Milton, Florida: Gearing up for another journey.
View Milton Photo Gallery>> Well we are back in the Pensacola Area. Our good friend Bryan has offered up a spot at his house for us to park the motorhome for our stay in Milton. It was great, we were right on the water. Although the water is so warm rightow I amot...
Atlanta, Georgia: Ready…1…2…3…FLASH!
Well it was time for another Miss Georgia American Coed Pageant so we left the motorhome in Pensacola for the weekend and drove up to Atlanta in the Jeep. We stay at the Westin Perimeter North where the pageant is being held. It is a veryice hotel and is pet friendly...
The journey back East.
Manteca, CA: The journey back had a scheduled stop in Manteca, CA at the Thousand Trails Turtle Beach for us to give the coach a once over. I changed the oil and planned on replacing brake pads on the rear brakes. Upon inspecting the pads I realized Ieeded to...
Sonoma County, California: As farorth as we go.
More Images from Sonoma County >> Arriving into our Thousand Trails Russian River preserve we made our way to a perfect RV site...or so we thought. It was wooded yet had a view of the sky for our satellite dish, grass just outside the door for the dogs. But it was on...
San Francisco, California: Buses, ferries, and street cars
More photos from San Francisco >> Well upon entering San Francisco we took 19th ave. over the Golden Gate bridge with the CruiseMaster through heavy downtown traffic, but it was well worth it to see the city. We could barely see Alcatraz out in the bay due to the...
Big Sur, California: oooohh, aaahhhhh, wow!
More photos from Big Sur >> Well the time has come to fulfill a dream, my dream to drive highway 1 from Monterey to Big Sur. And this was one dream realization that didot disappoint. It was beyond words. One must see it to understand. I fell in love, Iever wanted to...
Santa Cruz, California: California Dreamin’
More photos from Santa Cruz >> I gotta start this blog with stating that this is a place I would love to settle down for a while. It is the best place to live for our lifestyles. Too bad we willever be able to afford to live there 🙁 We just had time to tour around...
San Benito County, California: Blazing the Wine Trail
More photos from San Benito>> NOTE: The hill past San Luis Obispo is a long steep climb for a motorhome towing a vehicle. Once again we found ourselves heading into the rural landscape of California to stay at a Thousand Trails at San Benito. But instead of farm land...
San Jose, California: Silicon Valley
We had only one evening in San Jose but it was a really good one, I will let Sharon write this one because it was her cousin we met up with. But I want to give a thank you to Greg and say that it was awesome getting to spend time with you and getting to know you...
Santa Barbara, California: “Just don’t look down”
More photos from Santa Barbara >> Driving up from L.A. was pretty awesome as far as scenery. The coastline on the West Coast is so different than Florida’s coastline. Huge Mountains going right to the edge, big rock islands and ocean cliffs just inspire me. The only...
Los Angeles, California: Fresh and Natural
More photos from L.A. >> The drive into L.A. hit a glitch with a blowout on the 10. If you haveever been to California they refer to all their highways as “the”. For example we took the 10 to the 605 to the 105. Luckily it was a rear tire and we have two on each side...
Claremont, California: City of Trees and Ph.D.s
The traffic gods looked down on us and gave the CruiseMaster smooth passage to Claremont. We stayed at a veryice KOA at the Fairplex in Pomona. We didot have much time to check it out as my Claremont Exhibition was later that day and I had stuff to get ready.& It was...
Redlands, California: Shoes, shoes and trains!
The Fisherman’s Retreat RV Park in Redlands was a mixed bag. At one end of the park there was lush landscaping and well-maintained buildings. The sites were small but level and cement. We were assigned a site along one of the three lakes, we really liked that view....
Big Bear Lake, California: Down goes Randy, Down goes Randy
More photos from Big Bear and Oak Glen >> One of the things we wanted to do while out west was to go to a ski resort and take the lift to the top of the mountain with our bikes and ride down. With Bear Bear Mountain only an hour from Oak Glen where we were staying it...
Oak Glen, California: Lions, Coyotes and Bears oh my.
More photos from Big Bear and Oak Glen >> Situated up in a valley in the San Bernardino Mtns Oak Glen proved to be a rough uphill climb for the Cruisemaster trudging along at 10-20 mph. Once we finally arrived at the top we were greeted with cool mountain air and a...
San Felipe, Mexico: A detour through the Baja
More photos from San Felipe >> The purpose of this journey of ours is to exploreew places and makeew friends with people from all over. Our recent trip to the baja served both of these purposes perfectly. Sharon wanted to visit an old friend of hers, Liza in San...
Palms Springs area, California: The heat is on!
Well it seemed to be hotter here than in Phoenix, but that may be just because summer is closing in. It was hovering around 100-105 range under clear skies for the entire time we spent there. Which sounds really hot, which it was, but it was bareable compared to the...
Ehrenberg, Arizona: Another Desert Oasis.
When we crested over the hill we saw the small town of Eherenberg sitting in a valley of green along side a beautiful clear river surrounded by the dry, rugged landscape of the Sonoran Desert. We were so happy to see green and water, the desert has started taking tis...
Scottsdale, Arizona: Second stop on the “tour” 🙂
Our first outing to Scottsdale was to scout out the Mandala Tearoom which was to serve as our venue for the upcoming One Shoe Diaries exhibition. It was a great little tearoom/cafe that served an organic vegan menu selection so Sharon was in heaven. It was also had...
East Valley of Phoenix, Arizona: A sea of brown, beige, sand, toupe, adobe…etc.
More photos from Arizona >> The second we got into our Destination of Mesa we were greeted with unwelcomeness. It could have been our older motorhome (1998) or the puggles, or the fact were under 55 years old, or all of the above. Whichever it was it wasot right. The...
Las Cruces, New Mexico: Everyone in the desert is running from something.
More photos from Las Cruces >> Where to begin? I guess from the first arrival into the Coachlight Bob’s Inn and RV Park. Upon first site we were a littleervous to say the lest. It looked like a glorified truck stop with a lot of transient people staying there. Not a...
Balmorhea, Texas: A desert oasis.
More pics from Balmorhea, TX >> Driving from San Antonio we seemed to be passing into another world, the desert. Upon pulling into the tiny west Texas town of Balmorhea we were taken back a bit. It seemed like aice place, small town feel but a little on the...
San Antonio, Texas: Remember the Alamo!
We didot actually stay in San Antonio but rather 30 miles or so west of it, at Medina Lake set deep in Texas Hill Country. This was our first true taste of being out west. Bandera a small townearby hails itself as “the Cowboy Capital of the World”. We were...
Austin, Texas: So many pubs, so little time
More photos from Austin >> Arriving at the road leading to McKinney Falls State Park , Sharon and I witnessed something awful. We saw a pit pull kill a small dog on the side of the road in a matter of seconds. We saw a guy break them up but we really couldot tell what...
Shiner, Texas: Where there’llever be a drought.
More photos from Shiner and Columbus, TX >> We visited the Spoetzl Brewery that produces the Shiner Beer lineamed after the town it is headquartered in. Oddly enough the Spoetzel Brewery brews in the German Tradition of beer making because...come to find out this Hill...