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Our New House

It was brought to my attention that we haven’t updated our Blog since 2013. Since we have become stagnant and haven’t really traveled for a while I didn’t have much of interest to post. Not that our life isn’t interesting, there just isn’t much RV Travel going on.

Well recently we have turned another page in our lives. We decided since we like our lifestyle so much that buying a house wasn’t in our plans. However we have pretty much outgrown the RV so…

We bought a Park Model home in the same resort where we have lived for the last 11 years in the motor home. If you are not familiar with a Park Model, it is a small 400 square foot manufactured home. Ours however is a bit more than a simple park model. First off ours is set in the ground so it is ground level, then a 200 square foot addition was added making it 600 square foot overall and the whole thing is stuccoed and the roof is tiled. There is also a 117 square foot building on the property, which serves as a laundry room and a shop. This building is attached to the house by a covered patio with outdoor kitchen. Along with the real residential appliances they topped it off with an air conditioner that can turn the house into a meat locker in the 120-degree Arizona summers. You can see more photos by clicking on the link in the left column.

I have added a link to the photos of our house HERE.

So, although we are keeping the motor home, it looks like we are not Fulltimers anymore.

Best wishes to all our readers and I hope your travels are as enjoyable as ours.

I will leave the Blog up because I know others enjoy reading about our travels.

Monday, February 21, 2005

Bisbee AZ


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Bisbee is a mining town south of tombstone. It was at one time one of the biggest cities between St Louis and San Francisco. While we were there we got a chance to take a mine tour into the
Queen Mine. They dress you up in the yellow mining slickers with hard hat and lantern before boarding an actual train that carried the miners down into the mine. The tour guide says it took years to do the work that can be done in about 90 minutes now a days. There is still a lot of capper in the mine but the price of copper has dropped to the point that it is not worth mining.


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Also we visited an open pit mine that is so huge it doesn't fit in one picture.


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In Bisbee there is the Shady Dell. This is a trailer park where the owner acquired a number of vintage trailers and restored them to original condition and now rents them to visitors. In the middle is a 1947 Chris Craft yacht restored with it's own dock.


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Next to the Shady Dell is Dot's Diner. This 10 stool diner was built in 1957 and located in Los Angeles and later moved to it's present location.

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