Monthly Archives: July 2011

Slab City

If you saw the movie, “Into the Wild” a few years ago about Christopher McCandless who ventures out on the road alone, you saw one depiction of Slab City. In the movie, the habitants are friendly and their sense of … Continue reading

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Dripping Springs

Some full-time RVers are on the road almost constantly — a few days here, a week or two there, then off again. For us, full-timing is a chance to spend some time in one spot so we can explore it. … Continue reading

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What’s for Desert?

Oh… okay… I know there’s *dessert* (as in “ice cream”) and then there’s *desert* as in Anza-Borrego. This is about the latter…. We’ve driven through this desert a few times, and one day had enough time to pull off the … Continue reading

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Winter Doldrums? Not For Us!

How to summarize a quick, complicate winter full of changes? Maybe this way: We headed for Yuma, Arizona, where we thought we’d spend the winter — having had such a great time last year. After a couple of weeks at … Continue reading

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Of Coarsegold!

Did we make sure to stay again at the Park of the Sierras SKP park in Coarsegold, CA, when we came down coast last fall? Of course! Since we arrived just minutes after the office closed, we boondocked in the … Continue reading

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Closing the Loop

In real time, we’re well into the summer of 2011… but in the Adventures Blog time, we’re heading into fall of 2010. We’d had a great spring and summer trip through the national parks from the Grand Canyon northward to … Continue reading

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