THE STORIES

Rain, rain… go away!

Can you say “atmospheric river?” Unfortunately, we can! Since December, we have witnessed a number of major weather events — thankfully, mostly from the sidelines. When we were in Long Beach CA at Christmas time, the weather was primarily cold and rainy. Right after we left, the region was hit

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Beautiful Borrego Springs… goodbye desert (for now)

Our final stop in the desert (this time around!) was at Borrego Springs, a fabulous wrap-up to our desert adventures. First of all, Palm Canyon Hotel and RV Resort was delightful! It had a very fun vibe, a wonderful burger restaurant (with salad and sweet potato fries for Michele), and

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Stumbling into delightful discoveries. 

We continue to work on the balance between planning and serendipity. While the broad strokes of our trip really do need to be planned carefully, once we arrive at a site, we allow for a fair amount of wandering and the associated delightful discoveries. A few of those experiences:  Tanque

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Getting our kicks on Route 66*…sort of

We discussed the power of experience in an earlier post. For us, Route 66 was a “non-experience” (and we fully recognize that might not be a popular opinion). Admittedly, we only saw a small portion of the storied road (Kingman, Seligman, and Oatman), and it was the dead of winter…

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MOIF: What makes a great RV resort?

While jumping from location to location, we tend to listen to three different types of content: 1st Wave on SiriusXM(because… 80’s music, of course), various comedy channels, or The Dave Chang Show podcast. If you’ve ever listened to Dave Chang, you know he’s incredibly opinionated…so much so that there’s a

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The power of experience.

If you told us a year ago that we’d spend (and enjoy) a month in a Las Vegas campground, we’d say you didn’t know us particularly well. After all, we don’t gamble, and there are only so many circus shows one can see (and by that we mean…afford). It turns

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