Crested Butte, Colorado July 2-15, 2018 Crested Butte was 12 days worth of boondocking in an idyllic mountain meadow, reveling in wildflowers, hummingbirds, and friends. I mean, it wasn’t all grand theatrical numbers from The Sound of Music. There were also rainy days of cabin fever, bad attitudes about finishing up our school year, and […]

April 15, 2018 We happened to be in the right place at the right time for this honor!  To read the full artcle on the Abuquerque Journal online, click here.    

Chimayo, New Mexico (eventually) April 14, 2018 We’d been paying for campgrounds for several weeks and had been staying mostly in towns, so it felt like time to get a little dose of seclusion and save some money by boondocking. We read great online reviews of a site just north of Santa Fe called Overlook […]

Raton, New Mexico April 11-14, 2018 We drove north of Santa Fe to spend a couple of quiet days in the small town of Raton. It’s amazing how locations within the same state, only a couple of hours away from each other, can feel like worlds apart. Raton was home to a coal mine that […]

Santa Fe, New Mexico April 4-11, 2018 I had heard that Santa Fe was cool and had a great downtown, but I really had no expectations. I had no idea that there’s a whole song in the musical Rent (my brother tells me) that is about how all the New York artists should give up […]

Albuquerque, New Mexico March 21 – April 4, 2018 We were so eager to get back to Albuquerque during “Year 2”.  We were surprised in 2016 by how much we loved this city, and we were excited to live at Enchanted Trails RV again, visit the Explora, and hit the trails, old & new. We […]

Rabbit Valley, Colorado July 2-3, 2018 In between our days of fun with friends in Kanab, UT and a chance to meet up with other traveling friends in Colorado we had very little time.  There wasn’t enough time to plan an additional destination in between, so we decided to make the 8.5 hour drive one […]

Kanab, UT June 1 – July 2, 2018 We haven’t stayed an entire month in very many places. We spent one winter in Arkansas with my family, and one in Arizona with Brad’s family. Besides that we have only done the “month stay” in 3 locations…Wenatchee, WA, Pahrump, NV, and now Kanab, UT. Since we […]

Kanab, Utah June 23 – 29, 2018 I don’t like to have a detailed plan that I have to follow.  Such a thing feels like a restriction to me, and any restriction makes me feel stifled and frustrated.  It’s like the feeling of standing at a spot in a swimming pool where you can touch, […]

Carlsbad, New Mexico March 16-21, 2018 When our dear friends the Waldroops messaged to ask if we were anywhere near Carlsbad, we couldn’t have been more delighted to say yes. Tanya & Dakota became our close friends in college, and since that time our 4 daughters have become very special friends as well. Our entire […]

Bryce Canyon, Utah May 25 – June 1, 2018 In our first loop around the US we only visited Bryce Canyon National Park and the surrounding area on one quick day trip.  And like so many parts of Utah, it demanded a second more thorough look. We found a wonderful boondocking spot right between Red […]

Kanab, Utah June 2018 Did I mention that we found a hummingbird nest? Brad says that this is the most excited I’ve been about any other single element of our RV Adventure. I would never have asserted such a thing, but I’m also not going to argue with him. When we pulled into our site […]

March 13-16, 2018 Alamogordo, NM We stayed in the town of Alamogordo to visit White Sands National Park – a part of New Mexico that we weren’t able to explore last year. At first we thought we might stay 2 or 3 weeks, but our plans changed based on a chance to see friends in […]

March 12, 2018 Tombstone, Arizona We hadn’t really planned to make a trip through Tombstone, but our drive from Yuma to our next stop in New Mexico was about 8 hours, and that’s just more than we like to do in one day. We found an RV Coop at almost exactly the half-way point on […]

February 28-March 3, 2018 San Diego, CA & Joshua Tree National Park During our winter stay in Yuma, we took the time one weekend to drive the 3 hours west to San Diego.  I have wanted to visit the San Diego Zoo ever since the Disney Channel taught me at age 4 that it’s the […]

January/February 2018 Yuma, AZ I’m calling it a makeover – not a renovation – because we didn’t move any walls or change the structure of our home in any way. I feel like that’s required in order to qualify a change as a “renovation”. What we did was a makeover – new furniture, paint, and […]

Yuma, Arizona January 31, 2018 During the winter months, Stumbo has been parked in a neighborhood at the very far southeast corner of the Yuma metro area, on the very southeast edge of the neighborhood.  So just across the street from where we’ve been staying is the desert, parts of it privately owned, but largely […]

Yuma December 22, 2017-March 12, 2018 Our stay in Yuma would best be described as our “season” in Yuma. Coming in at 80 days, this is the longest continuous stay at any one place by far. We settled into a routine, enjoying the luxuries of being parked in Brad’s parents’ driveway, including but not limited […]