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Arriving in NorCal, parting way with solar panels
After leaving Slab City I pointed the van North for the first time in 3 weeks. I have stayed very near the Mexico border for some time but now it was time for the wind to take me northward for …
Slab City
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After the hectic day yesterday I was ready to drive off from Slab City before the sun even set. Upon arriving and digging my van out of the sand, I found little that kept my interest in the ‘city’ so …
Arriving at Slab City, Salvation Mountain
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I arrived in the Slab City area just before noon, after jumping my van over some odd part of the road that acted as a launching pad. I figured, in that split second, that the van was a goner when …
Salton Sea
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Holy cow, this body of water is huge! I don’t know what I was expecting, but not a real sea in the middle of the desert… you could not see the other side unless it was the mountains to the …
Dont drive angry
After an overnight rain, I woke to a short drive to Kartchner Caverns state park, pai my $6 and headed to the visitors center where they wanted another $23 for a tour of the caverns! What!?! Why are you taking …
Cochise Stronghold
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“Born in present-day Arizona, Cochise led the Chiricahua band of the Apache tribe during a period of violent social upheaval. In 1850, the United States took control over the territory that today comprises Arizona and New Mexico. Not hostile to …
Back into the wild
After 4 days and 3 nights sitting still in an RV park, I am ready to get moving again. I feel as if I have gone-soft, already growing accustomed to having hot water, 120v electricity, etc. This is not an …
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One of those easy days
Day #17 on the road and today was the first day that I had it “easy”. I slept with an electric heater keeping the van at a comfortable temperature. I woke to a full power to get my morning work …
Willcox, AZ
Yesterday I completed the whopping 1.5 hour drive into Arizona. My destination was Willcox where I was able to borrow the local WiFi at the Visitors Center to download a few large files I needed before the weekend. This took …
New Mexico concluded
I realized that my dislike for New Mexico had softened over the past two weeks. Maybe it is true and one reason there are so beer bottles and cans littering New Mexico and Northern Texas; the more you drink the …
Stuck in Deming for a day
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Not that it is a bad thing… I’ve been parked in Deming, NM all day. It was a big work-day with a promotion going on that needed a lot of my attention. By early evening things had settled enough for …
Another mechanical failure in Las Cruces
In Feb 2011 when I was here I had a brake failure on my way out the White Sands Ntnl Monument. While it was a fairly simple fix, and not all that expensive either, it did dampen my confidence in …