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02/09/2019

02/09/2019

It was a rainy day when we drove up to Many Glacier, so we watched the rain over the lake while enjoying our lunch and a bottle of wine.

28/08/2019

For our summer trip, our first destination was Glacier National Park's Two Medicine Campground, where we stayed for 4 weeks, We then moved on To Grand Teton National Park, Gros Ventre Campground, for 2 weeks, and finished up with a week at Rocky Mountain National Park, Pebble Creek Campground.

28/08/2019

29/03/2019

On our Spring trip, warm weather has been elusive, until we decided to go to Florida. Finally sitting outside, wearing shorts. I don’t know about what your experience has been, but with rare exception, the past year has been a chilly one for camping. Able to do much less outdoor relaxing than usual.

25/02/2019

Things to do in Quartzsite, 2019 edition: the Blythe Intaglios are prehistoric ground formations. Located along the Colorado River drainage, and are well marked on US 95 north of Blythe, CA. they seem to be directionally oriented, and there are anthropomorphic and animalian figures. There’s another one north of Quartzsite of Plomosa Road.

18/12/2018

Merry Christmas from CasitaTrek🎅🏻🤶 We’re spending Christmas boondocking in the desert, in the KofA National Wildlife Refuge near Quartzsite. Ocatillos in bloom provide natural Christmas decorations. 🌵🌴🎄

27/11/2018

We finish our trek through the Four Corners at Hovenweep National Monument, and the crowning jewel of the Ancestral Puebloan period, Chaco Culture National Historic Park.

26/11/2018

I just ran across this article. The book looks like it covers a lot of what I was thinking about during our recent trek through the Four Corners.
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/review/2018/11%E2%80%8B/aztec-salmon-and-puebloan-heartland

Five years ago I visited for the first time the “Puebloan Heartland,” defined in this book as the area between Mesa Verde to the north and Chaco Canyon to the south. I knew of Mesa Verde National Park and Chaco Canyon National Historical Park but was unaware that these famous Ancestral Puebloan ...

24/11/2018

We planned heading toward the Moab area, but we detoured to Mesa Verde National Park first, searching for better weather.

24/11/2018

We've prowled around the Four Corners for the past 30 years, doing a lot of backcountry exploring on 4WD accessible only roads. Towing a trailer to many of those sites is not possible, but our goal for this trip was to re-visit several locations, and we threw in the North Rim of the Grand Canyon as a bonus.

22/09/2018

After 11 happy years trekking in our Casita, last spring we sprang for an Oliver Legacy Elite II, otherwise known as a “Casita on steroids”. This model is double axle, double hulled, and configured like a Casita Liberty and Spirit were joined at the hip. We still consider it our “casita”- it’s still a little house, at only 18 feet living space.

22/09/2018

At Homolovi State Park, Winslow AZ, there are several Pueblo ruins from the 1200-1300 era, some partially excavated. Winslow also has the iconic “standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona” statue, and the “there’s a girl, my lord, in a flat bed Ford” mural.

22/09/2018

On our current trek around the Four Corners, we met some friends at Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City RV Park, and took the guided tour of Acoma Pueblo, the oldest continually inhabited city in the US.

14/07/2018

A few pics from our summer trek to the PNW and back. Not done yet

22/03/2018

Now available in my Etsy shop- a cross stitch pattern for the Oliver Legacy Elite II and for a Casita. https://www.etsy.com/shop/CrossStitchbyRuth?ref=search_shop_redirect

02/02/2018

Things to do in Quartzsite- go to Palm Canyon in the KofA National Wildlife Refuge, and take a beautiful 1/2 mile hike on a good solid trail to get a view of the only naturally occurring palms in AZ. Remember a walking stick and water.

10/01/2018

As we continue our adventure boondocking in the KofA National Wildlife Refuge, today we were invaded by a small group from rvforum.net. It’s a HUGE forum designed to be all things to any kind of wheeled RV. So we get humongous,generator running, Motorhomes about 100 feet from us. The organizer did graciously stop by to talk before they moved in, and they seem otherwise well behaved. But, as I said to the SO, we are small trailer snobs, and recoil from such conspicuous consumption. OTOH, they wouldn’t reject us for being a tiny little fiberglass trailer, so maybe we’ll join them. OK, probably not.

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an RV or an interest in RVing.

03/01/2018

We took our new tow for a 4WD test in the KofA. This trail went to a natural tank in a box canyon which was still holding water after about 3 months with no rain in the area. Sign of Bighorn around the tank. The area also has a number of sites, usually under a cliff shelf, with grinding holes like this one. This one was over a foot deep, and there were 5 others in this alcove.

31/12/2017

New Years Eve at the KofA National Wildlife Refuge, King Canyon Road. We’ll be here until the black tank is full, then will relocate somewhere nearby. KofA is an acronym for King of Arizona mine, a gold mining operation in the heart of the Refuge. In the wildlife refuge, there are Desert Bighorn, mountain lion, bobcats, and a rare species of pronghorn from Mexico. Nobody ever sees these critters.