RV Life

Lancaster & Lake Havasu City

The year started with a trip to Lancaster, CA in the high windy desert 70 miles north of Los Angeles. It’s not exactly the garden spot of California, but it is home of the Lance Camper factory. Back in March we purchased a new 21 foot Lance travel trailer and some warranty repair work neededContinue reading “Lancaster & Lake Havasu City”

A blog post from Deb: So, how do we rate our RV life to date? We give it a 6 out of 10 so far on the adventure scale. The weather has been somewhat cold, rainy, or overcast most days ever since we left California, and that accounts for the lower score. We did haveContinue reading “RV life”

Cuero, TX and the DeWitt County Courthouse Clock Tower

On the road to Goliad, we stopped for a break in Cuero, TX. The RV was parked next to the DeWitt County Courthouse and we were eating lunch on the RV steps when the Courthouse maintenance man walks by and lets us know the Courthouse is open if we want to go inside. They evenContinue reading “Cuero, TX and the DeWitt County Courthouse Clock Tower”

Fort McKavett

We took a short six mile detour off the highway for an interesting visit to Fort McKavett. It turns out everyone was preparing for the Christmas program later that day. Decorations were being made in the traditional way they might have been back in the 1860’s when the fort was a remote military post duringContinue reading “Fort McKavett”

City of Rocks

We have been wandering eastward toward Texas and stopped for two days at the City of Rocks State Park north of Deming, NM. It’s a pretty unique place. As the name suggests the park really is a city of very large rocks with several short hiking trails through them. The weather turned chilly and theContinue reading “City of Rocks”

Slab City, California

Slab City is a pretty interesting place and since we are meandering east on our way to Austin for Christmas we decided to stop for a few days. It’s am unregulated encampment on the site of an abandoned Marine barracks where 150 or so permanent residents and 1,000 or so folks in all manner ofContinue reading “Slab City, California”