We left for our month long overland trip at a ridiculously early hour. Our plan was to barrel through and have a very long travel session until we got to Soccoro, New Mexico. We wanted to stop at the Very Large Array. Things didn’t go as planned. When we arrived at the Great Salt Plains …
For this week’s podcast, you’ll hear a lot of background noise. When we recorded, it was windy, rainy and there was a train nearby. We were camped in Claremore, Oklahoma’ city campground next to the Expo Center. Not a bad campground at all for being right in the middle of town. I enjoyed a nice …
We had been looking forward to this trip since we found out about this event in December. We returned to Woolaroc near Bartlesville, Oklahoma to enjoy their spring mountain man traders encampment. When we first arrived we saw Moe Cresswell. Robert met Moe for the first time at the Pomme de Terre Rendezvous last year. …
It was Robert’s Birthday and he wanted to go somewhere special. We left home and headed west into Kansas then south to Oklahoma. We ended up at the Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve in Bartlesville, Ok. It is a special place that was created by Frank Phillips back in the 1920s. Frank Phillips was …
Our trip to Overland Expo West this year was especially welcomed as we were looking forward to getting away and enjoying the event. We appreciate being selected as volunteers and we loved our assignments. On Thursday, we worked in the HQ tent checking people in. On Friday and Sunday, we were stationed at the Concierge …
Our notes and a few snapshots of our trip to Overland Expo West 2018 Stats: Vehicle: Rented 2018 VW Tiguan Total Miles Traveled: 2566 Total Gallons: 98.6 Avg Cost Per Gallon: $2.760 Average MPG: 26.03 Time Odometer Notes Photo Sunday, May 13, 2018 9:17 AM 1945 Left Springfield House 9:20 AM 1947 Stopped at …
Our overland trip westward was supposed to begin on April 13 but needed to be delayed. Our original plan was to leave out on the 13th and head to Claremore, OK to attend the Green Country Hamfest and spend our first night at the Claremore Expo Center’s campground. Then we were just going to continue …
Picher, Oklahoma is a modern day ghost town. It was formerly a major national center of lead and zinc mining. Over a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation left Picher with groundwater contamination and toxic metal-contaminated chat heaps. Picher was declared uninhabitable and efforts to evacuate initiated. In 2009, efforts to close the town began. There …
Today marks our first anniversary as full-time RVers, or our One Year Nomadiversary so to speak. As we look back at our travel log for the year, we reflect on all the miles we’ve traveled, all the sites we visited, and all the people we’ve met. We started out our new live as full-time RVers …
