March 2020 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 do not have a sticks-and-bricks home base, but travel wherever the weather takes us as we chase 70°. In March 2020, we completed our 19th month as full-time RVers. When we started our full-time …

Pancho Villa State Park, Things Are Getting Crowded, Cabalgata Binacional

Currently located at Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico: We just started our second week here at Pancho Villa, and it continues to be one of our favorite places to stay. This campground has 79 developed sites, 75 of them with at least 30 amp electricity. Only 6 of the sites are reservable, …

February 2020 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 do not have a sticks-and-bricks home base, but travel wherever the weather takes us as we chase 70°. In February 2020, we completed our 18th month as full-time RVers. When we started our full-time …

January 2020 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 do not have a sticks-and-bricks home base, but travel wherever the weather takes us as we chase 70°. In January 2020, we completed our 17th month as full-time RVers. When we started our full-time …

A Love/Hate Relationship, Finally Out of Texas

Currently at Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico: Oh, my, where to begin... When we last left you in our previous blog post, we had just pulled out of Livingston, Texas in our new-to-us rig, on our way west toward Yuma, Arizona. Our goal was to keep our travel days at around 200 …

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 …

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 …

Boondocking – From Asphalt to BLM

As you know, we spent the first three months of our full-time RV life connected to electricity and water hookups, with an occasional sewer connection. We stayed in state parks and private campgrounds where there were dump stations and showers, but also camping fees. Well, we've changed things up considerably in our fourth month. We've …

Museum, Enchilada Fries and We Go Solar

We're down to our last few days here in New Mexico and we're trying to make the most of them before we pull up stakes and head to Arizona for the winter. On Wednesday morning we visited the Columbus Depot Museum which is housed in the old train depot and operated by the Columbus Historical …

Quick Notes from Pancho Villa SP in New Mexico

We're still happily parked at Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico, just three miles north of the US/Mexico border and the Mexican town of Palomas. We haven't done anything super-exciting, so I thought I'd just give you some quick notes from the past few days--this is real life for us. Last Saturday was …