I spent 20 years in the US Navy and the most common thing I heard was “living the dream.” When you asked someone how they were doing, that was the most common response, living the dream. I have no idea what their dreams were like, but that wasn’t my dream. Now, living fulltime in my motorhome and traveling the country, for me, that’s living the dream.
So we have been living in our motorhome since the middle of July and so far, we are loving it. If you read my last post, then you are caught up until the last two weeks of August. Since then, we spent a few weeks in Camp Pendleton and then decided that it was time for a road trip. It was nice to spend some time in one place for a little while. I did get to go fishing almost every day, and I only got skunked one day. We met a lot of great people while we were there, as well.
Ok, time for a road trip. Nicole wanted to see something big to get things started. How about the Grand Canyon? Will that be big enough? I’m thinking it is. After we left Pendelton, we spent one night just outside of Barstow on a Marine Corps Base that I didn’t even know was there. I expect that I’ll be finding a lot of bases that I didn’t know about during our travels. After Barstow, we went to Las Vagas for two nights. We had a good time there and I might have spent a little too much money, but how much is too much anyway? Then, we went to Utah.
We are staying in Kanab, Utah for a week because there is so much to see in this area. Today we went to what they call Little Hollywood. Some of the early western movies were filled here. Because most of them were before our time, it really didn’t seem all that great to us. We also went to Moqui Cave. This place is interesting. This dude bought a cave back in the 40’s and put a bar and dance hall inside the cave. That’s pretty cool. His passion was really geology, archeology, and paleontology, the bar was just a fun way to earn money to pay the bills and pay for the digs and research that he loved so much.
Since we were already heading north, and I really wanted to check it out, we also drove up to a place called Duck Creek Village. Since we have been in Utah, “WOW!” has been the only way to describe what have been seeing. Duck Creek Village is no exception to that. The scenery was spectacular, to say the least. We ate at a little diner called Aunt Sue’s Chalet. The food was good, the price was ok, and the people were awesome. We are making another trip up there later this week because we are going to rent a UTV for a few hours and go ride some of the vast expanses of trails that they have there.
Below are some pictures from just today. It’s not all of the pictures that I took but I was having a lot of fun taking the pictures and even just seeing the things that I wanted pictures of. There were a few spots that I couldn’t capture with the camera and those spots are breathtaking. When you drive around some turns up in these mountains, you can very easily be blown away by the view that nature is offering.
We do have a lot more to do while we are here and I promise that I will write about them. Maybe some video or pictures. I’m not so good about getting videos posted but I’m going to work on that. So, until next time, keep living life and enjoying it. Try to take a few minutes each day to just stop and enjoy the view, or the quiet, because it really can make a difference in how you see the world. Thanks for reading.
