12-22-2024
Had a chance to do Soldiers pass in the Jeep with Scott a friend we met a few months back here in Sedona. He has been showing us the trails since. Here is a view along the way. We will be publishing more soon.
11-26-2024
So here we are 2 days until Thanksgiving and closing in on 8 months on the road.
We have seen some beautiful things. Our plan for 2 years on the road is 1/3 done and we have not posted near what we wanted to but we will get there. We have posted some beautiful pictures at the start of this adventure but people seem to want videos which we are working on. It is a tricky thing to do when spend the day taking pictures and trying to gather info on the places we go. The afternoon and evening are spent processing and retouching the photos. One of the limiting factors to that process is the pain I live with. I can only sit and do computer stuff for a very limited time at a time. A lot of moving around, stretching and laying flat during the course of the day trying to keep the pain at bay. Whether I do activities or sit around the house, somewhere in the day the pain rears its ugly head and at that point it is time for the narcotics to come out and play, only then will I get the edge taken from the pain. When we started planning for this site we thought my battle with pain would be the limiting factor. We thought it would be Miss Lynn helping me along on our journey. Little did we know life had its own ideas for our adventure. A couple of years ago Miss Lynn started having some balance issues. They got progressivly worse and we started seeing the endless line of specialists trying to diagnose WTF was going on. Then about a year ago the doctors decided she had "Atypical Parkinsons". As I understand it, there is Parkinsons disease and then there is several other diseases that mimic Parkinsons and since then she has undergone many more tests to try and diagnose her conditon further. They put her on disabillity and we knew we could not wait on our plan of wandering around in a motorhome showing the beauty we encountered. We sold off a big chunk of Lynns 401k and bought us a motorhome for our Great Gypsy Adventure which we kicked off in April of 2024.
Miss Lynn early on our adventure.
At that point Miss Lynn was still able to do most things on her own. I was able to just hold her hand and we could still take a nice walk hand in hand. Then she started falling more and more. Those falls had her pretty bruised up and it became necessary for me to help her in everythig she does. In public she has to use a walker and if it continues on its present course she will need a whellchair soon. It is a good thing we took this adventure when we did. It is a tough situation all the way around but we are somehow making it work and we are gratful for being able to do it. Life can take some funny turns and all we can do is adjust the best we can. Even though we have many challenges ahead of us, we are having a great time. We have collected some great photos and we will publish them as time and motivation will allow.
Miss Lynn with her walker. November 2024
11-12-2024
It has been a while since posting anything, sorry about that. The dream of what I originally wanted for this site and the reality of doing it are two different things. We had planned on both of us being in good shape, able to still do things relativley easy for old timers such as ourselves. Now here we are both of us disabled but giving it a valiant effort non the less. Little did we know that The Lovely Miss Lynn would have some serious
medical issues and my pain levels would be out of control. Still we have been trying our best to publish beautiful content, but lets be honest, it is dificult to get motivated when your beautiful wife and life partner is slipping away little by little and your own pain is through the roof. I am glad that we are doing this now because 2 years from now all bets are off. We have seen a bunch of unbeleivable things and in spite of having to lead Miss Lynn around in anything she does, we are making it work and have collected some remarkable photos, video and other info to show you and it will appear in these pages sooner or later. Keep checking on us we are doing the best we can. In the meantime here is a panel of petroglyphs (or is it petrographs?) that we shot the other day on the Black Dragon Wash Trail. Click on the image to discover more about petroglyphs and petrographs.
10-12-2024
We had a chance not long ago to go back to Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas. CLICK HERE for more information
Our most recent videos or entries will be posted here and moved to the daily blog when they are no longer the most current.
ABOUT ROADDOGS
So here we are. After talking about and planning for years, we are about to live full time the Roaddog way. I have been put on disability because my physical condition has finally eroded to the point that I can no longer work and Miss Lynn is dealing with some issues that is going to retire her early as well. So now what? We have been building this site over the years without promoting it so when we went to it full time in retirement we wanted to have lots of stuff to show you from day 1. Now here it is time to start putting the dream into action and I am living in severe chronic pain. So much pain it has forced me out of the workforce and severely hampered my life. Since it will be with me for the rest of my life it has brought me to a crossroad.
Do I give up and retire to a recliner to spend this last phase of life watching the Wire for the tenth time and streaming videos? Or do I say damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead and do my best to continue this site as Imy condition permits?
I am glad to report we have decided to die with memories rather than die with dreams. We are going to give it a try and hit the road on the ultimate road trip. So today I am announcing "THE GREAT GYPSY ADVENTURE" Thats right we have purchased an RV and we are going to head out in late March for a 2 year adventure. It is finally time to start promoting this site so share, like, and subscribe to our videos on youtube and our pictures on instagram. (You can find us under bigbadroaddog) And since I am disabled we will be taking an extra look at how the disabled are accommodated at the places we visit. I might be crazy trying this with the amount of pain I live with. Not to mention the hard road Miss Lynn is traveling. But I figure I can deal with the pain just as easy sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon as I can sitting in my living room streaming Netflix. And if you think about it, if not now, When?
I am not pretending to be some great writer, (if you explore further you will soon see how accurate that statement is.) I am not here to help you find a cheaper airline flight or hotel room. There are plenty of sites for that. Miss Lynn and I are here to show you the world that we see as we wander through this last phase of life. The creator has provided us a fantastic, bizarre and beautiful world and we want to see and show you as much of it as possible. Now that we have been forced into retirement and have become full time Roaddogs, I will continue to add to the site as I am able.
It is a nice dream. I hope you come along for the journey.
HUGH 2-2-2024
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9-9-2024
We had a lot of excitement yesterday at the Thousand Trails campground in Acton when a man just 4 spaces away from Miss Lynn and myself went off the deep end and had a standoff with Los Angeles County Sheriffs department. He then set fire to the RV, climbed out the skylight shouting all kinds of nonsense about money laundering and all kinds of nutty things then jumped off the top of the RV and escaped into the hills. Check out my video below.
9-7-2024
We spent the last several days at the Banning KOA. We were supposed to stay at the Thousand Trails campground in Idylwild but upon arrival we discovered they didn't have an adequate space for us. It looks like it is a cool park just no pull through spaces. The changes of angle on the roads was also a problem as our trailer hitch dragged in several spots. So we canceled our Idylwild reservation and ended up at the Banning KOA, which turned out to be a good thing. The Banning KOA is a descent RV park and will definetly use it when coming through this way again.
We have done some redesigning of our site to make this gypsy adventure a little easier to navigate. We are starting over with our approach to videos. This redesign of the Gypsy adventure will be a good thing and our videos will start to show up on a regular basis. I hope you all understand that 2 disabled people traveling the highways and byways of America is possible but it takes a lot of work. My pain levels by mid day are through the roof so attending to all I have to is tricky to say the least. As tricky as it is, we are having the time of our lves and I am so glad to have done this now because our situation will de decidely different in 2 years. Our plan has been to take the 2 years we planned for with this Gypsy adventure and then purchase a piece of property and build a house. We might end up doing that a little early depending on Miss Lynns status. In the meantime check out our other features here on roaddogs and we will have new stuff very soon.
