Gimme a Break
We’re so used to writing about bikes, hikes parks and attractions that it’s hard to write about shelter-in-place life when no adventuring is going on in our tiny existence other than streaming the new season of Ozark! Time killers Last
Buying the Bayou
When the April camping cancellation email hit the inbox telling us Big Bend National Park is closed til May 11 it was time for Buying the Bayou. Camping cancelled We’d put it off as long as we could, starting with
Barksdale National Park
Barksdale Air Force Base is home to a fleet of B-52 Stratofortress bombers. These B-52’s that fly over our heads each afternoon entered service in 1961 (before we were born) proving age is just a number. A movie star in
Gimme Shelter
What does it mean to shelter in place when your place is 30 feet of RV continually moving across the country? COVID-19 made us answer that question. Sure, we knew about the Coronavirus when we departed Maryland, but the DOW
Biking Burque
After a month of communing with nature we were ready for livin’ la vida local in central New Mexico and there’s no better way to get to know a city than on a bike. The Spamway ride gave us a
Nuclear Spamway
Albuquerque is famous for its history with nuclear power. Sandia Labs, home to the National Nuclear Security Administration, sits adjacent to Kirtland AFB. It makes a beautiful backdrop to our panoramic view from the Fam Camp. Los Alamos, home to
Albuquerque 2000
Betty rolled 2000 miles yesterday. That’s 26 days in 5 states visiting 6 national and 2 state parks biking, hiking and touring canyons, hoodoos, reefs, goblins, mesas, dunes and arches. The Apple pedometer credited us with 327,316 steps for 132.9
Prepare for Battle
In yesterday’s episode of Game of Thorns, Eric washes tubes in buckets trying to find the leaks that flattened his two tires the night before. Flat tires – the gift that keeps on giving. Happy Mother’s Day! After a few
Game of Thorns
We rolled like Bourdain today – leaving Gila Bend for a 360 mile trek to Nellis Air Force Base in Sin City. Eric had no reservations about the drive, no reservations at the Desert Eagle Fam Camp and no reservations
Thank you, next!
While we thought we were on the verge of a committed relationship with Tucson, two flights, thermal temps and a tired landscape crushed our crush and we’re ready to say … Thank you, next! When we left Davis Monthan in