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 …

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 …

The Wedding Cache, End of Hiking, September Travel Plans Made

From Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona: It's still definitely summer here at 8,100', although the daytime temperatures rarely exceed 81° or 82°. There hasn't been any rain for several weeks, ever since the very-timely week of moisture that came through the area just in time to help battle the Museum Fire back in late …

Hello, 911, We Need a Rescue

We're just starting our fifth full day in our latest campsite on Forest Road 151, just north of Flagstaff, Arizona. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect place to park for a couple of weeks. The view of Humphrey's Peak over the pine trees above our rig is magnificent, although the snow is starting …

Fun in the Desert, Agua Fria National Monument, Back to the Forest

Wow, didn't realize it had been ten days since my last post! Time to catch up! Yesterday was moving day, and we're in a new location now, but first I'll share some of what we've been up to for the past ten days at our camp on Bloody Basin Road BLM land near Mayer, Arizona. …

Blog Changes, Geocaching, Drive to Crown King, RV Mattress Upgrade

Welcome back to the blog! You may notice a slightly different look this week. I've made a few changes that I hope you'll enjoy. I've added a new page to the blog called "Where We've Been", which is a chronological list of the places we've camped since we hit the road on September 1, 2018. …

Exploring Wickenburg, Leaving Camp Vulture, Moochdocking in Yarnell

All good things must come to an end. Our fourteen days were up on our BLM campsite south of Wickenburg on Vulture Mine Road, which I named Camp Vulture. It was certainly one of our most favorite camping locations, and we were sorry we had to leave, but the weather is starting to warm up …

Weather Report, More Geocaching, Saturday in Mexico

Pilot Knob BLM LTVA - Southern California, just west of Yuma, AZ Happy Monday morning, everyone! I just watched a beautiful sunrise and realized once again just how fortunate Andy and I are to be able to leave the rat race behind and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Hope you are also living your …

Pilot Knob LTVA, Solar Power, Geocaching, Los Algodones Mexico, Missing Family

We just spent our twelfth night boondocking here at the Pilot Knob BLM LTVA (that's Bureau of Land Management Long Term Visitor Area). So far we are really enjoying it, even though we haven't spent a whole lot of time exploring the area. The first few days we were here were spent getting our solar …