Gold Ranch Casino & RV Resort, located in Verdi, NV, is not your typical casino-based RV park. It’s actually more like an RV Resort with its own casino, rather than a casino with an RV resort. That is, the casino is pretty small, and I would venture to guess that the RV resort brings...
May 8, 2017: We were told that the WalMart in Marana, AZ (this one at 8280 N Cortaro Rd) allows free parking for RVers. Well, that’s what we were told. Turns out that the City of Marana has an ordinance against sleeping overnight in vehicles in parking lots. Sash had called the WalMart manager...
May 8, 2017: Driving along I-10 through eastern Arizona is to be deluged with road sign after road sign advertising, “The Thing?” What is “The Thing?” It’s a basically some kind of mummy. It’s not a real body, but something made up to look like a real mummy… “The roadside area was the creation...
May 6, 2017: At the time, we found Alamogordo / White Sands KOA to be the cheapest KOA in New Mexico. That wasn’t the only reason we went there however; it also happened to be in the direction we were headed. Considering how impressed we were with the Kansas City East / Oak Grove...
May 5, 2017: After saying our goodbyes to Gabriele and Ken in Bristow, OK, Sash and I continued pushing west, taking us into the Texas Panhandle. We learned that the Texas Travel Information Center in Amarillo allowed free overnight parking for trucks and RVs, and that it got a lot of good reviews. So,...
May 5, 2017: After an overnight stay at the WalMart in Bristow, OK (which by the way is an awesome WalMart to overnight at, despite the many trucks that stay there), Sash and I headed into town to meetup with Gabriele and Ken, two friends of ours. Gabriele and Ken were in town for...
Sash and I finally got out of New Mexico and pulled into Liberal, Kansas. Kansas turns out to be quite a meat lover’s paradise. Even though Texas often is associated with the beef industry, those folks in the Sunflower State really like to dress up a slice of steer and introduce it a sizzling...
After a night in Tucumcari, NM, we left in the morning headed to north along the US-54 headed to Nara Visa, and then to Clayton. But there was trouble. The battery light on my truck came on, indicating something went awry with the battery (or alternator). I wasn’t ready to suspect the alternator because...
We left Tucson, AZ, the day after Easter Sunday, pushing further east towards our ultimate destination in Nappanee, IN. Today’s drive took us through, Tombstone, AZ, White Sands, NM, and the “world’s largest pistachio” just outside of Alamogordo, NM. Places mentioned in this video: Tombstone, AZ: Not many towns better exemplify the spirit of...
Tucson’s small-town feel with the amenities of a big city is why it continues to be the favored weekend destination for over its rival, Phoenix, to the north. Sash and I had always preferred the lighter crowds and the abundance of parking in the “Old Pueblo”, yet found that it offered enough creative and...