“Whew!” we all say in unison. “We have done some traveling since our last post.” Mabel has decided she will write the first in a series of posts about the last few weeks.

MABEL: All I can is “I survived.” I rolled over 460 miles of dirt, gravel, pebbles, tar based gravel, rocks, pot holes, washboard, six-foot-built-up ‘cuz of permafrost, no guard rails, narrow, emergency airstrips occasionally, one gas station only and you-better-have-your-pocket-book-read ‘cuz this-guy-knows-he-has-the-only-service-staton-on-the-road..  Oh, and then I got to do it again going back because the road dead-ends at the Arctic Ocean!

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Miles driven to date:  3,248

ONTO  CANADA

We arrived in Oregon in the rain, stayed in Oregon during the rain and left Oregon in the rain and it followed us FOREVER! Continue reading →

RV LIFE

Campsite at Elephant Butte Lake, So. NM

Leaving NM on 5/15/2017

A rumble began and the rainstorm came in cooling the land as Alice and I settled in for our first nite on the road. On the way to the trash, I dropped the keys accidently into a street grate. Since every door was locked on the van, hence no cell phone, I walked to the camper parked next to mine as Danny, a race car/motorcycle driver, drove his ‘tricked-out’ cycle into a candy-apple red trailer with a skull and crossbones image and FASTER ‘N HELL RACIN’ BIKES written on its side. Continue reading →