Williams, Arizona
While visiting the Grand Canyon we have been parked right in the midst of Williams, Arizona. It is a relatively small town at some 3,00…
Miami Everglades Resort: Miami Florida
Miami Everglades Resort has some of the nicest, on-sight recreation options of any park we have been to. I really liked it here, Trail was…
Grand Canyon Railway RV Park: Williams, AZ
Our latest encampment is at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park in Williams, Arizona. This park is an offshoot of a local hotel, most famous…
Sunset Crater Volcano and Wupatki National Monuments
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is one of three national monuments near Flagstaff Arizona. We alternated our site-seeing between the…
Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well and Tuzigoot
Arizona is packed with National Monuments, having more than any other state. Everywhere we go in the state there are amazing things to see and…
Upriver RV Resort: Fort Myers, FL
Upriver RV is located on the banks of the Caloosahatchee river in Fort Myers, Florida. The price point is high, as are most parks in southern Florida,…
Navigating Grand Canyon National Park
Visiting Grand Canyon National Park on the South Rim required a lot more planning than I had originally expected, but this is why I planned…
Things I learned Selling Our House
To head out on our grand adventure we had to sell our house. When I bought it in 2003 it was the first I owned and I…
Fiesta RV Resort: Fiesta Key, FL
Fiesta RV Resort is not only located on Fiesta Key, it takes up the entirety of Fiesta Key. Not shockingly, the views are lovely but the…
The Great Courses: American Religious History
As we drive from place to place Trail and I like to learn about our world by listening to college history lectures from The Great…
Taking Pictures with Hitch’s Camera
Before we set out on our journey I decided I should buy a camera. It was the first camera I've every purchased for myself. I decided…
Dealing With Adversity: Hitch Style
I think everyone faces life's challenges in different ways. I didn't truly understand this until I was married and was able to intimately observe someone…
On Second Thought, Forget The Alamo
Why did we choose to forget the Alamo? Well, it all began with a desire to see The Alamo while we were near San Antonio,…
Trail & Hitch vs The Fading Furnace
We were staying in Williams, Arizona, just 1 hour outside of the Grand Canyon South Rim and this is the moment when our Airstream furnace…
Raiders of the Lost Airstream
You may recall the time we trapped ourselves in the Airstream. Well, we did it again. This time, I sprung the trap and managed to…
Arizona Elections: A Traveler’s Discovery
As we have been traveling around we happened to be in both Arizona and Nevada while they were holding their presidential primaries. I'm something of…
Becoming a “Truck Person”
Setting out on this adventure I was curious to discover what personal changes I would undergo. Typically while we often hope for one change or…
Orange Blossom KOA: Apopka, FL
At last, we have encountered a KOA park we really liked. Orange Blossom KOA boasts they are the friendliest RV park in Orlando and if…
Saguaro National Park East
In our second trip to Saguaro National Park, we headed out to the Rincon Mountains to see what the East half of the park had…
Great Courses: History of the Supreme Court
Sometimes I feel like I should have gone to law school. I love arguing, I have a talent for reading rules and understanding their implications,…
Casa Grande, Arizona
Casa Grande Arizona is home to the Casa Grande RV Resort and thus was home to us for about three weeks time. We've been waiting…
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Our trip to Organ Pipe National Monument took over 2 hours to reach, and along the way we noticed several border patrol stops. Which makes…
Three Flags RV Resort: Wildwood, FL
Three Flags RV Resort is our first stay at a Thousand Trails campground. Thousand Trails is a membership camping club where you pay a flat…
Casa Grande RV Resort: Casa Grande, AZ
Nights: 19 RV Park Cost: $597.00 ($32.00/day) Discounts Used: Good Sam 15% off GPS Location: 32.9214051,-111.7570227 Address: 195 W Rodeo Road Casa Grande, AZ 85122…
Visiting Boquillas, Mexico
While at Big Bend National Park I made some noises about wanting to cross over into Mexico at least once just. I also wanted a…
