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How to Drive a Motor Home

by Brian on January 20, 2012 in How To, Planning and Prep, RVing, Travel

The fear of driving a motor home prevents many people from even attempting a life on the road. Motor homes are big, and tall, and long and sluggish. Stepping into the driver’s seat for the first time can be a terrifying experience. Believe me, I know. It doesn’t have to be.

Of all the reasons people give us for not RVing, fear of driving one is the easiest to overcome. If you know how to drive an automobile then you already have all the skills needed to drive a modern motor home. Making the transition only requires a few adjustments, most of which you can practice in the car you drive now.

White Sands National Monument

by Brian on January 18, 2012 in New Mexico, Travel, United States

Easily mistaken for snow, these brilliantly white rolling drifts are actually the world’s largest gypsum dunefield.

The 275 square mile New Mexico desert, known as White Sands National Monument, is a remarkable place both for its beauty and its improbability. Gypsum dissolves in water and normally is washed out to sea before it can grow into such large dunes. In White Sands, however, gypsum washed down from the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains remains trapped in the Tularosa Basin, where it accumulates into a snow white desert.

Photo of the day: Pikes Peak

by Brian on January 16, 2012 in Photo of the Day, Travel, United States

Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado framed in golden aspen.

Santa Fe for Sale

by Brian on January 13, 2012 in New Mexico, Travel, United States

Santa Fe, New Mexico may not literally be for sale, but it sure seems as if everything else in town is. The downtown Plaza, listed as a National Historic Landmark, struck us as a giant adobe shopping mall. Street front stores sell everything from tourist memorabilia to art. Nearby passageways open to larger interior malls with even more retail options. Outside, street merchants pedal crafts and Native American jewelry. Santa Fe is a shopper’s paradise. Fortunately for us, though, there is plenty more to see and do in New Mexico’s state capitol.

How to Travel as a Couple Without Killing Each Other

by Brian on January 11, 2012 in Backpacking, How To, Lifestyle, Planning and Prep, RVing, Travel, Travel Tips

Happily traveling together fulltime for 20 months and counting

“And you’re still married?”

It’s by far the most common reaction we get after telling people we’ve been traveling together for nearly two years. More interesting, apparently, than our favorite destination or even how we’re able to travel for so long is how we’ve refrained from murdering each other.

The frequency of this question reveals a lot about the state of our relationships; which is also where the answers begin.