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Peak Picacho: Gotta Hike Em All
When Carl’s delivered same day Betty service and the FamCamp at Davis Monthan was full, Eric went full on google, in search of hookup that would still let us visit the Desert Museum and Saguaro National Park as planned. Picacho Peak State Park is 36 miles northwest of Saguaro and home to 80 electric-only pads….
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The Ballad of Scurry and Plod
The last time we met up with Scurry and Plod, they were in Glacier National Park hiking Mt. Brown. They missed the summit, both banged up their bodies and they vowed to thoroughly evaluate vertical hike adventures before embarking on them in the future. If you don’t remember them, Eric is Scurry, the marmot that…
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Scurry and Plod Attempt Mt Brown
On the second anniversary of walking out of corporate America, we saw no better way to commemorate the event than with walking up 4,325 vertical feet in 5.4 miles and back down again on a whim. TLDR: It didn’t end well, but the memory of it is getting better with time. We honestly lost our…
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Looking Down On Angel’s Landing
After a camp day where heavy rain and wind made great accompaniment to reading, napping, and movies, we were charged up to climb to Zion’s highest point. While the trailhead doesn’t reveal the number of deaths on Zion’s most famous hike, the internet counts two in 2019 and 8 in the 100 year history of…
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Betty Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Pro rider climbing 4000 feet on I-8 through the lower Rockies in his yellow safety vest. Crazy, but I-8 is the least elevation for a bike route across those mountains and into the desert. GPS showed 60 miles to the first sign of civilization east of the pass – El Centro. An hour for us;…
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Viva Fortuna!
We’ve finally adjusted to west coast time, coffee at 6:30, dayplanning til 7:30, rewiring the electrical circuits by 8:30. Betty has a curious lighting design – a mix of undercounter and decorative fixture halogens, fluorescent industrials and incandescent spots. 18 lights in an 8×14 room. For most people, on and off works. For us, finding…
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Mission Accomplished
It never rains in California, but girl don’t they warn ya? When it pours, man, it pours. Winter rain has been falling on the southwest for the past week. Even YPG received a 1/4 inch which got the locals talking about the deluge. From pulling bikes on and off the rack to setting up camp…
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3:10 to Yuma
In the 2007 remake, Russell Crowe is a badass captured outlaw and Christian Bale is a small time rancher who agrees to escort Crowe on the 3:10 train to Yuma for trial. In the 2019 version, Eric is a badass RV driver and Sheri is a willing accomplice who are on an I-8, 3 hour…