Welcome to the New Road Pickle
It was about a year and a half ago that Sash and I announced we would be moving out of our comfy, luxurious, high rise apartment in downtown San Diego, selling or donating much of our “stuff”, and...
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Road Pickle Report: June 21, 2014
Our first full week in Bakersfield, CA is in the bag. Can’t say that it’s been inspiring, because Bakersfield is just, well, Bakersfield. But we did get to spend a lot of quality time catching up on...
View ArticleRoad Pickle 2015 is Officially Underway!
For the third year in a row, Sash and I today embarked on another year of motorcycle touring across the United States. This year around, we’re planning to stay within the Western USA. But we’re looking...
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San Diego, CA to Yuma, AZ: Feb 28, 2015
Rain was looming off the San Diego coast when Sash and I had finally packed everything on to our bikes. We were kinda in a race for time, trying to get out of town and on the road to Yuma before the...
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Yuma, AZ to Tucson, AZ: Feb 28, 2015
“Good morning! Good morning!” a cheerful, comical voice sang out in melody as Sash and I lay slumbering soundly in our hotel room, 7:00 o’clock in the morning. “What the fuck!” Sash yelled out, waking...
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Tucson to Bakersfield: March 30, 2015
Checked into our hotel in Bakersfield, CA on Monday, March 30, after spending nearly a month in Arizona. Spring time in the nation’s 48th state is a showcase of colors across the Sonoran Desert, with...
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Motorcycling in Bakersfield, CA: April 12, 2015
Bakersfield, CA has never been known as a tourist destination, let alone a place where motorcycle riders would see as a place to hang out in. Sash and I, on the other hand, were still able to make it...
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Bakersfield to Portland, April 26, 2015
Sash and I left Bakersfield, CA on April 13, embarking on the longest stretch of Road Pickle 2015, riding north along the Pacific Coast for 8 days with the ultimate destination of Portland, OR. We...
View ArticleStarting a New Adventure
After spending some 18 months in an apartment in San Diego, the time seems right for a new direction in our lives. Since the day Sash and I became a couple, we have never seemed able to stay in one...
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We’re Moving Into an Toy Hauler!
The video pretty much says it all. So, we wanted to move out of our apartment and get back on the road, live like vagabonds again. But we’re doing it differently than how we did it back in 2013-2015....
View ArticleHow Road Pickle Got Started
The origins of how Road Pickle started perhaps go back many years if you think about all the series of events that led into making the type of people that we are. But for argument’s sake, Sash and I...
View ArticleThe RV Life is Starting to Sink In
It was two months ago (April 7) that Sash and I left our apartment in San Diego for the RV life. Of course, the way my brain works, is that I don’t feel the magnitude of what I’m doing until well after...
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Travel is the Most Patriotic Thing an American Can Do
Sash chats with a couple of beer drinkers at a bar in Martinsville, VA, in the heart of NASCAR country. It seems so much effort is being spent these days arguing each other’s differences rather than...
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Setting Up a 4G LTE Antenna in our RV
When it comes to improving your 4G LTE signal, you have two choices: use an antenna, or use an amplifier. A 4G LTE antenna is not the same as an amplifying device such as those made by WeBoost,...
View ArticleSunbeam Lake RV Resort, Thanksgiving 2017
Sunbeam Lake RV Resort, which is located in Seeley, CA, just off Interstate 8, was the place Sash and I had chosen for a two-month stay to sit out of the rest of 2017. The price seemed right, $520.00...
View ArticleMore Fog Predicted for 2018
There’s an old saying in politics… Perception is 90% of reality. I looked back on 2017, not just my personal life, but everything I experienced in the places I visited, the people I met, even the...
View ArticleRunning Away From it All
At one point, Sash asked me why I wanted to move out of a building and live on the road. I answered that I liked the feeling of running away. Her response suggested she was puzzled, and went on to say...
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Why is it So Difficult to Find RV Parking in Denver?
The last few reviews of Cabela’s in Lone Tree, Colorado posted on FreeCampSites.net seemed to reflect the same sentiment across the greater Denver metro area, that RVing in the Mile High City is not...
View ArticleThe Problem With RV Parks Today
As of this writing it’s been 93 days since Sash and I last spent an evening in an RV Park. As full time RVers, we’ve made a commitment to not stay in them, and instead stay for free on BLM lands,...
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Boondocking on Private Property for Introverts
Late afternoon winds finally picked up, bringing with it a 15-degree (F) temperature drop from the low-90s that had lingered for much of the day. A dark grey loomed to the west. The smell of rain could...
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