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Happy Traveler RV Park: Palm Springs, California

Jaylyn and John1 year ago6 months ago014 mins

Happy Traveler is an 130-site RV park with tight quarters. It offers full hookups, 30-50 amp service, pool, seasonal activities, shuffleboard and a laundry room. The park does not accept RV’s over 40 feet long. Tall hedges separate each site. We’ve camped here twice but hesitated to write about it because we actually don’t have…

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Lakeview RV Resort: Houston, Texas

Jaylyn and John2 years ago6 months ago011 mins

We’ve never camped in the heart of a major city before but we were pleasantly surprised the experience turned out to be such a positive one when we needed it the most. John was scheduled to be examined by a team of doctors at MD Andersen Cancer Hospital over the weekend after a prostate cancer…

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Making a Splash at the River Walk in San Antonio

Jaylyn and John3 years ago5 months ago17 mins

Natural springs provides the majority of the water for the San Antonio River, which flows from San Antonio to the Gulf of Mexico. The green water at River Walk may look shallow but the depth varies from 2 to 24 feet. You may have heard Texans love tubing in local rivers but this is not that place…

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Camp San Sabá: Where My Indian Texas Ranger Kin Fought

Jaylyn and John3 years ago6 months ago150 mins

Although we may be new residents of Texas, my relatives trace back to Texas for five generations. My Cherokee GG-Grandfather, Lewis Andrew Mulkey was one of those Texas Rangers…

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Antler Oaks Lodge RV Resort in Texas Hill Country

Jaylyn and John3 years ago6 months ago015 mins

After Snowmageddon finally dwindled away, we visited to the nearby town of Bandera, Texas; known as “The Cowboy Capital of the World,” with a population of 957. The charming little town struck our fancy right away…

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Snowmageddon in Hill Country: A Big Texas Howdy

Jaylyn and John3 years ago5 months ago016 mins

Team work makes the dream work. In hardly anytime at all we were packed up and ready to evacuate. Left the RV park in the middle of a sideways blizzard with no regrets. Still no electricity after 16 hours…

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We’re Moving, Y’all! Adios California

Jaylyn and John3 years ago5 months ago011 mins

Keeping an eye on our local booming house prices in our sleepy southern California desert town spearheaded us in the right direction…

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Mathilde “Ma” Preston: Queen of the Desert

Jaylyn and John3 years ago6 months ago019 mins

Cafes and rooming houses in Daggett sprang up. These were used as meeting places for business, as well as entertainment. One of the more popular joints was known as “Ma Preston’s”…

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What’s on Our Desert Bookshelf? Part IV: 20 MORE Good Reads

Jaylyn and John3 years ago3 months ago16 mins

As the saying goes, so many books, so little time. Picking out your favorite book would be akin to picking out your favorite child. Each has its own unique character. We’ve always had a special affinity for older books. Where words took center stage, not glaring, over-edited photos. Their crafty use of language painted vivid…

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What’s on Our Desert Bookshelf? Part III: 20 Guidebooks

Jaylyn and John3 years ago5 months ago07 mins

We get asked quite often, “How do you find all the places you write about?” Here’s our secret. It’s all about guidebooks. Some armchair experts may try to tell you how challenging it is to get to a particular site, but if you have the right information about how to get there and what to…

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