Rockhound State Park, Rattlesnake Wrangling, Thanksgiving Trip Plan

From Rockhound State Park near Deming, New Mexico: Today marks one week that we've been camped here at Rockhound State Park, and we have loved it. The park and campground are located on a slope of the Little Florida Mountains, providing an expansive view of the valley below, all the way to Deming and beyond. …

October 2019 Expense Report – Full-time RV Living

It's time once again for our monthly expense report where we share the costs associated with our full-time RV life. We live in a 2014 24' Thor Chateau 22E Class C RV with our two cats, Maggie and Molly. We do not have a sticks-and-bricks home base, but travel wherever the weather takes us as …

Pancho Villa State Park, The Pink Store in Mexico, New Water Pump, Clothing Storage

From Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico: Today is Moving Day again! We just wrapped up our 14-day stay at Pancho Villa State Park, one of our favorite state parks in New Mexico. We stayed here last year over the Thanksgiving holiday and enjoyed it so much that we had to come back …

Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Water Pump Mysteries, Trip Planning Tools

From Elephant Butte Lake State Park near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico: We pulled out of Storrie Lake State Park near Las Vegas, New Mexico a week ago today and made the 278-mile drive to Elephant Butte Lake State Park. We arrived here without a reservation and found that all the first-come first-serve sites were …

Coyote Creek SP, Enchanted Circle, Geocache Trackable, Return to Storrie Lake SP, Dropping AAA

Currently at Storrie Lake State Park near Las Vegas, New Mexico: It's a rainy, cool 50° Friday morning morning here at Storrie Lake State Park. We arrived back here on Wednesday after leaving Coyote Creek State Park. But let me back up and review the last week or so. In our last blog update, we …

September 2019 Expense Report – Full-time RV Living

It's time once again for our monthly expense report where we share the costs associated with our full-time RV life. We live in a 24' Thor Chateau 22E Class C RV with our two cats, Maggie and Molly. We do not have a sticks-and-bricks home base, but travel wherever the weather takes us as we …

Storrie Lake Kite-Surfers, Old Flour Mills, Move to Coyote Creek State Park

Currently at Coyote Creek State Park near Guadalupita, New Mexico: We thoroughly enjoyed our one-week stay at Storrie Lake State Park just outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. If you remember from our last post, we had originally intended to only spend one night there, just to break up the drive from Bluewater Lake SP …

Oasis in Gallup, High-Risk Geocaching, Move to Storrie Lake SP, Breakfast at Charlie’s

From Storrie Lake State Park near Las Vegas, New Mexico: We've had a busy few days since our last update. It began with a funky smell in the RV. If you remember from our last post, we had begun to notice that whenever the air conditioner ran we would get a bad odor that seemed …

Hiking and Geocaching, Chaco Culture National Historic Park, How To Get Kicked Out of a State Park

From Bluewater Lake State Park near Prewitt, New Mexico: Today is our tenth day day here at Bluewater Lake SP, and we're still very happy with our location. After paying for our first week, we decided to go ahead and max out our stay (14 days), so we're paid up through Monday night and we'll …

Goodbye to the Forest, Hello New Mexico

Currently at Bluewater Lake State Park near Prewitt, New Mexico: The time finally came to say goodbye to our summertime forest home in the Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona. Altogether, we spent sixty-six days in that location, and we were both rather sad to leave it behind. But some things had changed since we …