Author: Janke
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Quartzsite, Arizona
Shortly after getting my first camper I started hearing about Quartzsite, a small town on the Arizona-California border where RV’ers spend the winter. I wasn’t sure why they came to Quartzsite so I asked Bing AI: Hi, this is Bing. I found some information about why RVers go to Quartzsite Arizona every winter. Quartzsite is…
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White Sand, Tularosa Basin
White Sands National Monument Park. A gigantic pile of white sand in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. The National Park Service says: In addition to containing the world’s largest gypsum dunefield, including gypsum hearthmounds found nowhere else on earth, the park is home to the globe’s largest collection of Ice-Age fossilized footprints and…
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On the road again
It’s still winter in Minnesota. We got over a foot of snow a late last week, followed by a blast of below zero temps. So picking a day to leave can be challenging. We like to leave when it’s above freezing for a couple of days. It’s much easier to de-winterize at home instead of…
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It was supposed to be simple
I have three USB-power devices stuck to my dash or windshield – a Garmin nav, an old phone I use as an OBD-II dashboard, and a dash cam. We also sometimes need to charge our cell phones while driving. Three plus two = five USB power cords hanging off two lighter sockets, both down by…
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Observations on Driving in Italy
“In Italy, all the drivers are experts. The rest are dead” When I first started driving in Italy (30 years ago) I was advised that the Italians drove by a strict set of rules, but those rules were not necessarily the same as the ones posted on signage or printed in drivers’ handbooks. For example…
Michael Janke 