The RV community needs your support.

In these crazy times we  hear a lot about the travel industry hurting from the virus, but usually their talking about airlines and cruise lines, but for the RV community our small business in a lot of case are the mom and pop RV parks. As a community we need to support them so as we travel we will have safe places to park and enjoy the local sights.

If your in the Twin Falls ID area please support The Oregon Trails campground. http://oregontrailcampground.com/ A new generation has taken over the campground and they due an awesome job caring for their customer to ensure that they have a great stay in the area. The campground is clean, quiet,  and close to local attractions.

If your in the Baker City OR area please support Mt. View RV http://www.mtviewrv.com/ this is a family owned and operated campground. This is a clean and quiet place and they are currently experiencing a large number of cancellations due the virus and peoples fear of traveling. We have found the owner to be friendly, helpful, and we’re totally enjoying our stay so much we extended our stay by 5 days.

Please support the mom and pop RV parks along your travels so we will continue to have safe places along our travels.

Thank you in advances for helping our community.

 

Exploring Beatty Nevada.

Beatty Nevada is a cool little town known as the gateway to Death Valley.

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I love the desert for it’s art. There is a closed Brothel in Beatty named Angel’s Ladies and they have an airplane out front.

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Next stop is Rhyolite Ghost Town. These days Rhyolite is more like an artist colony than a ghost town. All photos below are for personal use and not for reproduction! The artists have copyrighted all their art displays.

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Stay tune for Death Valley.

Summer in Oregon.

This year we’re spending the summer in Oregon. We’ve been standing still in Western Arizona but it got to hot so it’s time to go. We left Monday May 5th and our first stop is the town of Beatty, Nevada. Here’s some shots of the Nevada dessert on the way to Beatty.

 

More to come from the road; Death Valley, Twin Falls Idaho’s – Perrine Bridge, Shoshone Falls, and more TBD.

 

#photocation

So in this time of social distancing and the like maybe it time to post photo’s of vacations or just plan travels. Let’s your best #photocation. Today’s photocation is Glacier National Park.

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We got our Kicks on Route 66.

Yesterday was that day where you just can’t do the same thing you’ve been doing for another day. That can only mean one thing, we need to take a drive see something different. We started in the AG country in Laughlin NV.

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Yup kind of an ugly day but the desert is as green as we have every seen it. We took some back roads over to Route 66 “The Mother Road” and followed it through Oatman, AZ to the out skirts of Kingman AZ.

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The colors and textures of a Spring Desert.

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We hope you enjoyed this Pic-cation.

 

 

 

Lake Havasu City 2020 Balloon Festival.

We’ve been talking about going to the balloon festival for as long as we’ve been wintering in Western Arizona and this is the year. The wind as been an issue in previous years, but this year the weather is on our side. We get to Lake Havasu City and the Moon is still in the sky and it’s about thirty-eight degrees.

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The crowd is growing and so is the anticipation and off in the distance you can see character balloons being inflated.

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The moment of truth the Mass Ascension, or not. I guess a lot of  the people fill their balloons but they don’t take them up. In the sky at one time, there was probably five or six balloons that launched from all over the city.

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But the best was yet to come. We had been talking about rescuing a little dog to travel with us. So while we were in Lake Havasu City we dropped by the shelter and found this little guy.

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It’s been so much fun watching him come out of his shell. The funny thing is I’m more of a cat person and Darla is more of a dog person. When we had talked about pets we thought it would be a cat and a dog. Chill’n is the best of both worlds. He likes to hang out in your lap, loves the dog park, and rides in the truck.