Sheep Bridge Road is part of the greater Hurricane Cliffs Recreation Area run by the Bureau of Land Management, located between State Highways 9 & 59, just south Virgin, UT. It offers perhaps the best free RV camping just outside of Zion National Park. There are officially 48 designated campsites along Sheep Bridge Road,...
Located along Dam Road, in Washington, Utah, is the famous, “License Plate Pole”. A tourist attraction for those who visit the City of St. George and surrounding areas, the License Plate Pole is stands 81 feet high (90 feet if you include the part that it’s anchored into the ground). The pole features license...
Cedar Pocket Road runs through the middle of Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness Area, a BLM managed section of land in the north west corner of Arizona, running along I-15 and the Virgin River Gorge. Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness Area is not open for camping, however, Cedar Pocket Road itself, along with several feet on...
Sash and I returned to Joshua Tree BLM South, a dispersed camping area on BLM land, just on the south side of Joshua Tree National Park. The first time we camped here, back in November 2018, we spent a few weeks enjoying the cooler weather and free camping. Back then, we also enjoyed relative...
Fantasy Springs Casino, located in Indio, CA, offers unlimited RV parking. Even though the entrance to the RV parking lot has a sign that forbids overnight parking, there’s dozens of RVs that park there long term. In fact, some of them look as if they’ve been there for months. The RV lot is all...
Yellow post campsites are unique to San Bernardino National Forest. Each campsite is limited to one camp only, which is defined as being no more than two vehicles and no more than eight persons. They are first-come-first-serve, and are marked by a yellow post along the roadway. You can stay at a yellow post...
Camping in the mountains, at 4,500 feet elevation, in January, is like an invitation for a freeze, yet the 10-day weather forecast said the lows would not see anything below 35 degrees F. Technically, not freezing. That’s saying something for Southern California. While the rest of the country was dealing with frozen rivers and...
This wasn’t your garden variety massage. It was a “chakra massage”, something that was supposed to realign the spiritual energy centers up and down my body and allow my brain and nervous system to realize full awareness and joy. It was like the Dalai Lama version of a chiropractic adjustment. “I’m pulling out all...
The Schwinn Stingray was the bicycle every boy wanted in 1971. I was no different. So when my mom and dad bought it for me for Christmas, I about blew up in excitement. Actually, I hadn’t yet learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. I was only 6 years old then. But...
Valley Fever is a health phenomenon unique to Bakersfield, CA and the surrounding Kern County area. It looks like Sash and I got it this time around. We started getting the usual symptoms of a cold after the first couple days of arriving here. We thought that we picked up a flu bug after...