I stopped for gas in Needles, CA and it was so hot (113*), I could hardly breathe. I decided I wasn’t stopping again until the temperature cooled down a bit. I found a camping spot in Kaibab National Forest along my route on I-40 in Arizona. I didn’t really pay attention to directions when I […]
2023-08-04 Florida Bound Again
I left out a lot of personal stuff that happened since the kids visited in March, but this is a van life blog, not my personal blog. However, to explain my travels from this point on, I’ll say things were not going well in Florida and I was beside myself trying to manage the situation […]
2023-07-14 Idaho to Bay Area
We again stayed at Rye Patch in Lovelock, Nevada, although this time the campground was full. We managed to get one site with an electrical hookup, which was badly needed in the extreme heat. We added Idaho to our travel map and checked out the dam since we were in a different campground loop than […]
2023-07-13 Yellowstone to Idaho
I was disappointed when I tried to run the generator that a) first it wouldn’t start; and b) after flipping onboard breaker it would start, but not charge/power. I was probably going to have to visit STG’s shop in Tennessee to get it fixed. I suspected something didn’t go quite right during the lithium conversion/installation. […]
2023-07-12 Yellowstone Day Four
The park contains quite the varied landscapes and volcanic features. I started thinking maybe it wasn’t so safe to have so many people traveling through it every day. We finally saw a bear, so I think we checked all the boxes, although it was so far up the hill, I’m not sure it counts. A […]
2023-07-11 Yellowstone Day Three
Pardon the photo of Old Faithful. I took video of the actual eruption. The timing seemed off.
2023-07-10 Yellowstone Day Two
There is no cell signal in the park and our Starlink wasn’t mounted in a way it could travel, so we relied entirely on the GPS in the stereo. Glad it worked since it was part of the stereo install I completed! Baby bison and parents ran right past our van. We spotted elk. Our […]
2023-07-09 Idaho to Yellowstone
I realized our reservation to camp in Yellowstone was a day earlier than I thought, so we had to book it to get there in time. Oops! We stopped briefly at a park in Twin Falls, Idaho to view the falls. We arrived in Yellowstone close to sunset and our first wildlife encounter caused a […]
2023-07-08 Yellowstone Bound
Visiting KT’s step-dad in Tahoe has definitely become our standard when heading to/from California for points east and north. Vacation time arrived and we were bound for Yellowstone. I found us a place along a canal with roaming cows near Elko, NV – although it geotagged it as Carlin, NV. The most notable feature was […]
2023-06-18 Pinnacles National Park
I missed being in the van. KT was away, so I booked a night at Pinnacles National Park since I had never been there and it wasn’t too far away. My mistake was that it was Father’s Day weekend, so the place was packed with families, so I felt like a creepy lady there by […]