Author: The Buffalo

Not aliens

We came to Devils Tower for the aliens. We stayed for the hail. Monday the local Devils Tower area was hit by a “supercell microburst,” a funnel cloud that formed but did not touch down. Monday, August 19, 2024, 5:30pm. Scott is in the living room and calls for me to come out and take […]

Missoula

It’s hard to believe we are halfway through summer, but thank goodness we are because it feels like we’ve been trying to escape the 90 degree temps since February. I’m not exaggerating much. Last summer we bought a few temperature/humidity devices so we could track the temperatures in various places in this home-on-wheels. We placed […]

Lava: æ or a

As Scott mentioned last week, we were looking at some properties around Lava Hot Springs (which the locals pronounce Læva (like cat) not Lava (like aww)), a cute touristy town in good location for things we want to have access to. There were two different properties on our short list, both with some views of […]

Ecosystems

One of the things I’ve been most excited about on this trip are all the new ecosystems we get to explore! We’ve seen many through our visits to the parks, but we’ve also recently visited two other organizations. I cannot say enough about the Sonoran Desert Museum. It’s like a botanical garden, zoo, and museum […]

Repairs

Once we left Texas we headed to Tucson to get some repairs. Unfortunately we don’t really have photos of any of these things so I’ll try to paint pictures with words. The Hydraulics. First, you might remember a while ago (when we were in Carlsbad last year) we had some tire repairs, replaced the leaf […]

Making plans

When we started this journey we said we’d give it a year to decide if we like this lifestyle. Neither of us had ever slept in anything other than a popup or tent so weren’t quite sure if this space would suit us. It does. We’ve made tentative plans for our next couple of years […]