in Deming, New Mexico! We made it home on Tuesday after spending four nights at Leasburg Dam State Park near Radium Springs, concluding our eight-night shakedown cruise in our new rig, Lizzy 3. If you read our last post, you know that we spent the first four nights dry-camping at …

Lizzy 3 Shakedown – City of Rocks

Greetings, everyone, from our beautiful campsite in one of the most scenic and unique landscapes in all of the Southwest USA--City of Rocks State Park near Faywood, New Mexico. Our home in City of Rocks State Park As it happens, this little gem of a park is only about 30 miles north of our home …

Inside Lizzy 3 | Prepping for Our First Outing

We've been the happy owners of Lizzy 3 for a little over a month now, and we're still so excited! It just makes my heart happy to look out my dining room window and see her parked in the driveway right next to our home base, just waiting for us to take her on a …