I’m departing from the usual format for this update because… well, because we’ve all had to depart from our “usual formats” this spring, yes? Sheesus, this.
I’ll borrow words from our friend, Joodie, at Chasing Dirt, “There is no way to blog today without some talk of The Virus, but I don’t really want to talk about it in any appreciable way. I have nothing to tell you that you don’t already know or aren’t hearing and seeing in about a thousand other places a million times a day. I have been wrestling with whether or not to continue to blog right now at all, not because I don’t have anything to share, but because I don’t want to seem callous or naive about the current state of our world by sharing anything else.”
Same.
Joodie, like me, is a person who needs to write (and you’ll get to “meet” her if you stick with me and keep scrolling). What I don’t need, not always anyway, is for my writing to be seen. So with that in mind, I’ll start with my customary travel map, and after that, just one pic from each of our major stops along the way to this COVID-19 Spring.
from AZ to NM to AZ to CA to Mexico to CA and then across AZ and NM again to TX.
RV miles traveled this quarter: about 3236
(Map does not reflect exact routing.)
A day at the Desert Museum with our friends, Andrea & Shawn of 40FootHouse
Quiet, secluded boondocking in the grasslands
Had repair work done, and spent some time staring at this clock in the lobby.
Service project! Cleaned the place with paint brushes. Read this post.
Ranger-led sunset hike at White Sands National Park
Boondocking and a hot tub
Dinner meet-up with Kevin & Judy, who were our co-managers at the pumpkin patch in CA, back in October
That’s Joodie and her husband! There on the left!
We didn’t know they were staying at the Gila Bend Famcamp when we pulled in, and they didn’t know we were coming, but Joodie spotted us, and we were thus able to spend some quality time together.
She wrote it up here.
Ten days of tequil-aaaahhhhh
(and lots of tacos, relaxation, and fun with friends, all of which you can read about here)
Boondocking in the desert, with PCT hiking for Tim, and recovery from the “San Felipe Flu” for me
Our 3rd springtime gig as camp hosts is stretching quite a bit longer than the planned 3 weeks, so that we can continue to help contain the spread of COVID-19 by staying in place.
Also? We’ve doubled our occupancy by sheltering our younger son and his girlfriend with us.
Hooray for full hook-ups!
And bluebonnets don’t have to worry about social distancing.
Where to next: We’ll ride out April here in Kerrville, and we’re just going to have to wait and see which of our plans in May, June and July are still viable. Same as everybody else.
Please stay well, y’all. Please.
We started full-timing in August of 2015, but I didn’t think to do an annual review until the end of 2016, and it was just a listing on Facebook of places we’d visited. After that, I started using a quarterly format.
- 4Q 2019
- 3Q 2019
- 2Q 2019
- 1Q 2019
- 4Q 2018
- 3Q 2018
- 2Q 2018
- 1Q 2018
- 4Q 2017 (doubles as 3rd installment of our Amazon Camperforce write-up)
- 3Q 2017
- 2Q 2017
- 1Q 2017
- 2016
Love those blue bonnets. At least you have a place to hunker down until we can all figure out how our summer plans will unfold. Crazy times!
Yes, we are thankful that quite by chance, we ended up here.
We hadn’t originally planned to return to this park, or even to Texas, until April. But I was sick, and wanted to get back to a familiar place, so we left CA early.
Turned out to be a good choice!
Loved seeing your pictures of our Baja trip as we sit confined to our home. Seems like ages ago. So glad that you do like to write about all your adventures!
Seems like so long ago and far away, doesn’t it?
Hhhheeeeyyyyy, how did I miss this??? Especially with all this freakin’ time on my hands? Thanks so much for the glowing words and shout-outs! I’m glad you are safe in a good place and still rockin’ at life. I really hope our paths cross again in person — we’ve barely scratched the surface!
I agree! Cut from the same cloth, we are. We must spend more time together, trying the foods, hiking the trails, and having the conversations. You’ll have to teach me how to espy the critters, though. I’m terrible at it!