In the last couple of weeks I have had three or four e-mails from blog readers asking about RV financing. Getting a loan for a big ticket item like an RV can be a challenge, and if you are a fulltimer it can be all but impossible through many lenders. One e-mail was from a […]
America’s national parks are a treasure we can all enjoy, and as a thank you to the 280 million visitors that visit our national parks every year, the National Parks Service has declared several Fee Free Days in 2014. Upcoming dates to remember are: * April 19 Opening Weekend of National Park Week * August […]
For the last 10 days we’ve been pretty much living at the hospital and then hospice with our friend Shar and her husband, getting there early and staying late. We would get home in time to check e-mail and Facebook, write a blog, and go to bed. So I have not gotten much work done […]
Since we’ve been at the hospice facility most of the time lately, I am posting previous stories from the Gypsy Journal every few days. This story appeared in our January-February, 2009 issue, and prices quoted in the story are from that time period. For years we have heard about the amazing bargains to be found […]
A while back I wrote a couple of blog posts about people who lose animals to predators while camping in the Arizona desert every year, and about the dangers one has to be aware of when in the desert. But the desert is not the only place where you or your pet can get into […]
No, not that artsy-fartsy New Mexico city that we were disappointed in when we visited last summer. Today we’re headed back to Santa Fe RV Park in Apache Junction for a week or so. We want to spend some time visiting with Terry’s parents, and to check in with our friends Jim and Shar Lewis, […]
So what’s worse than getting up at 7 o’clock in the morning? Getting up at 7 o’clock in the morning on another gray, ugly day. Yeah, that’s what it was again yesterday. (Heavy sigh.) Here are a couple of pictures taken in the early afternoon to give you a feel for the place. People here […]