(This is a slightly re-worked post from the original incarnation of Gypsy Arts on Blogspot.) My friend Nancy Wright calls RVs ‘turtlehouses’, as in, the house that you take with you when you go places. I love the description, and I think it’s really evocative of the thing I love about RVs- a way to see the world and still sleep in your own bed every night behind a nice solid door.

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I’ve been really enjoying the Ken Burns “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” documentary on KERA (my local NPR affliate) this week- so many beautiful places. I’ve especially loved the bits on Rocky Mountain National Park, where I used to travel every summer with my parents and little brother.

The National Parks aren’t generally dog-friendly though as far as hiking with dogs, which is perfectly reasonable (I always scoop and keep dogs on the trail,  but I know way too many folks (and a lot of more casual pet owners who just drag the dog along). (Future post in that, I suspect.)  And while Kaylee (service dog) is allowed in no-pets areas as long as she won’t impact the ecology of the area or otherwise impact it’s function, Lizzie’s not. So I’m planning to do more in the way of Forest Service and BLM lands.

I’ll expand this post in the future, I suspect, or make a page of it. Right now, it’s not got any real specifics, just places I want to go…. I’ll add those too, someday.

My goal is NOT to do all these in een the next two years. I’d like to plan on staying at least a month in most of these places, if not two (with some exceptions for some of the expensive ones). This list is just a starting place for future research.

• High desert in New Mexico, Arizona, and/or Colorado
• The rocky hill-and-arroyo country in southeastern Idaho where I went on Outward Bound.
• The Oregon Coast (again )
• Eastern Oregon
• Baja Penninsula (probably not unless I’ve got a group to travel with, though)
• Maine
• New York – both upstate out in the western half where I didn’t get to explore much, and I’d really like to explore Long Island, too, although it’s too expensive to stay long.
• Cape Hatteras & the coast of the Carolinas
• the west coast of florida
• florida keys

For those who don’t know, the new site/business name is because well, I’m sort of a gypsy at heart. In the last 9 years, I’ve lived in four states, and other than the moving in and out part, I’ve really adored getting to see different parts of the country and meet new people.  I love travelling, and I want to do more of it. At the same time, I value my own space, and my own comfy bed, and well… it’s hard to travel cheaply when you have two dogs to board!

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