Wait, did I say July was the next trip? 😀 We decided to get away and do a lithium test. It wasn’t easy to find, but I finally located a “nearby” BLM campground north of Sonoma and got lucky with a bloom. Not a SUPER bloom, but a bloom nonetheless. We were absolutely tickled that we […]
Took a short trip to Ventura, CA. I had no idea where I was going to stay that night, but found a promising looking place in Emma Wood State Beach. Reviews said part of the campground was closed due to erosion, but it sounded like some of it was still open. I got lucky – […]
House shopping 😀 j/k I wanted to see what the inside of a Class B+ was like compared to the van. This is the only model that has the option for a washer/dryer (something we have regularly wished we had). We really liked the layout, but the build quality inside the coach was absolute crap. […]
Riley and I took a stroll on overcast Hermosa Beach in the morning, and as I was snapping photos of the waves breaking behind the lifeguard stand, we were treated to an emerging double rainbow. Nice send off. Despite all the warning signs along the way saying severe storms, stay home, I had no issues […]
I awoke to a stunning sunrise over Oceanside beach. I worked from the beach lot in Oceanside all day (which was fabulous), then packed up and headed a little bit north. What should have been a 1.5 hour drive turned into a 2.5 hour drive, because LA traffic. Ugh! But very happy to have finally […]
Packed up in Dos Picos County Park for last day in San Diego before finishing the trek home. But first, a night on the beach! Oceanside is the best and probably my favorite stop in the Southern California area. It’s one of the rare places I keep returning to. There are two parallel parking sites […]
After three months, I returned to California, two hours from San Diego. Gas prices went up a dollar. Sunset was lovely, but the land I camped on this night was full of trash and needed a “beach cleanup day” for sure. Sunset happened not long after I parked (and I figured after dark, I wouldn’t […]
New Mexico to Arizona! Not many pics today as I put in a bunch of miles in order to meet a high school friend and her dad for dinner (no pics and I’ll blame it on friend forgetting her phone, but I also don’t like selfies lately lol). I got my temporary propane tanks refilled […]
Had a quiet evening at El Cosmico, aside from a javelina scooting through a hole in the fence and walking right past me while I was on the phone with KT. He seemed completely uninterested in me (the javelina, not KT). I stopped to check out “Prada Marfa” on my way back to the interstate […]
Sure enough, it got cold overnight. I awoke to frost on the windshield, but relief that the coyotes didn’t get us overnight. I needed to dump tanks/refil water and checked my apps for anything between where I was and Marfa, only to discover a state park (with camping!) less than 20 minutes away. I could […]