Travel Blog
We drove from Deming, NM to Roswell, NM, which we expected to be a boring flat drive with nothing but desert in between. Who knew there was a 7,500 foot mountain pass between the two? We got snowed on at the top, but fortunately it didn’t accumulate on the highway, only on the surrounding terrain. …
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We had a leisurely morning and left Ellen & Bernie’s about 8am. We drove through a rain the entire way to Deming, NM. It rained and hailed so hard at one point, we almost pulled over. We also saw an overturned SUV in the median that happened a couple of minutes before us. A not-so-gentle…
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After Quartzsite, we made the short 2.5 hour drive to Ellen and Bernie’s where we stayed through Easter. While we were there we: Visited Karen’s parents at their winter home in Tower Point RV Resort Walked the dogs through Dobson Ranch Had a delicious Taco dinner at Courtney and Leonard’s new home Played golf with…
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We drove through Joshua Tree National Park on our way to Quartzsite, stopping a couple of times to take in the Joshua Trees and cool rock formations. We arrived at the Holiday Palms RV Resort on Friday around 1pm and quickly got set up in about 1/2 hour, including disconnecting the truck from the trailer,…
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The drive down HWY 99 was shared with lots of big trucks. We made a couple of stops along the way to dump the gray and black tanks and fill the propane. We only needed two gallons of propane. We arrived at Slash X Ranch, another Harvest Host location, and found that the restaurant is…
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With the Siskyous in our rearview mirror, we drove for five hours on mostly level terrain, braving the trucks and heavily worn pavement. We stopped at two gas stations along the way, paying $4.59 a gallon, California prices, making our way to Vista Ranch. After arriving we bought a nice bottle of wine, sat in…
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We woke up in thick fog which quickly burned off to provide another beautiful day for a drive over Grant’s Pass and the Siskiyous, including a drive by Mount Shasta. When we arrived at the Gold Hills golf course, a Harvest Host location, in the early afternoon, about 2pm. We quickly set up and Steve…
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We left in the dark at 6am in order to avoid Seattle traffic. It worked great and we even avoided rush hour traffic in Tacoma and Olympia. Nice! While at a rest stop we discovered an oversight in our plan. The vineyard we were going to stay at could not accommodate anything larger than 30…
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We spent four days at Fort Casey, Feb 25 – 29, 2024. There were 16 of us in all including Ed & Betty, their family and friends and Kirk and Lynda. The story of the weekend was the “heavy weather”. Sunday the wind was blowing so hard they had to shut down ferry. Monday was…
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Back to where it all began three years ago, Quarry Pond. We had our first shake-down camping trip at Quarry Pond in December of 2020 with our T@b Trailer named Baby Ruth. So, after two cross-country trips to North Carolina, one to Missouri and several to California and Arizona, we’ve come full circle. This time…
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