After months and months of planning for our 3,718-mile Summer 2014 Adventure Tour, the departure day finally arrived! Packing an RV for a six-week trip is no easy task. Here is the fridge/freezer — not a square inch to spare! Individually portioned/pre-marinated meats in...
Our latest adventure in the Lucky Charm was to Flagstaff in Northern Arizona for the celebration of son Max’s 15th birthday. Our family rocked the Flagstaff Extreme Adventure Course! FlagX, as it is affectionately referred to by all the cool kids, is a series of aerial obstacles...
We left Bisbee (if you missed the first half of this trip, you can catch up here) and headed up the road 30 minutes to Tombstone, which is the site of the famous “Gunfight At The OK Corral.” I imagined a kind of tourists’ hell, with every stupid, overpriced...
Spring Break, 2014: The Lucky Charm was pointed to Southeastern Arizona to basically relive the 1860’s-1900’s through visits to Bisbee (mining history), Tombstone (western cowboy history), and Picacho Peak (Civil War re-enactment history). Tally-Ho!!!! View of town...
A rare long weekend without any commitments beckoned us to Patagonia Lake State Park in Southern Arizona, about 12 miles north of the Mexican border town of Nogales. This is a beautiful, remote region with hilly grassland topography and scenery like nothing else in Arizona! The 250...
It was only a matter of time before Philip’s two favorite things would be combined. No, not vodka and cranberry juice. No, not bicycling and texting. It’s the CARDINALS and the LUCKY CHARM! Philip and his buddy Jim Miller have had Cardinals tickets since...
While many might scoff at the idea of camping in an RV, these people also inevitably complain about back pain, insect bites, and critters eating their food in the night. At ages 46 and 59, camping in an RV is heaven … leave the “roughing it” to young adults in...
We were hopeful that our sole remaining child would like the RV and were relieved to find out that he did. So much, in fact, that this year for his 14th birthday party he wanted a sleepover in the RV in front of our house. We could literally hear the stereo bass thumping from...