Beaumont was a nice and simple stop at the beginning of this trip, and for the first time in years, I made some friends at an RV park; a couple of semi-full timers who originally lived in Baton Rouge. On the day of the drive here, we stopped at the most Texas gas station in […]

OK, so we thought we were going to Beaumont, TX.  Why Beaumont? Well, when I was making the sabbatical plan, it was the right number of hours from San Antonio and looked like it had some interesting things to see!  So I booked the Grand Pines of Texas RV resort in what I thought was […]

It was SO nice to know we were in a place where we would not have to get up and move in the morning!  The kids first order of business was to go swimming BUT the pool was freezing so they didn’t stay in long.  That was good because we had a dinner date with […]

From Will: The overall experience of going out of our way to see these massive caves was very enjoyable. Although the campground that we were staying at lacked electricity, our solar panels came through with enough energy to last us a night. The chosen spot of camp was in the middle of nowhere, so you […]

Our departure from Tucson and travel to Las Cruces was chaotic as we were trying to get a window between Tuscon rain and another Las Cruces wind storm.  David and I jumped into the truck after camp pack up just as heavy drops fell.  We met one brief dust storm on the way to Las […]

It was great to return to Tucson where I lived from 1990 – 1992 while I got an MBA from the University of Arizona.  But before we got to Tucson we paused in Peoria, AZ, home of the Seattle Mariners’ spring training facility and we took in a game!  Visiting Spring Training is SO fun […]