Our desert Christmas tree Scenes from the nightly LTVA parade
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Settling into Life on Boot Hill
We’ve been here at Imperial Dam LTVA for longer than 95% of our campsites, I’d estimate, and I guess we’re getting the hang of this place. And I have to admit, it’s treating me a lot better than it is Tracy. I’m getting to be gregarious and reaffirming my faith in humanity (kind of), whereas […]
Lighting up the Airstream for Winter
Last year at Christmas we were at the lovely Bonita Springs RV Resort near Naples, where the manatees moseyed up the river by our campsite and we enjoyed the community atmosphere of that friendly age 55+ “snowbird” resort. Too bad it was listed as the top place to spend winter in our fulltime RV newsletter—the […]
Banjo’s Errand Days
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 […]
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 […]
Highway 61—Las Vegas Style
Rovin’ gambler, he was very bored,Tryin’ to create a next world war.He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor.“I never did engage in this kind of thing before.But yeah, I think it can be very easily done. We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun,Have it on Highway 61.” This is the […]
Death by Paper Cuts?
That’s an exaggeration—in both directions. We’re still loving this lifestyle (so, far from death), but we’ve faced more than just paper cuts lately. An older guy dumping his trailer tanks at the truck stop next to us was just hopping to tell me that he’s sold his house and bought this RV and is going to […]
No Longer Are Our Screws Loose
The beauty of Idaho has been a surprising bonus, but we came here in order to get service at the “five-rivet” service center of the Airstream dealership in Boise. (Highly rated dealerships are truly called “five-rivet.” Airstream does love its word play). I felt big-time anxiety leaving my home with a bunch of stranger mechanics […]
Perpetual Stranger in a Strange Land
I’ve a friend who lives in her Airstream but travels less than we do; she and her husband own a parking pad in a little Airstream community that they use as a home base. So we share quite a bit in terms of lifestyle, but we also live very differently within that lifestyle. What’s funny is […]
Lessons from Isolation
Tracy says it’s been ten days only that we’ve been camping without cell signal, and in truth it’s not been more than two consecutive days, since we’ll drive out to download email pretty frequently. But when I check my calendar and my social soul, it feels for sure like three weeks. Maybe all summer? When was it I […]
