MikeCoke
Mike, Wendy & Gordon Joined: December 8th 2006
Logged in: January 2nd 2012
Logged in: January 2nd 2012
We currently travel in our 2004 Winnebago Sightseer 27C motorhome towing a 1973 VW Beetle. We use Dish Network for our TV and a MotoSat Datastorm F1 roof mount Internet Satellite system for our internet. I installed two 120 watt solar panels, four 6 volt Golf cart batteries and a 2000 watt inverter for when we go boondocking. We like visiting and camping in National Park areas, Forest Service, BLM, State Parks and just staying out in the boonies.
Travel Blog Posts
Sunset from San Elijo Camp Site
Fri. Dec. 9 Wrapped Christmas presents then boxed them up to send to the family. Drove into Borrego Springs and got the packages shipped. Stopped at Las Jilbertos Mexican restaurant for a late lunch....good food and cheap. On the way back to camp we stopped and let Gordon have a romp in the desert. Sat. Dec. 10 Decided to drive into Salton Ciry to Geocache. Before we started hunting for the caches we drove to Red Earth Casino for lunch and to gas up. Found 8 caches, all named for Navy ranks, with lots more to find on our next visit. The last cache we found, The Admiral, was off the paved roads nad it took three tries to find the right route to it. Gordon enjoyed the day since he got to run free when ... read more
Julian Jail
The above Pic is where we stopped to play ball with Gordon. Fri. Dec. 2 First thing we did was drive into town to the Farmers Market at Christmas Circle where Wendy bought some produce...fingerling yellow potatoes, big beautiful tomatoes that taste like tomatoes, oranges, cucumbers. After all was put away, Wendy decided we needed apple pie so we drove to Julian stopping on the way to find some Geocaches. In Julian we had lunch at Miners Diner, big tasty chicken fingers and fries, then found more Geocaches in and around Julian. Before heading home we stopped at The Julian Pie Co. and picked up a nice Dutch Apple Pie. Julian is a neat town with cute shops, restaurants, an old jail, lots of history, and, of course, great pie. We got back to camp and ... read more
Mon. Nov. 21 Out Geocaching today. The first stop was to put a new log in a cache that neeed a new one then over to Pegleg Smith to find the cache there. Lots of folks boondocking there, at least 2 dozen. Then we drove over to Ocotillo Wells OHV area for a few Geocaches there. Found 6 today. Headed home and got home about 3:30 pm, as the sun set behind the mountain...dark comes early here. Tues. Nov. 22 Drove into the Big City....Rancho Mirage. Our frist stop was Walmart to exchange the VWs radio for one that works. Had lunch at Red Robin, sharing a Free Chicken Quesadellia appetizer and a Whiskey River Chicken Sandwich. Then we headed over to the Regal Theater to see Happy Feet 2 in 3D. On the way back ... read more
Sat. Nov. 26 We went out to place our own Geocache at the new Jeep metal sculpture. We named the new cache "GM Jeep" since it was placed on the Galleto Meadows Jeep. Placing the cache was hard work so we stopped in town for ice cream. We bought a double scoop in a cup with a waffle cone on the side to share and ate it on the patio with Gordon sharing. Finally got the Weber Q grill out and grilled fresh tuna steaks for dinner. Sun. Nov. 27 Had to move to another site for the next 2 weeks. Wanted to get moved and setup before the San Diego - Broncos game started. The folks who were in the spot we were supposed to move to farted around until the noon checkout time so ... read more
SeaSerpent1
Tue. Nov. 15 Sat around camp until after lunch then we headed out to find a few Geocaches. The first one was an interesting place, an old 50s resort, but it was a "did not find" for the cache. We took the long way back to camp and stumbled on the newest Sky Art Sculpture, a very large Sea Serpent, swimming throught the desert and under the road. After that we stopped for another Geocacheat the Borrego Gomphotherium Sculpture and found this one. Then back to camp. Wed. Nov. 16 Today I removed one of the bedroom window shades because the string had broken. While in the Phoenix area I bought the string needed to restring it. When I got it apart I noticed the spring was streached out so we made a run into town ... read more
Galleta Meadows Gompotherme Sculpture
Mon. Nov. 14, 2011 Today was a long day and drive, headed to Anza Borrego State Park Campground. First stop was at the Phoenix Flying J for gas and propane. What a Zoo !! The place was packed. We waited in line and were able to get gas but could not get propane (in the wrong lane), so we headed west on I-10. Next stop was the Flying J in Ehrenberg to fillup and get the Propane we were not able to get in Phoenix, but the guy came out and said sorry but he couldn’t do motorhomes, only bottles. If we wanted to wait, the person that could do motorhomes would be in at 4:30. I said no thanks that is 2 1/2 hours from now. Filled up with gas since it was a lot ... read more
Famous Daves
Sat. Nov. 12, 2011 We moved over to the Scottsdale Elks Lodge camp sites. They have 8 sites for Elks to use $15 a night. Our first Elks campsite but not our last. After we got set up we drove the VW to do some shopping. Wow, the shopping you have in a big city ! Sun. Nov. 13, 2011 Had planned to go to a VW Show and swap but I blew it and we arrived after it was over and there were just a few VWs there. After that we did a few Geocaches and took Gordon to a Dog Park to play. Gordon had a great time at the dog park and didn’t care that we missed the VWs. On the way back to camp, we stopped at Walmart and bought a new ... read more
Wed. Nov. 9, 2011 After spending several days packing the motorhome and getting things done around the house, we were ready to leave for our winter travels. Got on the road at 1:35 a lot later than Wendy wanted but so it goes. Our first stop was "11 Lucky Miles South" in Towaoc to gas up Winnie so we could make it to Flagstaff. Paid $3.42 a gallon. Stopped for the night at the entrance to Wupaki National Monument about 236 miles from home. It’s a nice overnight stop and we’ve spent many nights there on the way to and from home. Thurs. Nov. 10, 2011 Next stop was Safeway in Flagstaff for Gas. Paid $3.33 a gallon. After getting gas we stopped at Staples to get ink for the printer and then had lunch at ... read more
