Category: Where we have been
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World Wonders Cruise Diary -Day 1
The day has finally arrived! It doesn’t seem like long ago that our Viking World Wonders cruise was still on the back burner, but preparations picked up a few months and it’s finally happening! We’re currently cruising across the vast Pacific Ocean aboard Viking Sun! As we mentioned in our previous post, we’ve changed our…
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Betsy Hibernates While We See Wonders of the World!
If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we’ve accomplished our main goal of visiting and staying in all 49 states, plus most Canadian provinces and a little bit of Mexico since we began our full-time RV saga on March 1, 2012. We’ve seen a lot, but of course there’s more of…
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The Desert Rats are Back in Southwest Arizona!
We don’t mind being called desert rats, since we usually spend our winters in Arizona. We even endured a long hot summer here, too 🙁 We like this area and are always excited to see the Saguaros and the centennial sign of Arizona as we drive into the area.
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Visiting friends in Boulder City, Nevada
From California we crossed southwest into Boulder City, our only stop in Nevada this Fall. Our dear friends John and Pam had put down stakes in a beautiful house here over a year ago. They may have a “real” home now ,but they’re still far from hanging up the RV keys. In fact, we last…
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Exploring the Southern End of Highway 395 – CA
Although this is my final installment covering our two weeks of outdoor fun along scenic Highway 395, it’s by no means our final visit. Many beautiful sights remain to be seen, even after our second stay. As I’ve mentioned before, the area is not only breathtaking but also provides access to several other natural wonders. One…
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Things Are Still Fine in Lone Pine, CA!
If you’re fans of old western movies as we are, a visit to Lone Pine, CA should be on your must-do list. Why? Well, one of Hollywood’s favorite western movie locations, the Alabama Hills, are right here. It’s where hundreds of cowboy and war movies have been filmed since 1920. The Museum of Western Film…
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Hiking the Eastern Sierras – Bishop, CA
Continuing our drive south on Hwy 395, we quickly descended from 7,654′ at June Lake to 4,150′ at the scenic small town of Bishop. Here the cottonwoods, willows and aspens painted the valleys, mountainsides and meadows in gold! For us, autumn is the best time to visit, but the area wilderness adventures are gorgeous year-round. …
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Revisiting the Eastern Sierras, CA
We paused in our southward migration to park Betsy at Sparks, Nevada, taking the car for family and friend visits between there and the Bay Area. We had no desire to drive Betsy down there again, and being able to stay with family for a few days made it a no-brainer (thank you, Becky!).
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Barely Scratching the Surface – Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA
Having lost a day to explore Lassen Volcanic National Park due to Betsy’s coolant issue, we compressed our schedule a bit and accessed the park from its northwest Manzanita Lake gate entrance. It was 26 miles south of our campsite at Rancheria RV Park in Hat Creek.
