Waking up at a frozen RV park in Vinton, we once again felt incredibly lucky to have made it in one piece, especially after once again going outside and seeing just how much ice there was, it was covering everything. It didn’t even bother us too much that our water pump had frozen solid overnight,…
Cross Country Redo – 7 – Into the Maw of the Polar Vortex
No two ways about it, today we experienced some of the most white knuckled driving we’ve done in the RV, maybe ever. As I’m typing this we’re pulled over safely at a RV park in Vinton, Louisiana, just east of the Texas border, well short of our goal for the day, which was San Antonio. …
Cross Country Redo – 6 – Be My Swampy Valentine?
Not that we’re a big Valentine’s Day type of family, but in the before time I never would have imagined we would have spent V-day deep in a Georgian swamp, during a halfway decent rainstorm no less. Yet there we were. Our four day sprint out from California to Florida was a bit aggressive, so…
Cross Country Redo – 5 – Venice (No Not That Venice)
After two great weeks with my parents it was time to hit the road for our return trip home. Other than spending quality time together we didn’t do all that much, which was just fine with us. In the before times we definitely would have gone out to explore but the Covid situation isn’t so…
Cross Country Redo – 4 – We Made It!
How’s that for a non-clickbait title! Was it smart? Probably not. Was it safe? Meh. Was it grueling? You betcha! After another 1000+ mile day of driving the RV we finally made it to Venice, Florida. Despite another bout of crazy rain and wind at about 3am we pushed on since we were so close,…
Cross Country Redo – 3 Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida
After driving a grand total of 1,028 miles yesterday we pulled into a nice enough rest stop somewhere between Houston and Bauemont at about 2:30am local time. Like many things in Texas, Houston is big! It felt like we were driving through the city for about an hour, and that was with zero traffic. Yesterday…
Cross Country Redo – 2 – Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
Texas is big! Real big! We’ve been driving through the state for the past 650 miles, with about 225 more before we hit Louisiana. Considering how late it is now and how far we’ve already driven today, I don’t think we’ll make it out of the state tonight, but we’re trying to see just how…
Cross Country Redo – 1 – Barstow (Yet Again!)
The boys are still attending classes 100% remotely, our jobs are still work from home, we still aren’t doing much in the way of seeing friends in person (boo to that!), and there’s a fueled up, provisioned RV just sitting there all lonely like in our backyard. What does that all mean? You guessed it,…
Winter Break Trip – Joshua Tree
I’m not sure how easy it would be to RV camp inside of Joshua Tree National Park in the best of times, but in our case it wasn’t an option at all due to the Covid related moratorium on overnight camping inside park borders. Boondocking in the middle of nowhere isn’t something we’ve done yet…
Winter Break Trip – Lost Dutchman State Park, Arizona
After a reasonable three hour drive from Dead Horse Ranch we pulled into Lost Dutchman State Park just after dark. Originally all we could reserve was a no hookups site but after calling the park we were able to change that to an electric/water site. The only catch was that we’d have to move sites…