Visitors traveling along I-10 in southern Arizona can’t miss the prominent 1,500-foot peak of Picacho Peak State Park. The Anza Expedition passed through the area in the 1700s and one can only imagine they wished they had the accommodations this campground provides. The Picacho/Tucson NW KOA Journey is located at 18428 South Picacho Highway, Picacho, AZ…
Shoshone, California, “The Gateway to Death Valley” is an interesting village with a full-time population of about 31. That’s 31 people who can wake up and go to sleep with this panoramic view of their home. Dublin Gulch is on the southwest outskirts of Shoshone. The caves were dug out of compacted volcanic ash from…
Welcome to Stonehenge II, located in Ingram, Texas. And to think, it all began with a leftover limestone slab from a landscaping project in nearby Hunt, Texas. Stonehenge II was erected as a quirky art project by the late Al Shepperd and his friend and neighbor, Doug Hill, beginning in 1989. It took 9 months…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Keeping an eye on our local booming house prices in our sleepy southern California desert town spearheaded us in the right direction…
