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
Travel
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
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
Preparation and Liftoff
We spent the first 2 weeks of January getting ready to depart. Actually, we scrambled to complete what we needed to while making time to spend with family and friends. Why is it that regardless of the amount of time we have to prepare for a journey, the last few Continue Reading
America
I’m really looking forward to seeing the United States from something other than an airport, a hotel room, a convention center, a casino, a marathon route, or a cliff — the vistas from which I’ve previously enjoyed the U.S. of A. I have a romantic notion of America and its Continue Reading
There and back again — Retrieving our motorhome
I picked up our motorhome from the dealer in Des Moines, Iowa on December 28th. I drove out into the night and a snow storm. The roads were slick with uneven layers of ice still clinging to them from an earlier blizzard. I sat idling in the parking lot while I Continue Reading
There and back again — Picking up our Motorhome
We purchased our Solera from RV Direct’s dealership in Des Moines, Iowa. Why so far away? There are no Forest River dealers in British Columbia that sell this model. In fact, there is only dealer in Canada (in Laval, Quebec) that sells them, and they buy them at RV Direct, Continue Reading