Author: Van-Tramp

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Painted Rock Petroglyph Site

Early Saturday morning we were packed up and were ready to roll out of Kofa to a new home. We were not really sure where that was going to be, to be honest, but time would eventually lead us somewhere. First, we had to run into town to resupply for...

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Tapping Kofa

We made it out of California, and then through the desert town of Quartszite, Arizona just in time. It was a week before the huge annual tent-show and things were going to get extremely hectic around this area soon. The usually small town – only a few blocks in size...

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Making a run for it

Immediately after the completion of the sailing lessons (and a night’s sleep) we were up and moving. We had a long day of driving ahead of usĀ – about 300 miles – so I pestered, and pestered, and pestered Kerri until she finally got up from bed. The end result was...

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We are sailors now

The past week we have been in Santa Barbara learning to sail, in preparation of returning to our boat in a few months and doing just that. Even though I felt confident in my knowledge of the mechanics of a sailboat before the week, Kerri did not share my confidence...

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Passing the time and miles

The decision was made to start heading towards our sailing lessons in Santa Barbara. Before the end of the Xmas week we had already left the solitude and adventures of the Mojave and headed South towards Joshua Tree. Sure there was [yet another] government shutdown going on but we were...

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When cabins go wild

Even though we had a great boondocking spot miles down a dirt road all to ourselves, Kerri continued her map reconnoitering. In the process, she found a cabin. The cabin (I will leave it un-named and un-marked) is open to the public and free to use. Our curiosity was peaked...

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Getting stuck, finding a mine

We spent a couple of hours driving a loop of asphalt around the Mojave to scout some already-known boondocking spots when Kerri directed me down yet another dirt road to explore. While the known-spots were just fine, they need to be something special to meet Kerri’s standards, and they did...

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2019 Travels

We started our 2019 travels back in early December of 2018 when we left Bellingham, WA to head South for the winter. As of the time I wrote this, we had no other plans as to what we would do or where we would go once we got down there...

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Xmas with the Joshuas

It’s hard getting Kerri out of bed in the mornings. Really. If the temperature is below 50 degrees, and I am foolish enough to give her a cup of coffee while she is still under the blankets, there is no hope for an early start to our day. And that...

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Returning to life on the road

Just days before Xmas – and on our one year anniversary of our first departure in the van that resulted in a fire – we left Kerri’s parents back in Grass Valley and started our way towards Santa Barbara, CA for our sailing lessons. It felt like the first time...