Death and Taxes (Hold the Death)
I've done my own taxes since I was first on my own, I think at the age of 19. In the early day's I was…
A Stone’s Throw RV: Monticello, FL
A Stone's Throw RV park is a small, largely self-serve park located near Tallahassee Florida. We found it to be efficient, clean, and a decent…
Wisdom and Travel
I see wisdom as an understanding of what it means to be a human being. Wisdom helps us navigate our lives, both giving us the…
Saguaro National Park West
We took a trip to Saguaro National Park late in the morning and the temperature was already reaching a high of 86°F. This is unusually…
Sapphire Island Camping & RV Resort: DeFuniak Springs, FL
Sapphire Island Camping and RV Resort has a misleading name. There are no islands anywhere nearby. There are no sapphires nor anything sapphire colored. And…
Hitch vs High Anxiety
Generally, I am a chill dude, not prone to worry or anxiety. In the fight or flight spectrum, I tend strongly towards fighting. Not so…
Great Lectures: Biology of Birds
Few days ago when we went out into the desert trails of Saguaro National Park and heard a loud kaaaa sound followed by a ka-KAA-ka-ka…
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Within the northern boundaries of the Chihuahuan Desert of western Texas resides an underrated gem of the National Park System: Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Do…
We Locked Ourselves in Our Airstream
Every RV has its own "special qualities" that you get to know better and better as you travel with it. Everyone can imagine that an…
Indian Point RV Resort: Gautier, Mississippi
There are typical RV parks and resorts, and then there is Indian Point RV Resort which takes eclectic to new heights. It is an RV…
Carefree Afternoon Tea for White Day
For our White Day celebration, we headed to the small town of Carefree, Arizona. Carefree's official town motto is "The Best Small Town in Arizona,"…
Fast Food Burgers of the West
Prior to our travels Trail and I didn't frequent a lot of fast food joints. Seattle is rich in great restaurants and a healthy income made…
Carlsbad Caverns: Left Hand Tunnel
Crisis in the Caves, 1979 On a hot July day in 1979, four men entered the elevator leading down into the Big Room of Carlsbad…
Hoover Dam
We took a half-day trip to Hoover Dam, an American engineering icon built by thousands of workers and cost over a hundred lives in the Great…
Lakeside RV, Park: Livingston, LA
We parked at Lakeside RV on our way east to Florida, staying 3 nights so we could spend at least one full day in New…
Grand Canyon West
I'd first like to preface that Grand Canyon West is not a part of the Grand Canyon National Park. It's a private amusement park owned…
Tradewinds RV Park, Golden Valley, AZ
The quiet and picturesque community of Golden Valley lies in the Sacramento Valley, within the Northwest section of the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. Golden…
Las Vegas: Life in the Fast Lane
During our time in Death Valley our good friend Dennis decided to come down from the Camino Island in Washington to check out the Super…
Nevada: Odds and Ends
To explore Death Valley we stationed ourselves in Parhump, Nevada for two weeks. While most of our attention was focused on the park itself, I…
Fernbrook RV Park: Longview, TX
We only stayed a brief time at this clean and modern RV park in north-east Texas on our way east. Grim weather dogged us while…
Spectacular Views of Death Valley National Park
Our first stop in Death Valley was a spot called Dante's View. What makes it such a good starting place is that it overlooks a…
Death Valley Sand and Pupfish!
If you're much of a Star Wars fan like we are, you may remember the scene in New Hope where C3P0 and R2D2 are arguing on…
Colors of Death Valley National Park
One of my favorite spots in Death Valley is Zabriskie Point. From this vantage point, we were surrounded by an unearthly desert landscape filled with wild erosion lines and the…
Driving in Death Valley National Park
Our trip to Death Valley was precipitated by a tip from our friend Dennis about the super bloom just getting under way. He was planning…
River Cities RV Park – Boyce, LA
This is was our first stop in Louisiana and things did not get off to a great start. While there is nothing wrong with River…
