Selling your house, leaving your job and downsizing from over 2000 sq. ft. to about 200 sq. ft. brings with it some excitement but also some worry. Now that we’ve been in the RV full-time for over a year,…
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Although we were in the RV part of 2020, we spent the holidays in our San Ramon home that year. I was apprehensive about the holiday season full-time in the RV, but thanks to wonderful friends and family our…
After living in the Bay Area for 20 years, we’ve driven Highway 1 along the coast a few times but it wasn’t until this last winter with the RV that Doug and I had a chance to drive it…
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California and I’d never heard of it! It’s located in the Colorado/Sonoran Desert of southern California, is about an hour and half from San Diego and essentially surrounds the…
I’m a huge U2 fan so I couldn’t resist the title of this blog. U2’s fifth album titled “Joshua Tree” is frequently listed among the greatest albums off all time and is one of the world’s best selling albums…
In July of 1986, Life magazine dubbed Nevada Highway 50 “The Loneliest Road in America” and the title stuck! The article claimed there were “no points of interest” along the route and warned readers not to risk traveling it…
During our first visit to the Olympic National Park in 2020 we visited the top sites and they’re phenomenal, so I highly recommend those if you’ve never been (see post here and here). I said it then, and I’ll say…
Northeast of Bellingham WA and barely south of the Canadian border stands Mount Baker, a heavily glaciated volcano in the Cascade Mountains. Scroll through the pictures above for a glimpse of this area! Mount Baker, at over 10,000 feet,…
I’ve heard that true friendship is not about being inseparable, but about being separated and finding nothing changes. This is how exactly how I fell about my friend Carol. We’ve had long stretches where we talked daily and others…
We’ve mentioned before that one thing we love about our RV is the huge front window. It’s like the difference between TV and an IMAX movie screen. The larger view makes driving days special, pulling us right into the…