Since we left the Alabama Hills region of California, we’ve been less exploring and more on a mission: to get the damned door finally fixed on the Airstream at a dealership/service center in Temecula, California. The irony is we’ve been in two really stellar campsites during this mission and have hardly been able to spend […]
Month: November 2021
Three-story Tiny House Beginning
When we were in Las Vegas, at an Amazon locker I picked up a new tiny house, and this was supposed to be the tiny house to end all tiny houses. Three stories! A coy pond and a bridge! A sauna and a gaming gazebo, lol! This thing has everything. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten so used […]
Famous Alabama Hills of California
We drove straight west from Las Vegas, to the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains—an area called Alabama Hills. (More on the name below). Unlike other times when Tracy’s felt confident exploring dirt roads to find just the right spot for us, here we could see campers scattered all over this national scenic area […]
Overcrowding Complaints
As we’ve travelled from the East Coast to the West, Tracy’s done a spectacular job finding us spots to camp at that are outside campgrounds but legal (federal land, mostly), with great views, privacy, and nearby towns. I think we spent all of the summer in Montana boondocking, in fact. But as we head closer […]
I Spent My Birthday on Tatooine
I didn’t know this until I’d been here a few days and was scrolling through the Death Valley info on the NPS app: several Star Wars scenes from two of its movies were filmed here. This was a national monument back then, not a national park and national wilderness like it is now, so it was legal […]
