We’ve had other RVs in the past before getting the 40 foot Diesel pusher we now have. We started years ago with a 34 foot motorhome on the then current Ford chassis with the old 460 cu. in. V-8 engine, and no slide outs (I don’t think they existed back then). Later on, when we
Never having been to Yuma, we decided to head to that corner of Arizona. Having good luck with the BLM (Bureau of Land Managment) camping areas, we decided on going to the Imperial Dam LTV (Long Term Living) Area near there. It is actually just across the border in California and is similar to the
At Ajo, we started to see some unusual cacti around us. Not very many, but a few. They were “organ pipe” cacus and this is the far end of their range. They are much more common further south. In fact, there is an Organ Pipe National Monument down at the border which is a major
After leaving Kofa, we went to the Imperial Dam Long Term Visitor Area (run by the Bureau of Land Management). It is near Yuma but on the California side of the Colorado River. We visited a couple of historic sites in Yuma (the old Territorial Prison Historic Park and the Quartermaster Depot Historic Park) and
The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona is 677,400 acres of Federal preserve, of which 547,700 acres are designated as wilderness. The designation protects them from further development or mining activity. The name “Kofa” derives from the King of Arizona mine which is located within the boundaries of the preserve. It consisted of four separate
This area will highlight products that we have found useful (and maybe some not quite so useful) in our RVing experience. All of these were purchased by us, none of them were offered as “promotional items” in return for an evaluation, so what you get is an evaluation based on our personal use. Since we
I had never heard of Quartzsite until recently. It seems the largest consumer RV show in the country (or so they claim) is held each year in Quartzsite. The town has a permanent population of maybe 4000, so it is pretty small. But it has lots of Bureau of Land Management territory around it. That
Sometimes you can’t win for trying. I’m certainly not new to buying tires, but motorhome tires seem to be in a class by themselves. First, they are BIG, at least in comparison to what I’ve bought before. And expensive. When we first bought the present motorhome, it was clear that it needed new front tires
It’s January. “All” the Christmas decorations (all two of them) are in storage until next season. We’ve had wonderful times with friends and family this year, including a last camping weekend with eldest daughter and family that was rainy, but still great fun. Some of the maintenance and upgrade items got done: we now have
It’s interesting to me how we have ended up laying out our first round of the nomadic life style: before we left our “home base” (or at least our home area for the last 21 years), we mapped out a few places with times that we wanted to be there, but only one was a