8 Free Things to Do at Balboa Park
Back in the 1800s, it was a common practice for the Spanish and Mexican governments to set aside large tracts of land for common use…
San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park in Pictures
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Co-Enabling Adventure
Trail and I are very different from one another in personality. While we very often like the same things, we approach them in very different…
Valley Center, CA
In 1845, just two years before the discovery of gold in California, a town was founded just outside of San Diego. It was considered fully…
Crawl out through the Fallout
What's this? A video game review on a travel blog? Yes indeed folks. Trail felt that as traveling geeks and gamers we should write about…
Traveling Medicine: Hitch vs Gout
While in Big Bend Texas, I began to notice the big toe of my left foot was not feeling so great. It was kind of…
Nature’s Own RV Resort: Kingsville, TX
Nature's Own RV Resort was our last stopover between Big Bend and Mission Texas. It's a big state, and Nature's Own RV is a pretty…
Staying Connected on the Road
I’ll be blunt, I don’t like the following about most mobile wifi services: Misc fees including overcharge, activation restocking, and early contract termination fees. Any…
Bakersfield River Run RV Park: Bakersfield, CA
Nights: 1 RV Park Cost: $37.80 Discounts Used: Good Sam GPS Location: 35.379247, -119.047648 Address: 3715 Burr St, Bakersfield, CA 93308 Website: www.riverrunrvpark.com Pros: 30…
SB RV Park: Charrizo Springs, Texas
SB RV park doesn't have the world's catchiest name, but it is a decent RV Park with a lot of spaces. It seems to cater to…
Flag City RV Resort: Lodi, CA
Nights: 3 RV Park Cost: $138.84 Discounts Used: Passport America, Good Sam Club GPS Location: 38.114095, -121.390543 Address: 6120 W Banner St, Lodi, CA 95242…
San Francisco
During our stay in the Sacramento, we decided to brave the traffic into San Francisco and take a guided tour of the city courtesy of…
Broke Mill RV: Del Rio, Texas
Broke Mill RV boasts that it is Del Ro's newest and most modern RV park and I don't doubt it. While it is not the…
Schlub Life – Will your trailer make you trashy?
One of the less inspiring aspects of trailer life has been the effect it's had on my personal grooming, fashion, and hygiene. While I have…
Sundial Bridge of Turtle Bay in Redding, CA
The Sundial Bridge is a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge for use by bicycles and pedestrians. She spans across the Sacramento River at 700 feet, while the support…
Moaning Cavern in Vallecito, CA
As much as I have explored monster ridden caves in worlds of fantasy I had yet to step into the real thing until just yesterday…
Marathon Motel & RV Park: Marathon, Texas
Marathon Motel & RV Park is a unique park and well worth staying at. While it is nice enough during the day, it is at…
Fast Forward
One of our goals is to take our time while traveling. For one thing it's cheaper, but more importantly there is an awful lot to…
Mountain Gate RV Park: Redding, CA
Nights: 3 Cost: $73.26 Discounts Used: Good Sam Club GPS Location: 40.699600, -122.339378 Address: 14161 Holiday Rd, Redding, CA 96003 Pros: Very clean park with…
Hilltop RV: Fort Stockton, Texas
Hilltop RV sits on a low hill overlooking the Texas desert planes near Fort Stockton. It is a full featured RV park with all the…
Lemurians of Mt Shasta and Shasta Lake
A continent called Lemuria exists beneath Mt. Shasta. Lemuria sunk and the people had fled to the hollow earth below the mountain. Living deep inside…
Maverick Ranch RV Park: Lajitas, Texas
After a number of RV stays where we paid premium prices for modest accommodations, Maverick Ranch RV was a ray of sunshine. For the incredibly…
Yreka RV Park in Yreka, CA
Nights: 1 Cost: $38.61 Discounts Used: AAA GPS Location: 41.737421, -122.626515 Address: 767 Montague Rd, Yreka, CA 96097 Pros: Clean park with 30 & 50…
Puttering through Portland
Stop number two on our journey saw us arrive at Silverton, Oregon which is between Portland to the north and Salem to the south. On…
Seven Feathers RV Resort in Canyonville, OR
Nights: 2 RV Park Cost: $32.00 Discounts Used: AAA GPS Location: 42.936430, -123.294655 Address: 325 Quintioosa Blvd, Canyonville, OR 97417 Website: www.sevenfeathersrvresort.com Pros: Super clean…
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Pictures
