~ By Vicky & Sumalee When I told a colleague about a contract job I was considering in Clear Lake, CA., she--like almost every Californian we spoke to--had a preternatural bias against Clear Lake. Upon hearing our plans, she paused and dropped her voice in concern: "have you  been there yet ?" That next weekend, S. and I reconnaissanced the lake and the RV parks nearby. I had also looked up a long-term stay RV park at Blue Lakes, so we also scouted it out. The Blue Lakes

~ By Vicky ~ 2024 was the kickstarter year of our truck camper adventures. We became the proud owners of a four-season, cozy, and highly capable truck camper that we aptly named The Roost, which perched atop our one-ton long bed truck we named Sanderling in honor of the hardy migratory shore bird whom we love to find dodging the swash and backwash along ocean shores. As campers who sought lesser-known forest roads on BLM land, we dreamed of a truck camper to expand our cam

~ by Sumalee ~ Last summer, V. and I hiked longer trails than typical for us. These were upward of eight miles, and we revisited these...

~ By Vicky ~ On our woodland birdwatching outings, we often spotted small nests woven into the branches of spindly trees, but the...