Category Archives: 87-Not Travelling

87-Not Travelling, Uncategorized

The Anza Borrego Desert Superbloom of 2019

We were able to visit the Anza Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County in March 2019 while the “superbloom” was happening.

A superbloom in the desert happens when there is a wet winter. All the wildflowers in the desert bloom and it’s a spectacular display! The desert is usually shades of gray and dull green, but during a superbloom there are yellows, oranges, reds, purples everywhere! And lots of caterpillars and butterflies too! We have a couple of pictures showing the large black and yellow striped caterpillars and they have a long spike out their tail ends! Unfortunately the butterflies were too quick to get any good pictures of them.

We went on a Monday knowing that the weekend would be crazy with traffic. Even on a Monday in March the Anza Borrego area was pretty busy!

Jeff found a map provided online by the Anza Borrego Desert State Park that showed a few good areas to see the flowers. One was quite a ways down a dirt road but it was worth the trip!

Here are pictures we took of the area, the flowers and a couple showing the hillsides covered in yellow!

87-Not Travelling

New home – we bought a fifth wheel for more room and easier towing/hitching!

While staying in one place for several months, we had the opportunity to visit an RV dealership, and while browsing through the travel trailers and fifth wheels “just for the fun of it” we entered one that I just fell in love with immediately!

It’s a fifth-wheel with 3 slideouts which gives us WAY more room!  We thought hard about the expense for a couple of months, but then decided to purchase it and trade in our travel trailer that had been our home for over 3 years.

We LOVE IT!  More room, more storage, and some features that will be great when we’re travelling – like automatic levelers so I don’t have to have Jeff back into a space, get out the level, find it’s not level, have Jeff pull forward, put a board under wheels, have him back up again, check the level again, pull forward so I can add another board (sometimes), back up again, etc.  We just pull into the space, unhitch (which is also easier!) and press a button.  Voila!

Here are a few pictures of our new home before we loaded it with stuff: