Destination Unknown

After about a year on the road my brother asked me how many times I’ve been lost, my response was NONE …I can’t get lost because I really don’t know where I’m going! Last year after leaving Arizona, my friend Tim and I got ourselves into two interesting situations while traveling through Texas First situation, we parked our rigs on South Padre Island on the beach.  There was a full moon and heavy winds so we were expecting higher than normal tides but were assured by the rangers that we would be fine. The second night there Tim knocked on my door around 330am.  He said you better come out here. I stepped out the door into water…that was going under my rig. Oh boy!  We sat outside for a few minutes trying to decide if we should leave then or wait till sunrise. The tide was heading out so we decided to wait. The drive off the beach was an adventure as we were dodging the waves, logs, and other debris that had blown in over night. It wasn’t really funny at the time becau...

  I’ve had many awesome experiences while on the road. Several of these are very memorable because of the people I met and the time we shared together. ~ The first experience was on Sunday October 22, 2022, less than 2 weeks after starting my journey. I was in Alabama and found a place called Dismals Canyon that I was going to hike. It was a bit off my route and almost passed it up but I’m so glad I didn’t drive by it. While hiking the trails I came across a family and chatted with them for a few minutes. There was a side trail that led up to Pulpit Rock, and I mentioned to them I was going to head up there and they decided to join me. Pulpit Rock looked over a lot of the canyon with great views. The 5 of us sat and talked for a bit and as I was getting ready to leave they asked me if I would like to hang out a bit longer and share some bible readings and prayer time. Cool! The wife shared one of her favorite bible verses (John 1:1-5) and it was the same verse that we had stud...

Skydive Montreal South Shore is a Harvest Host location south of Montreal in Farnham, QC. I made a reservation for a night and planned on watching the skydivers while I was there. Before I arrived I decided, what the heck, I might as well jump. I had a few days to think about it and even though I’m am a little afraid of heights, I wasn’t scared of jumping. I watched a YouTube video of Will Smith talking about his first jump. He shared that he was crippled with fear the week leading up to his jump. He said he couldn’t sleep or eat because of that fear. The day of the jump he realized how foolish he had been to be afraid of something that wasn’t going to happen for a week and he had nothing to relate it too so why all the fear. The day of the jump and just before jumping he had no fear.  I didn’t let any fear enter my head and was excited about the jump. I showed up early to the jump site and was prepared mentally for the adventure ahead. I met my instructor and we joked around...

I rarely stay at campgrounds while I travel around the country, so where do I find places to stay? There are plenty of apps and websites that you can use to find places to stay as a full-time RVer.  My two favorites are iOverlander and Harvest Host . iOverlander is a free app that is full of information for nomads.  Where to stay, where to get water, where to dump your tanks, laundromats, Wifi, cell coverage information,RV service facilities, etc.  The users actually enter the information and share it with others on the app.  Users review the places like you would on Yelp or Google and you take it from there. Most of the time the places to stay on there are free or very inexpensive.  It’s a great place to find information on the area you are traveling in or through. Free is good! It’s been a great tool and is my ‘go to’ app for most of the information I need on the road.  I’ve only had one ‘issue’ when I used the app to find a place to stay....