After camping near a shipwreck, we made our way towards Kalamata for a couple reasons. One is to figure out if taking a ferry to the island of Crete is feasible by visiting a ticket office in Gythios and another is to meet up with our traveling friends. We ended Read more…
As we continued our journey around the Peloponnese, Greece, we knew for sure that we wanted to camp near a shipwreck we heard about. And as luck would have it, we found an open spot near the sea and a double rainbow as well. Until recent years many villages on Read more…
After two weeks in Paris, we are back in Greece. Our van was parked at a longterm airport parking lot while we were away exploring with our friends. Bags put down and we had to immediately check on the puppy dogs here. Thanks for protecting our little home while we Read more…
We rushed to Athens from Turkey because we had 2 weeks planned with our friends visiting from the US in Paris. We made good time and got to spend a couple of extra days before the flight and lucked out with warm temps and fewer crowds. But after spending time Read more…
After an awesome couple weeks in Turkey, we returned to Greece. Why such a short visit? Well, we had already planned to meet our college friends in Paris during their spring break and had roundtrip tickets flying out of Athens. So we stopped by the little town where our favorite Read more…
On one of our mornings at our wild camping spot in Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey, we woke up to neighbors who also cleared the sharp decline to this spot on the cliff. We got to chatting and immediately hit it off. They are a Romanian family that built out their fire Read more…
The drive into Istanbul was hectic and we were glad to find this spot Bundled up and ready to explore the city the next morning. Looks like an early soccer game at our camp spot today. Greeted by a cat as soon as we leave our camp spot. We didn’t Read more…
Do Greek pugs like scrambled eggs? YES or NO? Ummm, YES! Yes they do. Or at least this one did. And Greek cats? They prefer kibbles from Yoda. Time to head up the mountain to check out the rock formations from up top and to see what these monasteries are Read more…
I have been asked many times about tips and tricks to boondocking. How do we keep batteries charged? How to minimized our water usage and where do we fill and dump our water tanks? All that and more is discussed in a new page I created for this blog. It Read more…
Towing an Airstream is not a simple task. It can weigh literally tons and the tow vehicle is the difference between a dream and a nightmare while you are on the road. For years I have always wanted a camper van. Having been a surfer for most of my life, I dreamed about road trips in my van with my buddies, packed full of camping gear and surfboards, exploring the coast of Baja Mexico for years on end. Well, Baja Mexico is no longer the paradise it once was thanks to Mexican drug lords, but I finally got the van of my dreams.
I decided on a GMC Savana 3/4 ton Extended van partially because I had $3000 worth of rebates through my credit card. When we were van shopping, we did not know that we would one day be towing our Airstream. The van was just going to be the tow vehicle for our little T@B trailer we owned at the time. The T@B being a small camper, we were glad to have the extra interior space for storage and traveling comfort. It was a complete overkill of a tow vehicle for the T@B trailer as thus, most of the time we would actually forget we are towing the little teardrop. But we sure were glad to not have to upgrade when the time came to move up to the Airstream.
