Yes, even though I work here now, I wanted to do a blog post about the California Trail Interpretive Center. Darlene and I went and visited it as tourists before my first day working there, and, of course, I've learned quite a bit about the place since starting work. This is a truly cool place [...]
Category: Surprise Encounters
Amherst College Geology Museum
We took the opportunity to drive down to Massachusetts to Amherst (about 90 south of us) to visit the Beneski Museum of Natural History on the campus of Amherst College. I had read a little about the displays they have there and, with my interest in geology, wanted to go see it. Edward Hitchcock was [...]
Travel Log 1/15/2019 through February, 2019
We left Las Cruces, New Mexico on Tuesday, January 15 to head to South Texas. Initially, we had wanted to spend some time in West Texas, but a short-term job opportunity presented itself which required us to get to South Texas in a bit of a hurry. We drove 284 miles to Fort Stockton, TX, [...]
Travel Log 6/20/2018
Scranton, Pennsylvania area While in the Scranton area, we spent three nights at Lackawanna State Park. We were in a loop pretty much by ourselves (since it was midweek). We left on Friday, so I'm sure the campground probably filled up, but it was definitely quiet while we were there. The park has a nice [...]
Travel Log 5/23/2018
Now that we're starting to get more of a routine going, I'm going to change the travel blogs to be regionally-based-rather than day-based. I'm finding that this full-time RV living is more like living in a traditional house. You don't necessarily do things every day that are particularly interesting to a blog reader (e.g. well, [...]
Downsizing jump start
A wonderful thing happened this weekend. As you know, we're looking at downsizing by eventually selling our house and getting an RV to live and travel in. The plan is for this to happen in early 2018. However, we've had an extra car sitting in the driveway for several months now and knew we would [...]
