2020 Travel So Far and Plans for the Year

We’re back on the road again – actually we never left. Since January 1, 2020 we have been to The Grand Canyon and Flagstaff in Arizona. We’ve visited Caliente, Ely, Elko, Winnemucca, Reno, Carson City, Tonopah, Hawthorne, Las Vegas, and other points in Nevada. We’ve traveled to San Diego, Buena Park, and Palm Springs California.

Later this week we will be heading north to San Francisco, Sacramento, and other points Northern California before heading back to Las Vegas to restock.

While we don’t expect the Coronavirus to impact our traveling, we are taking precautions and self isolating as much as we can. We’re eating in for every meal as most, if not all, sit down restaurants are closed in the areas we are visiting. We’ve got a well stocked camper.

Just a short update today.

Back on the road … Flagstaff

Feeling the itch to travel we decided to pop out to Flagstaff for the long weekend. Our first stop was in Kingman for an overnight, no great shakes there.

Our journey to Flagstaff on the other hand was a little more interesting as the weather turned colder and snow started to fall…

According to Sean driving in the snow wasn’t bad, but I’m sure glad he was the one behind the wheel at the time…

Once the weather cleared we headed to Sedona for a day trip and visited Slide Rock National Park.

Seeing as it was again cold, we enjoyed a fire before turning in for the night. Monday we make the trip back to Vegas.

Wind…

Today we have been fighting 27 mile per hour winds on Interstate 5 in California. Lots of cross winds on the highway means we’re taking it slowly and carefully.

We’re expecting to be at the campground around four this afternoon.

Week in review…

We departed Vegas a week ago for Mesa, AZ to attend a book selling event.

Arizona was nice, it was good to hang out with Damian and Apple as well as see people at the convention – but the convention itself was a bit lackluster compared to prior years…

Green Acres RV Park was nice, but tight. Every available space was filled.

We’re now in a lovely RV Park in Palm Springs, California bringing our trip to twenty-eight states visited so far.

Back on the road…

We’ve been back in Vegas for nine days and have cleaned and refilled the Airstream for travel again. Today we depart for Phoenix to attend a convention and hopefully sell some books. After that we’re heading up the pacific coast for my day job, then back to Vegas.

Once back in Vegas for a few days the travel continues, but by plane. While Sean will be heading to Minnesota, I’ll be heading to Boston. Then we both meet up for two weeks in Vegas as friends come to visit before heading out to Chicago in December.

It’s going to be a crazy couple of weeks.

Change of Plans…

Given that there is now snow falling in Denver and more on the mountains we’ve decided to change course and head south through Oklahoma and Texas to get back to Vegas.

Our plan is to get back to Vegas sometime in the middle of next week, do maintenance, and hit the road bound for Phoenix, Palm Springs, Fresno, Delano, and maybe some travel to Portland, OR…

Back on the road!

Or on the road again…

Today we left the Airstream Campus and made our way south to King’s Island for a day of roller coasters, fried food, and fun!

It was all of that and more.

After that it was time to hit the road, leave Ohio, and make camp just outside of Indianapolis. The KOA is amazingly nice!

Now to cook dinner and relax!

Airstream Factory Day One – Warranty Repair

So today we pulled into the Airstream Factory to have some fit and finish warranty work done. They did everything I asked them except for one vent and one window. We’ll have the local dealership tend to those when we get back.

The factory is huge!

We are staying in B2 – the red dot!

Tomorrow we are taking the Factor Tour to see what goes into building one of these units. I’m looking forward to it!

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