We eat most of our meals at Diane’s Diner, the exclusive restaurant in the Dream Machine. Diane’s serves a variety of locally-inspired and classic dishes at very reasonable prices. The chef works with limited kitchen facilities and creates everything without recipes. STARTERS Guacamole Fresh avocado, tomato, onion, garlic, lime, and…
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And the Winner Is…
I am very pleased to announce the winner of our Help Name our RV Contest. I would like to thank everyone who participated in this, the first ever DreamBigLiveBodly.com contest. Many creative suggestions were submitted, and picking a winner wasn’t easy, but… The winner is Janice Ebenstiner, whose single entry…
Another Crash
I drove the S&M Motel through the narrow, often challenging streets of Europe for 9 months without a single traffic incident, so perhaps I was overdue. In Alamogordo, New Mexico, after spending the morning at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, it was my time. Here is the statement…
Camping for Free in Europe
It is definitely possible to camp for free Europe across Europe. Free camping, dry camping, wild camping and boondocking (all of which have slightly different meanings) are terms used to describe camping somewhere other than a paid campground. In most countries in Europe you can camp for free with a…
Reminder – Help Name our RV Contest closes in just 3 days!
Thank-you to all of you who have contributed suggestions in our Help Name our RV Contest. Only 3 days remain to get your entries in, as the contest closes on Sunday, March 24th at 11 PM PST. Please click this link for contest details. The suggestions that have been made…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…