October 12-16 This year our fall foliage trip was to the Sierra Nevadas and Lake Tahoe in California. We loaded up the RV Van and headed out on Friday Oct 11 and made an overnight stop in Barstow, CA. The next day headed for US Route 395 which is on the eastern edge of the…
September 25, 2019 Today we escape the heat in Phoenix and head for Mount Lemmon at 9,157 feet, which is near Tucson, AZ. Mount Lemmon has the most southern ski resort in the United States…. and you thought Arizona was only desert and very hot!! Before we make the ascent, we travel a route down…
June 2019 We embarked on our RV Van trip on May 31 and returned home by July 1, having covered over 5600 miles and 16 states and visited many friends and relatives. These are a few photos of stops along the way. The first stop was an RV park near Albuquerque, NM. It just so…
April 4 and 7, 2019 Part 3: Joshua Tree National Park is in southeastern California and has a diverse landscape. The story is that the Mormons named the tree after a biblical prophet, Joshua with up raised arms. Joshua Trees are part of the Yucca family and grow in elevations from 2000 to 6000 feet.…
April 5, 2019 – CA State Route 58 in northern Carrizo Plain Part 2 of the California wildflower trip. The Carrizo Plain maybe little known except to photographers and hikers as it is very remote with no services for miles. It is located about 40 miles west and slightly north of Bakersfield, CA. This is…
April 4, 2019 Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve The rains this year, in the Southwest, have made for a Super Bloom in both California and Arizona. We now travel in a Mercedes Sprinter RV RoadTrek Van, it is 22 feet long and has all of the amenities to be self contained. I want to focus on…
