We started the long trip to Spokane as planned. Just north of Idaho Falls, at mile 1922 on the odometer, we drove into the Rocky Mountains for the first time on this trip. We have paralleled the mountains and driven over foothills, but this was our arrival in the mountains. As I knew we…
I am not exactly homeless. I just moved around during my working years and made a home for a while wherever I landed. Now, I travel fulltime in my RV. I started in the Midwest and then spent most of my adult years in the West: Colorado, Arizona, California, Wyoming, Idaho. When asked, Where…
I have penciled in a route for my 6 week trip (July 14-Aug 27, 2014). I will be pulling my pop-up camper and stopping here and there. It might seem early to create my route; however, I have tons of research ahead in terms of where to camp en route. I want to get out…
August is gone again. I am not ready for the garden to fade away; I got started late so am just now getting into the swing of things. Yet, September has its own blessings for those of us who live in the Rocky Mountains: Sunday afternoon drives to see the Aspens Migrating birds Cool nights…
On the east slope of the Rocky Mountains, summer thunderstorms swell up in the afternoon. When a storm seems especially dark and menacing, I turn on my weather radio. Such a storm came up the second afternoon camping at Hawk Springs, and the radio told me of a damaging storm with quarter-sized hail and 60…
JJ’s has been silent but I have plenty of adventure to share. I have been camping in the Pike National Forest, west of Colorado Springs. It’s an area with no Internet or cell. I have been blissfully out of touch since Saturday! I started out camping with my son Kerry and his girlfriend Kira and…