With all the devastation caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma this year, a lot of RV snowbirds who had planned to winter in the Florida Keys or on the Texas Gulf Coast are finding themselves looking for someplace else to go. I’ve received a number of requests for suggestions on alternative snowbird roosts. The Florida […]
In our first year on the road, we made a pilgrimage to Slab City in Niland, California. If you’re not familiar with this outpost of individuality, Slab City is located on the site of an abandoned World War II Marine training base. It is home to a motley collection of people that most would call […]
Sad news out of California this week. We have lost another legend. No, I don’t mean actress Shirley Temple Black, though she was a legend in her own right. I’m referring to Leonard Knight, who passed away Monday at a nursing home near San Diego at age 82. Like most new fulltimers, in the early […]
If you ever thought that Florida is all beaches and palm trees, you were wrong. There is a lot of agricultural land (where do you think all those oranges come from?), as well as lots of forests. And there are small and large lakes everywhere you look, as well as a number of rivers. State […]