We just spent a week in Quartzsite, Arizona. The reason we were there was to meet like-minded travelers and to find stuff we couldn’t live without at the gigantic flea market… Read more »

We spent the day in mini-London, also known as Lake Havasu, Arizona. Lake Havasu was founded by a guy named McCulloch. Other Half assures me anyone who has ever owned a… Read more »

Friday morning we packed up and left sunny Mesa, Arizona and headed to sunny Quartzsite, Arizona. Notice the “sunny” theme in our travels.  Other Half is a serious weather watcher… Read more »

Sorry to have fallen off the radar. Had a crazy week filled with grandkids, siblings, friends and white knuckle drives in Toledo Ohio.  I chose their coldest week so far this… Read more »

We left Las Vegas on Friday morning. The Vegas Thousand Trails Campground was fine in a very cozy kind of way. It was the first campground we’ve experienced where the… Read more »

Happy New Year and Welcome 2015! We spent New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. This was a first for us. We expected it to be warm. It wasn’t. Somehow we… Read more »

There’s a lot more to Vegas than the Strip. Of course, everybody knows that. But did you know within 20 miles of the strip are some of the ‘reddest’ rock… Read more »

Our trek from Palm Springs to Las Vegas took us through the “Heart of the Mojave Desert.” It’s beautiful, but wow is it desolate. It’s also beige. We had no… Read more »

Note to self: When a community has A LOT of windmills, it’s a good bet they get A LOT of wind. We experienced this self-evident phenomenon over Christmas here at… Read more »

Today was animal day. I am a huge animal lover, especially furry and feathered animals (definitely not snake, spider or bug type animals). Daughter is also an animal lover, although… Read more »