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Glad you enjoyed it. Marc and Buzz, Glad you enjoyed the post. It was a good trip and the camper was just right for us. Buzz, the ferry charges by length. We pay the same for the ferry with the camper on or off. I think we can even fit a boat on top without going over the height restrictions...

Gila Neat flicks Jay! Susan and I were hoping to see one when we were in your part of the country last winter but probably too cold then? Is it rare that they are out where they can be seen? Thanks, 'birds

The Ultimate Camper Seems like I remember a thread on what should go into the ultimate pop-up camper. I've done a couple searches and looked at a lot of the recent threads but no luck. Is my old brain just playing tricks on me (again) or is there a thread like that out there?

Just doin' pay back. Suni, Thanks for the good words. You and a lot of the other WTW folks have done a lot more and better posts that have provided a lot of joy and information/education over the last few years. We thought it would be nice to do some payback, and it's fun too (this one was...

Oak FYI: If you've got the darker colored oak wood like I do then Miniwax, "English Chestnut" stain is a pretty close match when used on oak stock/plywood. Close enough for a camper anyways. ;)... Pods8, Thanks for the stain information...it is a close match. (Nice work on the edge banding...

Photo Requirements TT, You're very welcome...it was a pleasure! I'm not sure we really fulfilled the photo requirements as well as would normally be expected though...Granted, a lot of pictures, but some of the spots we didn't get pictures of deserved coverage. Basalt was a great spot close...

Tucson oldnslow & chnlisle, Thanks for all the kind words and for sharing your beautiful part of the country with us. Like you said Jay, within an hour or two of where you live is some of the most interesting desert country I've ever seen, and a lot of it comes complete with water to play...

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh! Suni, Those are some spectacular views! Thanks. 'birds

Thanks and it won't happen again. Excellent pix and story and not so much as a phone call. Hmph Jay, Thanks for the good words. We'll make contact next time. Cheers! 'birds

We intended to stay the next two nights at Joshua Tree Monument but when we got to the visitors' center all the campgrounds were full. We had an unpleasant drive to downtown Anaheim and spent one bad night in an RV park that had seen better days (but not recently). Then we got lucky and found...

We had dinner under the Joshua Tree, watched the sunset, and crawled in our nest to listen to the coyotes. Life is good. After coffee in the morning, I decided I needed a real shower. I hadn’t had one since Pahrump, but I didn’t want to take the time to set up the outhouse. It didn’t look...

This prospect hole still had bracing in place that looked solid. This picture of the tailings pile from below also shows a lot of the cactus (cacti...I have a real problem with saying "cacti") and other "fauni" representative of this area. The Joshua Tree is the most impressive from a...

We ran down CA 190 to CA 127 and through Baker into the Mojave National Preserve. It was getting late so we found a dirt road off of 127 and followed it to a spot that turned out to be another of our favorites of the trip. The mine shack was at the base of the hill where the prospect holes...

The Pinion Pines in the area were used to make the charcoal but you couldn’t tell there’d been any logging from how it looks now. We stopped at Wildrose Campground on the way up, liked it, and decided to stay there that night even though it was chilly. Wildrose has 8 sites, pit toilet and...

We made Death Valley the next day before noon. After checking in at the visitor’s center we looked over the Sunset and Texas Springs campgrounds but all the good sites were tent only sites (Thought about pitching the backpack tent so we could stay but decided to find someplace less populated.)...

We stayed at Arch Rock Campground that night. Arch Rock Campground is named after, you guessed it, Arch Rock. Arch Rock Campground has pit toilets and no hookups and great isolated spots on the upper end. Another favorite spot. We stopped to fill the water tank next morning and there was...

After lunch we headed toward Overton Beach on Lake Meade but stopped on the way to check out Elephant Rock….not sure we would have known it was an elephant if the sign wasn’t there. Overton Beach was a disappointment. The campground was apparently closed for repair and the lake level was way...

The White Dome Trail (just over a mile loop) was a good spot to stretch our legs.

That night we wined a bit and had dinner watching the moon rise. Next day we checked out some of the rest of the park.

Darling Daughter’s college softball team was scheduled to play a tournament in Anaheim, CA, starting Tuesday, March 16. So, the next morning, Monday, March 9th, we started wandering that direction. When we got to LV we took Northshore Drive along Lake Mead to Valley of Fire State Park. The park...

The laundry at the S. end of LHC has Wi-Fi and is one of our favorite Laundromats, so we stopped and caught up on correspondence while we washed clothes, nice deal! That night we spent at the BLM area just north of LHC airport. We went about three miles off the main highway where we were out...

We made a stop at the “tanks and rockets” along the road back to AZ 95 and checked out this flower that R&R had spotted a few days before. Susan found it in one of our books (I can’t remember the name right now) and it said it’s not common and a lucky find.

The lower mill was built in 1877-8 of hand cut rhyolite stone from the local area. Riz and Tess hit their pace on the way back. Chnlisle did a trip report on their four day stay in the campground at Picacho and posted it at: http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1996 On...

It was a quiet area but there was even some big boat noise at Picacho. Several kayakers were pulling out at the upper ramp too. We did a short hike on the “Picacho Mills Historic Trail” and enjoyed the mining history and river views along the trail, as well as the exercise. This was the...

When we got back to R&R’s truck we took a drive to Picacho SRA. The trip in was washboard and about 18 miles long after we left pavement, but interesting (after we got past the dump). When we got to Picacho SRA there was a young lady fishing for sunfish and doing great. Her dad was...