I wasn't sure I was going to like this state park, but the scenery is great! I really enjoyed my stay here, but I sure was missing trees for shade. And the internet - there's basically no sign...
For some reason, the Rio Grande River is very muddy at this point. This area has a campground that's spacious and is miles from civilization. It looks like the river is low at this...
This is a great scene not too far from where I was camped. During the weekend, this area is packed with tents, trailers and lots of people. I love the water and there are so many p...
City of Rocks is an amazing area that was created by a volcano centuries ago. The area surrounding the rocks is a flat meadow area. All the rocks are amazingly unique, I love the ones with...
A former sailor buys an RV and travels west for adventure.
If you're headed to Bryce Canyon National Park from the west, you will pass through the Red Canyon. Before you get to the Red Canyon, you're driving through nice green meadows with patches of tr...
Sometime way back about 40 million years ago, there was a volcanic eruption in area of the southwest corner of what is now New Mexico. This was the first step in producing what is now called th...
Ospreys are in the southwest as well as places like Florida - I was surprised to find them here. I found a nest that I was able to photograph, after waiting patiently. She then "flew the coo...
Mornings are pretty here and I have been out taking hikes in different areas of the lake. This is a white pelican and he has black on his wings that you only see when he's flying. I have mad...
Sugarite Canyon State Park is outside the town of Raton in northeast New Mexico. It's really not that far out, but worlds away from the interstate and the town. It's a canyon, which means on ea...
This is Clayton Lake, and to the right are what's left of old cottonwood trees that were alive before they started building the dam. This is the type of land that I drove by to get to...
Palo Duro Canyon has been compared to the Grand Canyon by some people. The big difference is that you're down among the rock formations, instead of standing on the rim. There isn't really a rim...
This was my first glimpse of Convict Lake in California. Supposedly, the name was given to this lake when convicts were found hiding in the area. Unfortunately, the weather was not c...
On the way to the Cathedral Gorge State Park I passed a road that takes travelers to an overlook. As far as I know, it is outside the state park, but impressive. This area is just south of Pio...
Most BLM campgrounds are wonderful, this was in the middle of almost nowhere, right off Route 50 in Nevada. And it is free! The little pond makes it interesting and that's my 5th wheel just bey...
This is the only sign I have seen for this highway, although it is marked as such on both my maps. There are no gas stations for many miles in either direction. When I turned onto this road, t...
From Nevada, I landed in Nephi, Utah. There is a great scenic drive nearby, these are some of the sights I saw on the trip around. Below is the Devil's Kitchen - you have to walk down a short t...
On one of my morning hikes, I noticed a few deer in the distance and as I kept sneaking up on them, noticed this one just sitting calmly among the others. I kept sneaking up on her, taking phot...
Antelope! They seem to wander around near the train tracks in this little community. They were a little shy, but they did pose long enough for me to get this shot. This hotel has seen it's best...
This is a very small area of the Strawberry Reservoir. For those who are curious, I never saw any strawberries growing around here. There are 7 campgrounds scattered around this part of the la...
This is my view of some of my neighbors after a storm that included 3 episodes of hail and lots of rain. The storm lasted until late in the evening, but even before that, my site was full of mu...
Soldier Creek Campground belongs to the Forest Service, it is part of the Strawberry Reservoir but it took about 12 miles to get to the this side. It's a very nice campground, and I had a really s...
From Nevada, I landed in Nephi, Utah. There is a great scenic drive nearby, these are some of the sights I saw on the trip around. Below is the Devil's Kitchen - you have to walk down a short t...
Ely is proud of their murals, there are quite a few. The one above shows the railroad being built and the one below shows the Ward Charcoal Ovens, located just outside the town about 10 miles. Th...
Bureau of Land Management does a great job with campgrounds. This one is easy to find, just a mile or so off Route 50, which claims to be the "loneliest road in America". The campgro...
Pioche is a very small town, no stop lights, no grocery store and very little traffic. But, they appreciate RV people so much that they have set aside a free campground for them, even though th...
This is where I spent the Labor Day holiday weekend. It was a nice quiet park with prairies all around. This next shot is my campsite, actually only half of it because it was so shaded at that...
Tuttle Creek is a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) campground about 5 miles from Lone Pine on Route 395 in California. It's a nice campground, but the spots are not very spacious and the two I tr...
Sawtooth Canyon Campground | BLM | Barstow | California This was my campsite at Sawtooth Campground, a BLM camp as well as a destinatio...
This is a small campground right off Route 395 in the Eastern Sierra Mountains in California. Volcanic rock and typical desert flora make up the scenery, as well as the mountains off in the dist...
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This was a very scenic campground, snow dusting all the mountains. Another nice BLM campground, but at least when I was there, not many campers. Snow was all over the mountain peaks, but d...
This was my view at Storrie Lake State Park. It was a nice view - most of the time...... I'll come back to that later. While I was exploring the town, I found some interesting old buildings,...
McPhee Reservoir, Colorado I wish I could say that the above photo was the scene out my window, but it's only a short walk away. I've bee...
This photo, and the one below, are my views where I've been staying in Moab. It's on BLM land, no hookups, but the scenery is spectacular. I have no idea how high this wall is, but it's across th...
Fruita, Utah - Capitol Reef National Park Back in the 1880s, a few Mormon settlers moved into the canyon in the area that is now the campg...
After a visit to Capitol Reef National Park and a short stopover in a little town off Interstate 70, I came back to Moab to relax before heading to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet up with a few ot...
I spent most of last summer exploring quite a few of the state parks in New Mexico. Leasburg Dam was one I missed, so I stopped here this year on my way through. This park is easy to find, very...
I came to Quartzsite because of a propane leak and I knew the RV season here would be ending and the fix-it guys would have time to deal with it. I made contact with one of them before I left Tu...
After some of the weather calmed down from the wind and rain, we had a few days of bright sunny days before more bad weather set in. Of course, I set out wandering around with my camera. I fou...
