In my continuing quest to learn about America, I went to a gun show in Phoenix. For many U.S. citizens, especially those in the Southwest, guns are a key element of the American identify. The right to own and bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Continue Reading
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Our Unplanned Route
This trip has been an ambition of mine for a while. Although not officially on my Dreams List, it’s something that I’ve been thinking about for several years, and it will provide an opportunity to fulfill other dreams that are on my list. Initially, I had only the vaguest of ideas. Continue Reading
Taking it on the chin — Mountain Biking in McDowell Mountain Park
Our friends Kevin and Annette flew from Vancouver to Phoenix to visit for a few days. They’re active people, so we planned 3 full days of mostly outdoor activities. On Day 1 we hiked Pinnacle Peak, the ‘Grouse Grind’ of Scottsdale, though it’s not as challenging. That afternoon we enjoyed Continue Reading
Help Name our RV Contest
We need your help! We’ve been traveling in our motorhome for almost 2 months but it doesn’t have a name yet. I read somewhere that it’s best not to force a name on one’s vehicle, far better to let it come naturally. Perhaps we can help that process along a Continue Reading
Paddy Get Your Gun
While visiting our friends Gail and George in their top-secret desert boondocking location outside Yuma, Arizona, I had the opportunity to fulfill a dream of mine. Something that’s been on my Dreams List for years. Nothing life changing – more of a guilty pleasure kind of thing. Gail and George had Continue Reading
And you said that I’m not handy
Things started out simply enough. We wanted to get some extra keys cut for our RV. We asked at a hardware store, but they didn’t have the blanks required to cut motorhome keys. In Quartzsite, we were pleased to find a guy cutting keys out of his trailer, and he Continue Reading
Quartzsite
Quartzsite is a sleepy little town of about 3,000 residents during the scorching Arizona summer, but in the months of January and February it swells to over 1 Million people, almost all of them living in RVs. Most of these people boondock in the desert, staying on Bureau of Land Continue Reading
Premature Conversation
I’ve started to play a word game with a few friends (Premature Competition) The object of the game is to insert creative 2-word phases into any conversation. (Premature Interjection) Each phrase must begin with the word “Premature” followed by a second word ending in “tion” or “sion” (Premature Formulation) The Continue Reading
Geek Alert — The Computer History Museum
We visited our Kiwi friends Alistair and Dallas in Mountain View, California. Located in the heart of the Silicon Valley near the Googleplex, their comfortable home has fruit trees and chickens in the back yard, and our motorhome just fit in their driveway. They were gracious hosts, even though they Continue Reading
Layed Up In Lynnwood
Because our license plate and taillights were blocked by our new bike cover, we decided it wasn’t safe to proceed. Before we had even made it to Seattle, we were at a standstill. Not a light in sight I spent the morning developing a solution to add some additional rear Continue Reading