Thanksgiving Report & I Buy Myself a Black-Friday Christmas Present
In my last post I invited all vandwellers who were nearby to join us in Quartzsite for a Tribal Thanksgiving Celebration and 18 of you responded and came! In today's post I want to give you a report on how it turned out. The next day was Black Friday and that's the...
Baby Steps: Buying an Older Class C RV
(In the next week all my websites are going to be undergoing major renovations. The chances are very good that the transition is going to bumpy and messy. I can only ask that you be patient and forgive me for the inconvenience.) In this post I want to talk again about...
Road Trip Summary: Part 1 MPG of Chevy Express Vans, Peg-Board in a Van
As I am writing this Judy and I are back in Cottonwood, Az and our road trip is over. After we had been at Moab for two weeks, we were undecided whether we would continue the trip or go home, so we flipped a coin and the coin said to keep going. The next day we left...
Baby Steps to Changing Your Life Part II: He Who Dies With the Most Memories–WINS!
"When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch." ~Author unknown, from a television commercial Recently my good friends Beth and Forrest had a post on their blog that just tremendously moved me, and I want to share some thoughts I had...
Baby Steps Towards Following Your Dreams
The question for each person to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a person ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and...
Report From the Road: I Skydive Moab!
For a long time I have known that before I die I was going to jump out of an airplane. I can’t tell you why I have known that, I just have. The first time it became clearly focused in my mind was when the Senior President George H.W. Bush jumped on his 75th birthday....
Say "YES!"–River Rafting on the Colorado River in Moab, UT
Since we have been on this road trip, I’ve faced several moments of decision where I had to say “Yes, I will” or “No, I won’t” to new and different things that were far out of my comfort zone (some of them were downright scary, terrifying in fact!). For most of my...
Report From the Road: More pictures of the Alpine Loop Jeep Tour
In my last Report From the Road, I showed you pictures I had taken with GoPro camera mounted on the hood of the Jeep. In this post I want to show you the ones I had taken with My Nikon AW 110 Camera. The first thing we had to do was decide if we were going to leave...
Free Winter Camping and Boondocking in Florida for Vans and RVs.
(Today we have a guest post from Marshall Ellgas who is one of my East Coast readers. Marshall is a vandwelling snowbird who spends his winters camping for free in Florida, Since I have many East Coast readers, I thought you might find this helpful. Most of the...
Report From the Road–Jeeping the Alpine Loop in Colorado (photos by GoPro)
Continuing where we left off last time, when we got into Ridgway we met up with Forrest and Beth (be sure to check out their blog at: http://3upadventures.com/) and visited for a while, but eventually we got around to firming up plans for the Jeep Tour. First we had...
Report From the Road: Ridgway, CO and my Old Friends Beth and Forrest
When we last saw our intrepid Road Trippers they were happy campers at Mule Canyon, but as so often is the case, they soon succumbed to the dreaded disease “itch-us feet-us.” There is no known cure for this devilish sickness except to give in to the urge to turn the...
Converting a Ford Transit Connect
I don't want to bore you with continuous reports on my Road Trip, so I am going to throw in a Readers Guest Post on converting a Ford Transit to live in. My friend Randy did a great job and I hope you get some good ideas. It's also important that you remember that my...