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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
Cleaning up in El Paso
I drove into El Paso yesterday afternoon only to hang out in a Walmart parking lot for the night and restocked my supplies in the morning. I drove two blocks to a laundry that I spotted coming in to do …
Finding my way to Carlsbad
For the most part, I spent the day driving. After my morning workload, I left the truck stop which I stayed at last night and drove only an hour before stopping for lunch near Fort Sumner, NM. Bosque Redondo Lake …
Shifting winds push me south
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Already, the shifting winds are changing what little plans I had. This morning I woke to the realization that if I did not run as far south as possible, I would wake tomorrow to 20 gallons of ice in my …
Right around the corner
The big day looms right around the corner: Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 28th. It marks the beginning of my new adventure. I will be roaming the land as a nomad, a vagabond, a tramp. I have planned only a single day …
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Oct 19 – End of an adventure
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At 11:30 this morning, I completed my journey back home. The final leg was a simple 4-hour drive from my rest-stop that I stayed last night in Parachute, CO to home in Longmont. My first goal was to shower… and …