by campskunk | Jul 1, 2019 | Campskunk, People & Places
This year we’re making a point of visiting inland California, in contrast to our usual dash to the Pacific Coast Highway, which we have done for six of our eight years of fulltiming, missing only the summer we spent at the Roadtrek factory helping build this...
by campskunk | Jun 15, 2019 | People & Places, Campskunk
Well this is exciting – as we have moved north up the eastern side of the Sierras past Yosemite, we have entered the Long Valley Caldera, the remnants of a supervolcano eruption 760,000 years ago that blanketed the entire region with pyroclastic flows and...
by campskunk | May 25, 2019 | Campskunk, People & Places
Whenever I get somewhere interesting in my travels, I start Googling around to look for information on the local situation in terms of history, geology, and whatnot. With the Internet at our disposal, there just isn’t much excuse for seeing places and not...
by campskunk | May 20, 2019 | Campskunk
We finally ended our month-long stay in New Mexico when faced with the prospect of multiple days of rain. Trouble was, it was also raining in Arizona, so we had to keep heading west across the Colorado Plateau in the on-and-off drizzle, past the meteor crater and...
by campskunk | May 10, 2019 | Campskunk, People & Places
We started out for the year in late March, which allowed us to take the more northerly I-40 route across the country instead of the southern border hugging I-10 route. We angled up through Texas, stopping in Crockett to locate the grave of my long-lost...
by campskunk | Apr 9, 2019 | DIY & Gadgets, Campskunk
I know many of you Roadtrek owners are feeling a bit apprehensive now that the company is no longer in business, worried about getting repairs done, but take heart. There’s a surprising amount of things you can puzzle out yourself and save big bucks on repairs....
by campskunk | Apr 7, 2019 | Campskunk
Over the holidays, I talked with my father about his family and early memories he had, and rummaged around online to find corroborating information to share with him. We got interested in his grandmother and whatever happened to her. His father and grandfather are...
by campskunk | Mar 17, 2019 | Campskunk, DIY & Gadgets
I tended to “accumulate” things as I swung by the factory periodically, and one of the things I got was a new set of seat upholstery for my two (and only) seats. A year ago I bought some aftermarket foam-backed cloth covers that go over the original seat...
