OK, so “vanniversary” may not be the most appropriate term anymore but I am sticking with it anyway. It was on this date in 2011 that I started living full time in the van. I started what would become my 2012 year of travels by heading South, out of Colorado,...
Over the past two years, Kerri has always spoke so highly of camping at Rincon Parkway in Ventura. I’ve driven past the place a few times and always wondered why anyone would pay to camp there. Not only is it barely out of town, it has a major highway and...
Our original plan to start our 2017 year has been to jump over the Sierras and bring Kerri down into Death Valley for her first time. Unfortunately, the recent cold snap steered us to lower elevations and a safer driving route. It also gave us the opportunity to see a...
For the past two weeks, while the Airstream was in for servicing, we were mooch-docking in Big Blue outside my family’s place in the East Bay, down at sea-level. Certainly not the most scenic of places we have stayed, but with my son flying out for a visit and the...
The Airstream went in for a few weeks of repairs – minor repairs, nothing to be worried about – so we piled into the ‘vacation home’ that is Big Blue (yes, he will still be known as Big Blue) and set out for a weekend journey. First stop was a...
I have talked about it for years, but the cosmetics of my vehicles have always taken a back seat to the mechanics. Big Blue has always been mechanically fit, and the minor inconvenience of the paint falling off has been just that; minor. Up until Kerri that is. It was...
We made it back to Kerri’s parent’s property in Grass Valley, CA last weekend. It is from here that we started our 2016 travels, and it is here that we will end 2016. We covered some good ground this past year, most of which was all new to me, and...
The final week before arriving at Kerri’s parents property in Grass Valley, and what will start five to six weeks of staying put (mostly) between our respective family’s homes, was spent just a few hours north, at Eagle Lake near Susanville, CA. I admit that I was not expecting anything...
We left Klamath Falls in the late afternoon on route to cross into California for a night’s camp in the national forest just outside of Lava Beds National Monument. Less than a two-hour drive, we arrived shortly before sunset and found the spot we researched to be too small for...
Just a little, I swear. I didn’t know I was lying, but I was. See, a few weeks back I compiled a definitive list of all National Parks I have visited since I started this lifestyle. Previously I had used an app on my phone to keep track, but it...
