A travel blog about our RV adventures
Category: National Wildlife Refuges
Pah’rump is a Paiute expression meaning water rock. Refreshing and stable, this growing desert town is located an hour outside of Las Vegas and provides most amenities that traveling nomads need. With access to desert, mountains, springs and the wild west, there’s always a new day trip to explore. Goodsprings, NV Nevada has over 700 … Continue reading Home Base – Pahrump, NV
Columbus Salt Marsh The southern regions of Nevada mining produced a variety of ores and minerals besides gold and silver. Copper, borax, salt, iron ore, were profitable enough to bring miners and their families into the hills or flats to build settlements around the mines. Not as grand or wealthy as the boomtowns like Virginia … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 8 – Mina and vicinity
The Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains is located in west-central Wyoming. The Continental Divide runs along the crest at elevations reaching 12,000 to 13,000 feet. Our base camp in Boulder, WY has an elevation of about 9500 ft. Four huge wilderness areas with a combined total of over 1 million acres, surround the … Continue reading Wind River Mountains
Tucson and the Sonoran desert territory surrounding it tell the tale of the West. Purchased from Mexico in the historic Gadsen Purchase of 1863, the frontier town hosted outlaws, gunfights, cowboys, and the Earps while fighting off stagecoach robberies and Apache attacks. A railroad and commercial center, Tucson was once the capital of the 48th … Continue reading Arizona: Tucson and vicinity
Yuma to Tombstone sounds like it should be a western movie about a stagecoach route. As we traveled between the two cities, it often felt like we were seeing the remnants of the wild wild west. The landscape is filled with Saguaro cactus and numerous desert plants making the Sonoran desert much more lush than … Continue reading Arizona: Yuma to Tombstone
Mark Twain once said, “Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.” After staying in Quartzsite, exploring the Mohave and Sonoran Deserts, and hiking the trails through rock canyons, dry falls, sandy stream beds, and dusty washes, like Mark Twain, it was surprising how beautiful the … Continue reading Arizona: River and Refuge
The latest Quartzsite, AZ census lists the population at 2,413. But during the month of January, that number swells to over 1 million people! Arriving in RVs, motorhomes, vans, bicycles, cars, even on foot with backpacks and tents, the little desert town’s accommodations burst at the seams and overflow onto the BLM (Bureau of Land … Continue reading Quartzsite, AZ – “The Rock Capital of the World”
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