Wow! Most everyone knows what a Saguaro Cactus is. It is such an iconic image of the southwest! We have all seen images of one lone saguaro with the sun behind it, and so we picture the desert with very sparsely spaced cacti and virtually nothing else around. That is not at all what the […]
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Other than visiting parks, it is not often that we do typical “tourist” activities. Rarely do we spend money on museums, shows, tours, and other experiences that are commonly associated with travel. However, being just 30 minutes from Tombstone, AZ, and having heard about the gunfight at the O.K. Corral our entire lives, we couldn’t
We had never heard of Chiricahua National Monument until we started doing research for this trip. We read a couple of articles about good places to visit in the winter and it was mentioned in one of them. Without thinking much about it, we put it on our ideas map and moved on, not really
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We mentioned in our Alamogordo post that life isn’t always fun and games, even when you are traveling full-time. Sometimes there are chores to do, work to get done, and then sometimes, you just need some down time! That has been the last couple of days for us. After staying at Dog Canyon Dispersed Camping
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A few years ago after a visit to Great Sand Dunes National Park, we were telling our friend, Ken, about it and he said that if we liked dunes, we should definitely check out White Sands National Monument. This was before White Sands became a national park in 2019. We filed that away in the
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When we left Chosa Campground in the ice and cold, we moved to Brantley Lake State Park. In the two nights we stayed there, we pretty much just hunkered down to avoid the cold, so there isn’t much to say about that. We will admit, though, that it was nice to have a couple of
After our adventures in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, we moved just 30 minutes up the road to Chosa Campground, which is a free campground on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land. BLM land is a great option for travelers because camping on it is often free or very inexpensive. With this type of camping, all
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Our next adventure was Guadalupe Mountains National Park. We had managed to snag a couple of nights in the Pine Springs Campground right inside the park, so off we went! As I mentioned before, we always prefer to stay inside the parks when we can. This campground was unlike any other we have ever stayed
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After leaving Big Bend National Park, we had a night to spend before our next major destination. When we just have one night we need to kill, we don’t like to do the traditional campground thing if we can help it. We prefer to stay somewhere free on those nights, and in places where we
Big Bend National Park has been on our list of places to go for years, but because of its remote location in south-western Texas, we never made it until now. Once we knew that we were going to be on the road for an extended period of time and wanted to be in the southwest
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After leaving The Natchez Trace, we needed a place to stay for the night on our way to Texas, so we turned to Harvest Hosts. For those of you who aren’t campers, Harvest Hosts is a membership you can purchase that has a network of businesses (breweries, wineries, farms, etc.) that will allow you to
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After setting out from home on January 12, 2023, our first destination was to be the Natchez Trace Parkway that travels through Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. We chose to travel the trace from north to south, and camp in the campgrounds that are run by the National Park Service. One of the great things about
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After years of camping during weekends, yearly vacations, and every other opportunity we could ever muster, we decided in January of 2023 to take the plunge and try out full-time RV life. This blog will follow our travels through the good, bad, and ugly of two people living in 210 square feet as we tour
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