I never thought that I'd admit that a camera was necessary for an RV travel blog, but...   more »

This might be a small project but it epitomizes the whole issue of living partly outdoors. While bodily indoors, my mind is out-of-doors.    more »

One day there were at least eight different types of butterflies within a few feet of me. They have a gift for alighting on a plant and tricking you into readying your camera.   more »

It used to be just a river and a border between the USA and Mexico. It's far grander than that, geologically. There is something special about a rift valley.   more »

I was so eager for this laptop to arrive that the notion of a Silver Slug and a Wandrin Wagon transmogrified into something else.   more »

Normally I am too practical to entertain silly fantasies of a smaller rig with much better gas mileage.   more »

And then I discovered my old buddy that I had recently discarded. It was love at first sight. It was waiting for me in the Casa Blanca casino...   more »

Truly, I'm ashamed of myself. My only consolation is that I'm addicted to the internet instead of the boob toob.   more »

Perhaps this accidental fast from the internet is good for my soul, somehow. Oh...who am I kidding.   more »

Having any kind of a repair problem is no fun for full time RVers since it usually happens at an inopportune time and place. It is the best argument that you could give for continuous downsizing.   more »

I couldn't believe it. It was a small meadow, an island of light and air. I really didn't know that such islands existed.   more »

A large peak loomed over camp. Even though I'm not a "peak bagger," I just had to start towards it because of the grand and grassy slope in front of the trailer.   more »

I'm always looking for non-scenery experiences that dovetail with the full time RV lifestyle. This spring the Tibet protests were in the news. On The Buddha's birthday...    more »

It's funny how RV boondocking campsites work out sometimes. When I came here the first night it was just for convenience's sake. Then it grew on me a little each day. And now I feel almost homesick leaving it...    more »

The cliffs were a natural amphitheater. It seemed like eavesdropping to listen to it all...I sat there for twenty minutes. I've never really listened to a forest before.   more »

The trick is pretty simple: just stay off the roads, off the trails and out of the campgrounds. Consign yourself to unglamorous land that is 5 miles away from the postcards, where the eye candy will be 90% as good.   more »

Along the way a horseman and two dogs were moving two heavy-footed ungulates to a different pasture. John Wayne, in The Cowboys, said that a cow was just a lot of trouble tied up in a bag of leather.    more »