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Lynne Benjamin

Lynne Benjamin has been RVing since the early 1970s and calls herself a “most-timer” (as opposed to full-timer). Though she considers her RV her home, she does spend a couple of months a year in a condo.

Quartzsite
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Quartzsite after the shows and vendors

They say you can get anything you want in Quartzsite, but you have to wait until the vendors show up. Before that all you see is an outline of what’s coming.

Celia’s Rainbow Gardens
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Multifaceted Quartzsite

Quartzsite attracts a lot of interesting/different types, musicians, artists, as well as, some burned-out desert rats. Come show time, the populations explodes.

Desert palace
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Sun, sand and rocks

Even if geology isn’t your thing, approaching and driving through Death Valley gives you a sense of all the tremendous geological happenings throughout the ages.

Zion National Park.
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Reaching up to the gods

Check out these hikes and climbs in Zion National Park

Calico mines
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Beyond Laughlin

More than just casinos and bright lights—unique and unusual attractions surround Laughlin, Nevada

Rvers playing guitar together
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Snowbird connections

Some snowbirds (even in RVs) like to go to the same place and stay in the same park with the same people year after year.

Cactus
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Living in the desert

Exploring the desert can mean living in the desert. It’s not always easy to find your own comfort zone.

artisan creating loomwork
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Our road always leads to Yuma

Yuma is a winter destination for many RVers and snowbirds but for us it’s the place we go to restock, plan and re-energize for the next leg of our adventure.

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Call of the desert

“This is the setting for almost every old cowboy movie I’ve seen (Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, Shane)” was my thought the first time I encountered the desert.

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California, here we come!

We left Oregon in a flurry of rain, mist and fog—surprise!—but that did make for some incredible seas.

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Zion and home

We set up overlooking the Virgin River and our view was of an incredible red-streaked rock formation interspersed with cactus and desert brush.

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Arizona delights

Casa Grande was our first stop in Arizona. One of the fascinating things about RV travelling is that you continually find other RVers you have met along the way.

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Treasures in southern New Mexico

The history, archaeology, mix of cultures and people all contribute to making New Mexico a very special place. It is one of the most diverse and fascinating states in South-Western U.S.A.

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Texas has history

Lynne and Fred discover unique attractions, charming communities and rich history in Texas

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Stars fell on Alabama

After travelling through Tennessee and Georgia, the next leg of our journey led us to the Gulf Coast of Alabama.

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Chasing the changing leaves

We met some folks in Saint John, New Brunswick, who suggested that if we were going to Maine, we had to see Acadia National Park. We then had our next target destination.