Well, today’s the day. We are on our way to Tennessee for the rest of the month. Robert and I have been stir crazy to get on the road and now the time has finally arrived. We made the decision that this year we weren’t taking off for a month or so at a time. …
Roadside Repair
The elusive humpback green turtle made it up many mountain passes over the past few days and has gone many, many miles. We’ve been keeping watch, and although the temperature gauge would creep up a bit while idling, it quickly returned to normal. It wasn’t acting quite right, but we didn’t see anything wrong under …
Unexpected Adventure
We had an exciting day. We left out from Apache Junction, Arizona with north being our only direction we needed to go. We decided to take Hwy 88 North out of Lost Dutchman’s State Park. After driving for a while we came up on a sign that said “pavement ends in 1/2 mile”! It was …
Overland Expo West 2016 – Our Recap
This was our first year to go to Overland Expo. Last October, we were just off by a week in our schedule to attend Overland Expo East. That was OK, because a hurricane was going through the east coast during that time and pummeled the event with rain. It was last October, however, when we …
Rockhound State Park
Just outside of Deming, New Mexico is the quaint Rockhound State Park. We arrived around 4pm and we were glad that there were plenty of camping sites available. They have several full hookup sites, but we opted for a non-electric site. We were at the top of the hill and had the area all …
Day 5 — Foster Falls and Chicken of the Woods
By 8 a.m., we were packed up and had left the campsite and headed east toward Monteagle, TN. We passed through Winchester and connected on Hwy 41A east. When we arrived at Cowan, we had to stop. It was such a cute small town. We needed to take some photos. We were stopped by a …
Day 3 — Started Soggy then Had A Little Meltdown
Sunday morning was a little soggy. That didn’t deter us though. We folded up the tent and left our campsite by 7:15 a.m. We stopped at the entrance so that we could take some photos, check the tires and make a smoothie. We were just under a quarter tank of gas, so we headed to …
Day 2 – Quirky Festival and Meriwether Lewis National Monument
It was Saturday and we took our time in getting up and around. By 9:20 a.m., we were packed up and headed toward Centerville, TN to the National Banana Pudding Festival. He headed east on Hwy 100 toward Centerville. At 11:45 a.m., we arrived in Centerville and enjoyed a craft fair on the square and …
Our Adventure Begins
The Subaru is packed and ready to go. Robert has rigged up our power supply for our little travel refrigerator and our traveling office. That consists of two extra 12v AGM Deep Cycle batteries, an inverter and several connectors that do a lot of cool things. He had been busy with the prep work for …