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Slippery Slopes and Airstreams

This is a short lesson in hitch safety that we discovered the hard way. After more than 20 months of traveling, we got a serious…

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park of New Mexico

While making our way through New Mexico, Trail and I decided to visit the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens which is both a Zoo and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Badlands National Park Secrets

Back in August, I remember my giddy school-girl excitement in the days leading up to our visit to South Dakota and Badlands National Park. I…

Badlands National Park Scenic Drive

On an early September morning, I roust my husband by frying bacon and brewing a pot of tea; that usually gets Hitch up from a…

Carlsbad RV and Camp – Carlsbad, New Mexico

Once upon a time Carlsbad RV was likely a real jewel of an RV park. Walking around, it is easy to imagine that 20-30 years…

Celebrating 14 years of being Hitched

Today, Anne (Trail) and I have been married 14 years. I'm writing this the day before our anniversary and reflecting on the meaningfulness of our…

Town and Country RV: Roswell, NM

Our stay at Town and Country RV in Roswell was brief, just two nights, but it left a good impression on me. Both our parking…

Shady Grove RV – Alamogordo, New Mexico

We decided to stay at Shady Grove RV during out visit to White Sands National Monument. The weekly rate was excellent and the location looked…

One year of living in an Airstream

It's now been more than a year since we moved into our Airstream. It seems like a good time for a little reflection on where…

Colorado Gator

As we drove into the San Luis Valley we started to see a series of large handmade signs advertising the presence of Alligators in this…

Santa Fe Skies RV Park: Santa Fe, NM

We spent 2 nights at Santa Fe Skies RV which means it was just a stop-over for us between Great Sand Dunes in Colorado and…

Sand Dunes Swimming Pool and RV: Hooper, CO

Sand Dunes Swimming Pool and RV is aptly named. This place is much more about being a swimming pool than an RV park. That said,…

Minuteman Missile National Historic Park

Sometimes while traveling you find the side trips are just as amazing as the destination you had in mind. We decided to visit the Minuteman…

Pueblo KOA: Pueblo, CO

Once again our stay at a KOA park was a disappointment. Thankfully our reservation at Pueblo KOA was only for two nights as we travel…

Deadwood

I have never been an aficionado of the old west. While I've enjoyed my share of spaghetti westerns, I've never seriously studied the history and…

Loveland RV Resort: Loveland, CO

We stayed at Loveland RV Resort while visiting Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. The park is about an hour's drive from the city of…

The Crazy Horse Memorial

History of the Memorial The Crazy Horse Memorial is sort of the Native American answer to the Mt. Rushmore monument. A Lakota Chief by the name…

Prairie View Campground – Lusk, Wyoming

Our stay at Prairie View Campground was brief, only two nights on our way to Colorado. This is another campground we chose largely because there…

Mount Rushmore

On the whole, Mount Rushmore feels like some mix between a roadside tourist attraction and a national monument. Likely that is because it was first…

Pirates vs. Wenches

Ere we set forth from the shores of Wyoming proper, Trail an' meself set our eyes on a bit o sport in the landlocked port…

First time work camping

As we were checking into Mountain View RV park in Sundance Wyoming, we were asked "the question!." The one all RVers seem to ask one…

Mountain View RV: Sundance, WY

We came to Mountain View RV intending to stay a week and visit Devils Tower. When we arrived, they offered us a chance to work…

Little Bighorn Battlefield

On our way through Southern Montana, we decided to spend a day checking out the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Like many of the historical…

7th Ranch RV Camp: Garryowen, Montana

We stopped at 7th ranch on our way through southern Montana to check out the memorial for the Battle of Little Big Horn. True to…

Big Timber KOA: Big Timber Montana

Fortunately, we only stayed at Big Timber KOA for two nights. I say that not because it is an especially poor RV park but because…

Getting Organized: Kanban and Trello

Organizing life is something everyone must do, not just those living the RV life. I often feel overwhelmed by the number of things I need…

Glacier Peaks RV Park: Columbia Falls, Montana

We ended up staying at Glacier Peaks because it was the only RV park near Glacier National Park where we could book a two weeks…

Airstream Security and Safety

Of the two of us, Trail is the one with a talent for worrying. She is good at imagining what could go wrong in life…

Indian Creek Campground: Deer Lodge, MT

We stayed at Indian Creek campground for only two nights on our way to Glacier National Park. With such a short stay it is difficult…

Valley View RV Park: Island Park, Idaho

Valley View RV was our home for a full month while we explored the wonders of Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding wilderness. We chose…

State Residency for the Full Time RV Traveler

Living full-time on the road can be tricky in the modern world. Most of our institutions are set up for people who live in one…

Pokemon Go on the Road

Pokemon Go is sweeping the nation, perhaps the world and Trail and I are among the very many playing this game. If you are curious…

First Day at Yellowstone

We decided to stay at Yellowstone National Park for a full month. It is America's first national park and covers more than 2 million acres. Chances…

Hitch Interviewed

A fine gent by the name of Heath Padgett asked me to do an interview for his podcast: The RV Entrepreneur. He normally interviews folks…

Hells Canyon: Oregon

Hells Canyon is the deepest river gorge in north America at just shy of 8,000 feet at its deepest point. It was carved by the…

Mountain View RV Park: Arco, ID

Mountain View RV park in Arco, Idaho is one of those parks that breaks the mold a bit and shows the initiative and personality of…