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Whitewater Draw and 20,000 cranes

In southern Arizona, near the small mining town of Bisbee, is a place called Whitewater Draw.  What we saw and heard there is a once in a lifetime experience.  This is the winter haven for up to...

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Ajo, AZ - Organ Pipe National Monument

Organ Pipe cactus There are four deserts which touch North America - the Chihuahuan, the Mojave, the Great Basin and my personal favorite, the GREEN Desert - the Sonoran. It receives less than 9...

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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - Part II - Safety

Road sign on Mexico Hwy 2 The sign above is in Sonoyta, Mexico and I am in the United States, less than 100 feet separates me from another country,  an often dangerous country.  That perception of...

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Denise Di Maio - an Italian citizen

In mid 2013 I decided to research my grandfather on Ancestry.com to see if I could verify any of the stories I had been told about him and to find out about the Di Maio (pronounced de mio) side of my...

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We're baaaccck

We've gotten a lot of questions about where we've been and why we haven't posted, but no worries, we are back.  We took a detour to Toledo, OH for about a month for a family medical issue and the great...

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Yuma, AZ and Algodones, MX

We had never been to Yuma before and you really have to see it to appreciate it.  It is a place of extremes - hot, dry and transient.  Nearly 90,000 snowbirds come for the winter and I think we saw...

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Cottonwood and Flagstaff, AZ

View of Humphreys Peak from Mitchell Lake We've continued to use Cottonwood, AZ as our "home base" and with our friends here it's a big draw for us.  Every time we're in the area we get a warm...

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Summer plans and an invitation - Yachats, OR

View of Yachats, OR from Cape Perpetua. Photo credit - Elizabeth Gates Before I talk about our plans for this coming summer, I have a correction to make to my last post.  I hate lists because as soon...

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Astronomy night in Lone Pine, CA

Astronomy at Tuttle Creek near Mt. Whitney, CA Lone Pine, CA sits in the shadow of Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48, and we had planned on being there for at least several days.  It is a...

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Cape Perpetua and the Central Oregon Coast

Thor's Well It has been difficult to buckle down and get the blog written so I apologize for such a long delay between posts.  This is a place that just grabs you and it is hard to sit inside and get...

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Where Has The Time Gone?

WOW, it seems that we just got here.  And now we are down to the last 3 weeks of our tenure here as Visitor Center Hosts at Cape Perpetua, Oregon for the US Forest Service.  We have made great friends...

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Bend, OR and RV trouble

 We left Cape Perpetua and it was an emotional departure.  We were truly honored to be chosen to volunteer there and loved the people, the place and our time there.  Sadly we must move on for now and...

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A New Room With A View

Last year when we started our blog we named it Room With A View rather than something with RV or Airstream.  We did this because we always knew we would travel and get a “Room With A View” whether or...

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First Week in Umbria

​Life in Umbria We have been here for a week and are having a wonderful time.  We’re getting used to the pace and rhythm of the town.  This post is a general discussion about how things are here.  It...

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Spello - from the 1st century BC

Named a Splendid Colony in the time of Caesar  Spello is one of those cities that just grabs you as soon as you enter its gates.  It is old, very old.  It was first populated by an ancient tribe...

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Italian Idiosyncrasies... or they do WHAT?

We have been in Italy a little less than 4 weeks now and there are a number of things we have noticed which the Italians do a little differently than done in the US.  Not that they are wrong, just...

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