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Visiting mighty Olympia
Before we left the evergreen state we decided we should get a good look at its capitol Olympia, Washington. I've been interested in architecture for…
Best RV and Airstream Gifts
This gift giving guide is not quite like the others. I wanted to not only suggest a list of products but to really reflect on what…
Silver Spur RV Park in Silverton, OR
Nights: 3 RV Park Cost: $80.80 Discounts Used: Passport America GPS Location: 45.002621, -122.803083 Address: 12622 Silverton Rd NE, Silverton, OR 97381 Pros: Nice wide…
Airstream Repairs
“Les Petit Soucis” which I think means “The Small Problems.” Hitch and I decided to stay through Thanksgiving for a few main reasons: One, to…
Bandelier National Monument
For our first few days in New Mexico, we took a day to visit Bandelier National Monument, an amazing location. This historical site was designated…
Hitch vs Hitch: The Fountain of the Foul
When we bought our Airstream we were given a lengthy introductory tour by a member of the service department, himself a longtime Airstream owner and…
Little Creek Casino & Resort: Shelton, WA
Nights: 3 RV Park Cost: $57.75 Discounts Used: Passport America GPS Location: 47.129238, -123.103914 Address: 91 West State Route 108, Shelton, WA 98584 Pros: Nice…
New Mexico Museum of Space History
Alamogordo New Mexico was one of America's early centers of space research and experimentation. It had the perfect climate, weather, topography, and remoteness for rocket research…
Goodbye Seattle
Tomorrow we are pulling up stakes and beginning our journey in earnest, saying goodbye to Seattle Washington and hello to the many roads and trails…
Airstream Cats: Kia & Keckovar
Introductions Kia is a tiny american short-hair tabby-calico with incomparably soft fur and sharp claws. Kia likes to patrol for shadow creatures, ghosts and other…
Thanksgiving!
In a few days, we head off into our maiden voyage, but before that, we spent Thanksgiving with our favorite people and longtime friends on…
Colorado’s San Luis Valley
Over the course of a few days in October, we set out to explore the San Luis Valley, an area of Colorado that also includes…
Traveling Cats: The Litter Box
We travel with our two beloved kitties, Kekovar and Kia. We had a lot of uncertainties about what challenges we would face in getting the…
Airstream Thanksgiving: A year of travel, a night of thanks
Thanksgiving holds extra significance for us now. When we set out on our traveling adventure we stuck around Seattle long enough to celebrate the 2015…
Roswell: Alien Encounters
X-Files was something of a cultural touchstone for Trail. She delights in shows about sasquatch, aliens, ghosts, and lost magical treasures. While no true believer,…
Life in the slow lane
Life in the slow lane sums up a fair bit of trailer life. In the literal sense you tend to drive in the slow lane…
Great Sand Dunes National Park
After what seemed like a brief visit to Rocky Mountain National Park, we drove south and east, where we spent a little over a week…
6 Tips for Visiting Rocky Mountain National Park
I'm going to be up front about this: Rocky Mountain National Park is very very crowded. Over 4.5 million visitors flock to this incredible land…
Airstream Life in Kent, WA
Moochdocking in Kent For the past few weeks, Trail and I have been living in our wonderful Airstream but have yet to travel farther than…
Rocky Mountain: Bear Lake Corridor Hike
With only a week to spend in Rocky Mountain National Park, I wanted to get the best bang for my hike. After much planning, I…
Rocky Mountain National Park: Old Fall River Road
When I think of great American Icons, Rocky Mountain ranks pretty high on the list, right up there with Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. I picked…
The Stanley Hotel
I have this thing about Stanley Kubrick's 1980s film, The Shining. I watch it annually as soon as October rolls around. I've read the book…
Reviewing RV Parks
,I've reviewed every park we have stayed at since we began our journey. My motives for doing so are a mix of providing content for…
Trail and Hitch vs The Immovable Implement
[caption id="attachment_263" align="alignright" width="200"] Atwood 3000 Power Jack[/caption] On a blustery Autumn morning, Trail (Anne) and I found ourselves once again with full sewage tanks…
