November 11th, 2022 was our big, much anticipated border crossing day so we started out early. Our plans pretty much came off without a hitch with an easy drive to the border crossing at Sonoita, Arizona and no wait to get our paperwork approved AND WE GOT THE FULL 180 DAYS! Now for the 1.5…
Twenty-nine Palms/Quartzsite
We were so flipping happy to get into the lower elevation desert areas and friendlier locales after our experiences in Joshua Tree. We had planned to stay at Twenty-Nine Palms but it’s so darned ritzy that the RV parks (we were willing to pay the prices) would NOT allow any RVs that were more than…
Twenty-nine Palms: We got kicked out of Joshua Tree!
After the trauma of losing our awning in the Tejon pass and a boondock in the Palmdale Walmart parking lot (during a pretty intense wind/rain storm) we were ready for a park camp somewhere cool and figured we’d go check out Joshua Tree National Park when we arrived at Twenty-nine Palms. As for Palmdale…we saw…
Palmdale, California and the Tejon Pass incident
These photos are of the trip from Dunnigan to Palmdale…we were so happy to be entering the desert and warmer weather although we ended up going straight into a pretty intense storm. The worst of it was going through the Tejon Pass when 70+mph wind gusts partially opened up one side of the RV awning…
Dunnigan, California
We drove through the California redwoods which was a beautiful but kind of a nail-biting journey on windy roads in the rainy conditions. We were happy to emerge after that journey down into the central valley of California with warmer, dryer temps and eucalyptus trees.
Gold Beach, Oregon
We moved out of our apartment into the RV on October 28th, 2022 and stayed in a local RV park on the Rogue River and then left Gold Beach for Mexico on November 4th. We’d never done any shake down on the RV (no time) so it was our first time doing everything!
Scotia, California
We did not get too far the first day, just into northern California a bit since there were so many errands we had to run in Brookings, Oregon first prior to hitting the road. We’d changed our plan from going over through the passes at Mt. Ashland and down the I-5 because snows just had…
Mexican Friendship for Solidarity & Intention
We’ve tied a set of matching Mexican “friendship” bracelets on each other… We have eschewed any other jewelry or adornments because we wish to completely strip ourselves of any old energy and move into a brand new life w/o any ties. These bracelets are woven in Mexico and reminded us of ocean and blue butterfly…
Wild turkeys in Gold Beach, Oregon
We cried, “Fowl!” when we got up this morning and saw the neighborhood group of wild turkeys sunning themselves up on the rooftop next door. There are seven turkey’s in this group now (down from 9) and one is a male who recently joined them. One turkey appears to have a leg injury and is…
Puerto Penasco: Our first planned destination in Mexico
A great video filmed in the fall (October) of 2019 showing what the south side of Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) is like. Can’t wait to come out of the rain and wind of the PNW and land here for a week or so to recoup before moving further south (towards Mazatlan).
