After leaving Baja, we spent a few days at the Pio Pico and Wilderness Lakes Thousand Trails campgrounds in Southern California. Wilderness Lakes was anything but wilderness as it turned out to be surrounded by the ever-growing suburbs of LA. We did enjoy some wine tasting in nearby Temecula and Jaime cranked through some laundry. […]
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Another Borrego New Year
For the second year in a row, we rang in the New Year at Rockhouse Road in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Last year we met Stacey and Gary Quimby of www.pauhanatravels.com . This year we were joined by fellow Xscapers Kirk and Anya, Dan and Lisa, Kelly, Denny and Veronica, Bill and Porter, and Camille and Bryce. For New […]
Happy Holidays 2017
I’ve been a complete blog slacker so here’s one post for 11/17/17 – 12/28/17. We went back to the Thousand Trails in Palm Springs and met up Denny and Veronica for Thanksgiving. I cooked a 14-pound turkey breast in our convection oven which turned out pretty good after a minor fire and ditched effort to […]
New Year in Anza-Borrego
We made a quick hop from Palm Springs to a boondocking area in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park for New Years. We had spent some time in mainly the Southern area of the park with my parents and wanted to see more of what the area had to offer. This is basically just wide open desert that […]
Merry, Merry
Nothing too exciting happening here. We pick up the Bago next week and hit the road again. Looking forward to more adventures in 2017. My photo of the Bago in Lone Pine won the Escapees RV Club photo contest and will appear sometime in 2017 on their magazine cover. I’m still having fun with the […]
South Bay and Santa Ynez
We left Palm Springs and the Bago behind after Thanksgiving to stay with friends in LA and Santa Ynez. It was great seeing friends we haven’t seen in awhile. I took my inflatable out with our friend Chris in Redondo. He’s on my old board I sold him before we left town. Jerry is a […]
Joshua Tree National Park
We decided to put the Bago in storage for the holidays so we could visit friends in LA and stay out in Palm Springs. A big bonus in Palm Springs is all the great hiking and surrounding areas like Joshua Tree. The trees look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. There’s a great […]
Mojave National Preserve
We’ve become certified desert rats. After leaving Death Valley we headed South for Mojave National Preserve. The area is administered by the National Park Service and features expansive mesas, joshua trees, tortoises, jeep trails, and giant yuccas. We stayed at the Hole in the Wall Campground. Despite a dirt road detour thanks to Google Maps and […]
Death Valley National Park
Our quest for sun took us to the hottest, driest, and lowest point in North America. Death Valley did not disappoint with clear skies and the temperature hitting the 90’s at a our camp in Furnace Creek. During the day we headed for higher elevations and cooler temps. We took a rocky and rutted dirt […]
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
We followed the sun and found beautiful 75 degree weather outside of Lone Pine, California. The Alabama Hills are familiar even if you have never been here as many commercials, movies, and TV shows have been filmed here. The hills feature otherworldly rock formations and sit at the base of Mt. Whitney and the Eastern […]