MAR 1, 2019 – Red Rock Canyon, NV After a relaxing week overlooking Lake Mead and taking great walks, we headed west on March 1, once again. West of Las Vegas we drove through the Red Rock Canyon. Amazing geologic formations. It’s a one way route that was an easy drive. We then went to […]
FEB 2, 2019 – Tubac, AZ After a tip from a former colleague in DC who has moved to the Midwest with the US DOT, we headed south!!! Phoenix was OK – the drive from Silver City was spectacular – up and over the mountains with terrific rock formations and odd but oddly beautifully colored
JAN 8, 2019 – Albuquerque, NM On a short driveabout north of Albuquerque. RV still in the shop, just got the warranty work approved. Took a nice walk along the Bosque of the Rio Grande. JAN 12-14, 2019 – Denver, CO Now in Denver CO! We’re in a nice airbnb on Pearl St, nice neighborhood
DEC 4, 2018 – Montgomery, AL On the advice of our campground host, as the street and neighborhood we’d be in, we did not walk the mile to the bus stop but called Uber to go downtown. We’d been told the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice nearby were not to be
NOV 5, 2018 Maiden Voyage! Well…. finally… we are on the road. Thor Freedom Elite 24FE. 2019. We drove to Hadley, MA for a weekend visit. Now boondocking on our first night on the road, at a Pilot truck stop where we can park for free. Off to a Country Pride (oh no!) For food.
JULY 6, 2018 – Bordeaux Up for some breakfast and final clean up before meeting the taxi to the train station for our ride to Bordeaux, FR. It was a fairly short ride, about 45 min, to le Gare St Jean. Seems taxis don’t queue up in taxi stands here. The people queue
JUNE 22, 2018 – Castelsarrasin, FR June 21 was a travel day, as I flew first to Lisbon from the Azores, and then after many queues and misdirection, I made it to the flight to Bordeaux France. I met Anne Purvis there and we embarked on our adventure with a Tesla taxi ride into
JUNE 16, 2018 June 15 was a travel day, as we flew to San Miguel Island and the town of Ponta Delgada, in the archipelago, the Azores. San Miguel, as I believe the other islands are, is volcanic in origin with very steep hillsides and great mountainous scenery, with trees and fields and we think
xxx JUNE 10-13, 2018 June 10 Caminha is only an hour from Porto but we took the coastal route, turning toward the coast at every turn. We stopped shortly before getting to Caminha for some groceries and headed to our checkin point. It took a while to locate the pastry shop where we announced we
JUNE 6-8, 2018 June 7 6 June was a travel day that was part of our drive up the coast from Lagos. Our flat is just south of Porto in Madelena which is an easy bus or train ride from the old city. We were lucky to arrive with a car so that we could