Feb 21 – We stop in San Jose to visit the Winchester Mystery House.  A strange house consisting of 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors.  Some of the doors lead to nowhere, open to walls, or even open out to an 8-foot drop.  A staircase runs from the floor right to the ceiling.  The story […]

Here is the link to a short video on our Arizona travels. Feb 14-15Heavy rains in the Palm Desert area – they got more than their yearly average in one day!  We do manage to visit Sunnylands Center – beautiful gardens and a retreat for world and national issues.  The gardens feature drought-tolerant plantings. We also […]

Here is a link to our travel video on Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico Feb 8 – Time to cross over into California.  We find some warmth just over the border from Yuma camping out in the desert.  In fact, it is so warm that one of our neighbors is spending the day in the […]

Here is a link to our trip video of Georgia and Florida (including Disney at Christmas) Jan 30 – Still hanging out in the free desert BLM land in Why, AZ.  We head into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.  The organ pipe cactus only grows in Mexico and just in this tiny bit of the […]

Using our free campsite at Snyder Hill as a base, we venture out to Tucson. Jan 24 – A visit to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum keeps us busy for the day!  This museum is largely outdoors with desert gardens, animals of the desert, and raptor demonstrations.  We love the Saguaro cacti everywhere.  As well […]

Here is a link to a video of Washington DC, Virginia, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Jan 19 – we head out of New Mexico through pecan groves, cotton fields, and farmlands to McNeal, AZ.  Whitewater Draw Conservation Area is home to 35,000 sandhill cranes during the winter months.  What a sight to see – flocks of […]

Southern New Mexico is very much like Texas.  We have seen lots of oilfields and lots of desert scrubland.  It is windy as well and freezing at nighttime, so our stay is brief and just in the south. Jan 15 – We are very disappointed that the Carlsbad Caverns National Park is closed due to […]

New England/New York Video Jan 9 – We visit the last two missions in San Antonio, San Juan and Espada.  The small church in Espada is particularly pretty with its small beamed ceiling. Near Austin, we visit Hamilton Pool Preserve Park in Dripping Springs.  This is a beautiful pool/grotto with green water and a large […]

Jan 4 – We reach Texas and some sun, but it is windy.  Still plenty of bayou along the way after passing through the last of Louisiana with its ranches, sugar cane, and rice fields. Jan 4 – In Beaumont, we stop at the Gladys City Boomtown, a replica of an industrial town for oil […]

Dec 28-30In heavy rain, we leave Orlando and head west to the Florida Panhandle.  We stop briefly in Panama City and Navarre at the Gulf beaches.  We use one of the rain days for a good visit to the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum.  Lots of aircraft to see here from WWI to WWII, as well as […]