Patagonia Lake was a nice, scenic place to camp, and there was a very nice visitor’s center on site. The kids did their Jr. Ranger program, and the nice folks at the visitor’s center sent them home with not only badges, but a cool rattlesnake poster and trout bookmarks. On a previous visit to the […]
Tombstone, AZ and the Tombstone County Courthouse State Park…
On Friday, we traveled over to Tombstone, Arizona. You can’t be in southern AZ without checking out Tombstone, right? well… We got there fairly early expecting to find a full day’s worth of stuff to do. Cowboys and stagecoaches, villains and gunfights, all are right up our alley. We actually were disappointed. There was a […]
Patagonia Lake State Park, AZ
We just finished spending a week at Patagonia Lake State Park, AZ; just north of Nogales, MX. We pulled in last Tuesday, and left this morning(Tues). It was a nice park with clean facilities, lots of room (if you park in the no hookups), and friendly staff and volunteers (including a couple from Montana). While […]
Arizona Renaissance Festival near Phoenix, AZ…
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Sunday we moved to our Picacho Peak state park for two nights. On Monday we went to the Arizona Renaissance Festival near Phoenix. It was the most fun! You will have to bear with my random post as all the pictures are out of order…. The festival is a 16th century loose reenactment destination. It […]
The Yuma Quartermaster Depot and the Yuma Territorial Prison…
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On Friday we pulled up stakes and moved from Quartzsite to Yuma. It is only about 90 miles, but took us several hours as there was a lot of road construction. We camped out off of Ogilby Road, which is west of Yuma, in California. It was a lot like camping out on the BLM […]
Joshua Tree National Park
After visiting the Gen. Patton Memorial Museum, we drove up the highway a few miles and into the Joshua Tree National Park. We first saw these interesting plants when we were heading across Nevada back in November; then we pulled off the side of the road to check them out – we had no idea […]
General Patton Memorial Museum, CA
On Thursday, we all drove into California to visit the General Patton Memorial Museum. It is about an hour and a half west of Quartzsite, and was a great stop – we learned a lot about Gen. Patton and WWII. The reason that the museum is located there is that before WWII, General Patton created […]
Quartzsite, Arizona – The RV experience of all RV experiences?
Well, now we can say that we have done Quartzsite, Arizona. We moved west of Phoenix to Q on Monday, and found a nice camping spot in the Plomosa Road North BLM. Camping on BLM in the 14 day areas, like where we were, is free, but is boondocking only. Boondocking is where you don’t […]
Picking Oranges in Arizona…
One of the things that I really wanted to do while we are in AZ, was to pick oranges! I didn’t find a ‘you pick’ place, so I finally just stopped at a little grove that didn’t look like it was wanted. I did ask permission – from a little Hispanic boy. I tried to […]
Just more random stuff…
We just spent a wonderful month near Phoenix! Vaughn has family near there, and we had a great time visiting them all again! They were so sweet to open their homes to our family – literally, open their homes, even when they weren’t there! (how scary is that, to trust your house to 11 kids!!!) […]
