Month: May 2020

End of Travel Season – 2019

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Sunset at Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona

(Mid-Oct. to mid-Nov. 2019) This post is a brief summary of the end of our travel season for 2019. It seems we have been so preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic that we have put off many things – including blogging. Time now to try to catch up on the blog posts.

(May 25, 2020) First, a status update – Kim and I remain in good health and are sheltering in a campground in Iowa, near my sister and brother-in-law’s home – as noted in my recent post. Now, on to our 2019 Fall travels…

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Seeking Safe Harbor in a Time of Pandemic

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Lightning Strikes Near Wupatki - Flagstaff, Arizona - 2015

(early-March to early-May, 2020) Wow! When we started our journey we never would have imagined RVing during a global pandemic. What a difference a few weeks, let alone a few months, can make.

As of the 1st of March we were still living our “normal” RV life – wrapping up another winter in Southern California, busy planning our upcoming travel season, making campground reservations, and scheduling the last of our annual maintenance tasks. We were aware of the spreading COVID-19 epidemic, but it still seemed distant and not of immediate concern. How quaintly naive that seems, now.

Several weeks later, all of that had changed and we were making very different plans. By April 4th, we were back in rural Iowa and sheltering in place for the long-haul. Enough changes to make our heads spin and ask, “What just happened?”.

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