Category: travel tips
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Leg 4: Southwest US Trip–Carlsbad Caverns
Carlsbad Caverns are jaw-droppingly spectacular. We’d seen pictures of course and knew that it was a big hole in the ground but I was still shocked by the scope of the Big Room and the otherworldly rock formations. I couldn’t stop shaking my head in amazement. It was…
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Leg 3: Southwest US Trip: Roswell, NM
11-25-2023 It was not a fun day of driving. We left Dodge City in the dark and snow at 6AM. It was not snowing at 4:45AM, but there was an inch or so on the ground by 6AM. The temperature was about 22F and it never got above freezing until…
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Moral of the Story: Do you have a “Before You Leave” checklist?
Leg 1: Thanksgiving & SW US Tour (Broomfield, CO to Superior, NE) November 2023 Night 1: Before you set out on the road, especially in the winter months, you really should execute an RV checklist before you depart. It is easier to make sure your propane heater and Wi-Fi…
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Nebraska Trip Day 4 and Return Trip in July 2022
We decided to tell this story in two parts, hence the delay between posts. When we first started traveling in Camper VanWilder, a lot of things were still closed (the marina at Lovewell Lake and a restaurant in Superior, NE to name just two things). We first made it to…
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Nebraska Trip–Days 2 and 3
We woke up to another day of wind and temps in the single digits. The wind chill was slightly below zero at sunrise. At 10AM the “real feel” temp was still only 3F. We moved the van from the RV park over to the McDonald’s on 3rd Street. The McDonald’s…
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DAY 1: Denver to Alliance, Nebraska
Ro, Sanni, and I left Broomfield at 11AM and headed north up I-25. We made a quick stop at Camping World in Longmont to get a water tank fill door key. We picked up a water pressure reducer, fill tank hose, and cassette toilet chemicals. It is with some trepidation…
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CamperVanWilder: Then and Now, an Origin Story
In November 2019, Ro ( @doggirl09 ) and I ( @DavidsTravelTales ) took a bucket list trip to New Zealand. Ro did a lot of research before we left. One of things she figured out was that traveling through New Zealand in a campervan was not only more affordable than…