Category: Vanlife
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Travel & Technology – Hits & Misses
I thought it would be useful to enumerate some of the things that worked well and didn’t work well during this last trip. Here’s the first ‘hit and miss’ list. Technology hits: Data plans: We have two ATT phones on a cheap 4GB shared data plan with about 3GB rollover and a Verizon 8800L MiFi…
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Red Flag Days & Home
Because we wanted a few days to clean up and winterize the campervan before it got too cold in Minnesota, we decided to head for home. Our route took us northeast across Kansas & north through Missouri and Iowa. Unfortunately we picked some awfully windy days. We hit a three days of crosswinds (15-30 mph…
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Shortgrass Prairie, No Man’s Land
Northeast New Mexico is a vast area of shortgrass prairie. Towns are small and far apart. It’s sparsely populated, with cattle ranching the only obvious activity. The roads seem endless, grassland to the horizon. Moving east, we drove through the mixed rangeland and cropland of the western edge of ‘No Man’s Land’, the western Oklahoma…
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Lava Flows and Dinosaur Tracks
One of the ways I prep for trips is to use My Places in Google maps to keep lists of things we might want to see someday. Somewhere along the line I marked El Malpais National Monument. I don’t remember why – I only know that sometime in the last few years I thought it…
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Camping Style, A, B, C and T
We spent a few days on the bluff above the San Juan and at Gooseneck. The weather was good, the view was spectacular. It’s a place where you can find the whole gamut of camping styles, short of the backpackers. In a few days we saw high end A’s – the kind that cost more…
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From the Rio to the San Juan
Whatever New Mexico’s strategy is for maintaining highway 64 across northern New Mexico, it’s not working. I think our campervan got it’s suspension broken in though. Our route took us across the Rio Grande north of Taos to the San Juan river in the desert of southeast Utah. The easternmost leg was through flat, dry…
Michael Janke 