Today has been a bit of a crazy day. We are headed back to Utah, and drove from Napa, CA to Reno, NV over the Sierra Mountains (arguably one of my favorite drives ever). At just about 4 hours spent in the car, its a bit of a recent record for us. Add to that…
We don’t general consider traveling around in an Airstream to be “camping”. Camping involves a tent, a backpack (preferably), lots of open space, yummy food, a campfire, snuggling in a sleeping bag, and waking up to the sound of the birds chirping, and sunlight streaming through the slightly open, zipped up window. It also involves…
Now that you know how we loosely decide where we are going, where do we stay once we get there? There are many options and we try to vary it up from time to time depending on what is close by and how we are feeling. There are advantages and disadvantages to each one which…
How do we decide where we are going? I’m not going to lie, it is pretty random. We don’t have a method, or a certain system we use to choose where to go. Sometimes we get lucky (Mugu State Park!) other times not so much (Lake Manawa). There are a few things we do though,…
We pulled into a gas station a few nights ago on our way home. On autopilot, I pulled out my wallet, and selected the card we always use for gas. Instead of asking for my zip code, the pump terminal presented a message I haven’t seen in awhile: “Card Expired.” Um, What? A quick inspection of…
I always have to use an air mattress when camping! It makes me feel really old!