I finally took my first baby step on the tenuous road to my winter travels, driving 70 miles to Colorado Springs and dropping anchor in the Bass Pro Shop parking lot, where I will spend the night and convert my camper’s electric system back to a boondocking-ready 12-volt-only setup.
I don't remember ever having this many false starts trying to get on the highway south, but such is life on the road; sometimes the road is smooth with no speed bumps in sight, and other times the potholes could swallow a Volkswagen. But after endless Volkswagens were swallowed, it seems I'm finally heading to where the sun shines all day, and there is nary a cloud in the sky to block those tasty sunrays I thrive on.... Could that be wishful thinking? Maybe.
My travel plans this year are very similar to last year's travel plans... Go someplace where I'm happy, and when I'm no longer happy, go someplace else. I have found these plans work best for my serendipitous lifestyle and make it easy to follow my travel motto of... The only place better than where I'm at is where I'm gonna be.
But for this lifestyle to work as well as it does for me, it requires dealing with a certain amount of challenge, and I consider challenge a good thing. Things were a bit more difficult for me when I was first starting out on the full-timing highway, because I didn't know what places would make me happy. So I had to do a lot of experimenting with different places to find some I liked and some I didn't, but now that I've spent about 12 years full-timing in various RVs, I have numerous places I enjoy staying, with plenty of nearby backups, so I no longer have to spend a night or two at a place just to see if I enjoy it. So the places you read about in this blog are places I go all the time because they're all my favorites.
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Hopefully, these will be the last pictures from last year that I have to show.