Adventures in full time RV living

On March 1st 2019, the Scott family left the working world and our stationary home in Colorado. We’re now enjoying a mini-retirement, traveling the United States and Canada full time in our Coachmen Leprechaun 21QB Class C RV. We plan to continue the adventure until we run out of money or patience. Along the way we’ll be using this blog to document our adventures, review gear, provide tech tips, and hopefully some entertainment.

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Recent Blog Posts

Chasing the Sun Deeper Down South – South Carolina and Georgia

November 28, 2019/

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Temporary Tarheels – Notes From Our RV Travels in North Carolina

October 27, 2019/

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Scotts Down South – Kentucky and Tennessee by way of Indiana and Ohio

October 13, 2019/

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📍New Mexico

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Alamogordo, NM has a small zoo in the center of town. It's inexpensive to visit and has a nice playground for the kiddos. You can walk right under a lounging mountain lion and view the beautiful endangered Mexican Gray Wolf. We especially enjoyed watching the young, rambunctious Capuchins and curious Lemurs as well as feeding the ducks. 🦆

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Today we made our 3rd trip to White Sands in the past year. It's one of our favorite places we've been on this journey, and today was perfect weather. 👌
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A few weeks ago I listed some tips for White Sands, here are some more tips for your visit:
➡️Check if your RV park has sleds to borrow. The Alamogordo KOA does. 👍
➡️ The Dunes Life Nature Trail is your best chance to see wildlife as it sits at the edge of the dunes and has more vegetation. The trail is one mile and pretty easy, however we didn't see any animals. 🌳
➡️The visitor center does have some RV parking, however some passenger cars also park in those spaces if it's busy. If you are in a car, consider parking in the lot right behind the visitor center (no RVs allowed in this lot). 🚙
➡️ After the pavement ends, the sand is pretty well packed, but can be rough with potholes. We do see motorhomes driving the whole loop all the time, so just take it slow. 🚌
➡️ Our favorite place to set up shop is the Yucca Picnic Area on the west side of the loop. There is an outhouse, picnic shelters and taller dunes for sledding just west of the parking lot. If you walk even further west, you can find some dunes without tracks for the best photography (just be sure to keep track of where you are to not get lost).📷
➡️ Dogs are allowed in the park and on the dunes but please pick up after your furry friend. We encountered a lot of 💩 around today. 😝
➡️ And this is a repeat from last time, but be sure to bring lots of water, sunscreen, sunglasses and snacks/lunch, and have a blast! 😎
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If you are in Alamogordo, NM for White Sands National Park and looking for some other things to do, swing by the Museum of Space History/International Space Hall of Fame. 👨‍🚀 This place has lots of cool things---moon rock, lots of rockets & parts, a shuttle landing simulator, a Star Trek exhibit, astronaut dress-up, a playground, a hiking trail, a space chimp exhibit and the world's only Gordodon fossil! What a fun afternoon! 🚀
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After a few weeks back in Colorado & Minnesota catching up with family, friends and chores, we are back on the road. 🚌 We sure missed our tiny home and can't wait to see more of our great country! 🇺🇲
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We are still on our holiday break from the road, now visiting family in Minnesota. Back in July, I photographed this old farmhouse where my grandma's cousin used to live, and I imagined how difficult life would have been here many years ago. Now at dusk, with a brisk wind blowing and more than a foot of snow on the ground, the early settlers' lifestyle seems especially daunting. 😲
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The 4th photo is a gravel pit not far away. Doesn't it look pretty blanketed in snow? ❄️ And yes, it was as cold out there as it looks. 🥶

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So grateful for an amazing 2019! 💕 Can't wait to see what 2020 brings! 😁 Wishing you a very happy New Year! 🎉
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Most liked photos (in no particular order):
1. Quartzsite, AZ
2. Amboy Crater, CA
3. Alamogordo, NM
4. Glacier National Park, MT
5. Death Valley National Park, CA
6. Yosemite National Park, CA
7. White Sands National Park, NM
8. Shoshone Falls, ID
9. Glacier National Park, MT .
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Each year since my kids have been born, I've taken family photos for our Christmas card. This year, instead of the usual local park, we did them in America's newest national park, White Sands! It looks sort of winter-y, right?! Since I am not mailing cards this year, this e-version will have to do. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!! 🎄
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We're on our way to Colorado for a few weeks to spend the holidays with our family and friends. 💕 We'll be back to RVing in January---hope to see you on the road in the new year! 🎊

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White Sands was our first experience on our RV journey back in March. Today we closed the loop and visited this wonderful place again. The boys were so excited, and the second visit was as fun as the first! It was a bit comforting to come back to a place we've loved before. 💓
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Tip for White Sands:👇
1. Buy your sled(s) at the gift shop behind the visitor center before you enter the park. 🛷

2. Bring lots of water. Climbing dunes is hard work, and there is no water past the visitor center. 💧

3. Bring lunch. They have lots of picnic tables and outhouses, so plan to spend most of the day. 🧺

4. Bring sunglasses. The white dunes are bright, and glasses help keep the sand out of your eyes. 😎

5. Bring hats, gloves and jackets in the cooler months. Even though you are in sand dunes, the breeze (and sand) can be chilly. ☀️
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6. There are no campgrounds at the monument. Plan to camp in nearby Alamogordo. 🚌
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7. The monument and/or road to it can close for nearby military exercises. Check park website for planned closures. 🚀
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Our Harvest Host stay outside El Paso was near the El Paso Missions Trail, so I did a quick trip to the three historic missions in the area (sans kiddos). ⛪
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"Unlike similar Spanish colonial era missions in the United States, El Paso’s missions have functioned as the religious and social centers of their communities virtually uninterrupted since their founding in the 17th and 18th centuries making them the oldest settled areas of El Paso and one of the oldest settlements in the United States." The original buildings have been damaged by flooding from the Rio Grande and/or fires, but have been rebuilt to serve their communities. ⛪
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Socorro Mission (Pics 1-3) has an especially interesting interior, with painted decorated beams reused from the older mission structures.⛪
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Ysleta Mission (Pics 4-6), located on the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, is recognized as the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas. ⛪
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Presidio Chapel of San Elceario (Pics 7-10) was built in 1877 at the same place where an earlier Mexican chapel stood. The building is located in the central square of San Elizario. There is a free museum about San Elizario in an old home next door in the square. ⛪

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