Author: redneckferrari_ilnv7a
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White Sands to Guadalupe Mountains National Park – SKETCHED OUT
4k Miles. 6 States. 7 National Parks. 16 Days in a Van – Leg 3 Checkout the previous leg of this maurauding march here: Leg 3 Travel Map – 207 miles Every National Park is worth visiting? I’ve now been to 29 national parks. Up until my most recent road trip, I had a saying:…
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Tucson AZ to White Sands National Park – Tired Trepidation
4k Miles. 6 States. 7 National Parks. 16 Days in a Van – Leg 2 Check out the previous leg of this journey: Leg 2 Travel Map – 454 miles Lordsburg KOA – A Flat-Out Dash Through the Desert It was supposed to be a short, uneventful two-hour cruise down Interstate 10 from Saguaro National…
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Sprinter Gas Tank Upgrade is a GAME CHANGER
Van Upgrades: 40-Gallon Fuel Tank I’ve had the van for almost 7 years and have done a fair amount of upgrades. I’ll write about many of them here in my blog—from the inexpensive to the not-so-inexpensive. Did they matter? Would I do it again? I’ll try to answer those things. I wish I had the…
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Zero to Sixty (Degrees): Truckee Delays, Desert Dreams
From Truckee to the desert and back again — solo, slow, and semi-scrappy. 4,000 Miles. 6 States. 7 National Parks. 16 Days in a Van. When I started this trip, I didn’t have a real destination — just a general sense that I wanted to see new corners of Arizona and New Mexico. I’d already…
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LA to Saguaro National Park – Greed Speed
4k Miles. 6 States. 7 National Parks. 16 Days in a Van – Leg 1 “a dense forest of towering saguaros reaching their arms skyward, interspersed with a tapestry of other desert flora” Check out the start of this journey: Leg 1 Travel Map – 955 miles A very late start… I started out in…