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

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

It’s been a busy time since I last updated this blog, so I’ll try to catch it up briefly:  We were on our way back to our previous “home” in Central Texas for the holiday in the last post, wrappipng up our first 90 days or so on the road as full time RVers without

It’s time to leave West Virginia and begin to think about getting underdway again.  From here we are heading to the DelMarVa peninsula on the east side of the gorgeous Chesapeake Bay.  My older brother and his wife retired to this area some time ago.  Sadly, he is deceased but my sister-in-law is still kicking

It’s an interesting perspective for me to actually have an open ended time line.  For 50 years I’ve had industrial jobs, and my wife has had public service kinds of positions, which always meant a limited amount of time available for family, community activities, hobbies, and travel.  So I’ve tended to force my family to

We’ve now moved on past Labor Day, 2016, so we are starting our first full month being on the road as “full timers”.  It starts to get more interesting as I get further away from working full time.  That part of my life, which was important for 5 decades, now seems to recede a bit

Moving on from our brief stay in Oklahoma City, we headed further north to Iowa, where my dear wife was born and raised.  Happy to say it was an uneventful trip up.  We got to the state park where we had reservations and found that there are different ways to do things than in the

Made it to Ok city and found a great campground near the museum.  We highly recommend Twin Fountains RV Resort in Oklahoma City.  Very well maintained, friendly staff, and nice camp sites.  Only issue we found is an 11 AM checkout time.  Since we arrived around 5 PM that doesn’t leave enough time to see