2018 NEVER STOPPED GIVING 2018–AKA #vagabondlife #swellegantvagabonds–went something like this: Twenty nights in Winslow, 117 in Yucca Valley, and 228 split between hotels, motels, and AirBnB. Hotel Pepper Tree was our most frequent stay and we stayed in several AirBnB locations more than once. The only states we stayed in were California, Arizona, Tennesee, and…
The holiday season starts with Winslow’s annual Christmas Parade I’m told, “Everyone should experience Winslow’s Christmas parade once.” It’s true because for a few hours the people of Winslow demonstrate what a successful community is all about. First of all, it’s diverse by default. Participation is open to everyone and there’s no registration fee. You…
Sometime between 5:50-6:00 in the morning, I woke to coffee brewing and bump sounds in the garage. Within seconds I remembered it was Saturday, lake day and picture taking day. Lori and her new friends Aaron and Robert were shooting a feature on Bondorella for the Hagerty Classic Cars series, “Why I Drive.” 5:30am, maybe…
Friday Over two hundred vehicles gathered for Winslow’s 24th annual, “Just Cruisin’ Car Show.” Cars and trucks trickled onto the blocked streets beginning Friday morning. By late afternoon the drivers were on the poker run to be back before the moonlit Cackle Fest. As the nitro fumes dissipated and ears rang, the crowd paraded to First Street…
Winslow Window Photos While sorting old photos and a few recent ones sent to us by friends visiting Winslow, we stumbled on a bunch of old ones from FB & IG. Here are a few window shots from before paint and trim work, back when Aiden and Ava were little kids! If you have photos…
Life on the Free Range According to the pictures found on egg cartons, Free Range chickens are happier. So why not humans? It turns out we are. September twenty-ninth marks the one year anniversary of our vagabond lifestyle and we like it! Vagabond chickens are right. The plan was to settle somewhere within a month of…
We’re taking a look back to when we purchased the Motor Palace, the former Jennie’s site and some of the progress we’ve made. Jennie’s building One of our first projects was replacing the roof on the old Jennie’s Bar building next door. Water and animals flowed freely and it was forty to fifty years old. During the…
DELETE FILES / RESET HOSTING Don’t ever do this! We did a payed migration of our web hosting to CPanel (whatever that means) about a year ago. It didn’t go well but things still worked. The problem was we would get warnings we were running out of space etc. so a decision was made to…
Yesterdays Work Winslow Arizona is 16° as I write this but will be in the mid 50s later. The important thing is it’s warm inside, I have a working coffee maker, and delicious coffee from Mojo Coffee here in Winslow. Coffee kitchen Where I’m sitting right now with fresh darker paint on walls. Morning sun…
Merry Christmas 2013 It’s raining outside and the Jeep looks like crap. Miley is twerking to Jingle Bells Rap. You beat up some kook in an S.O.A. tee. …drive home from the lot with his freshly chopped tree. The wife’s making GIFs for her next tumblr post, you head for the market to steal a…
Excuse last night 8/23/13 I’m having trouble with my Eye Fi card again, it may or may not transfer pictures to my phone. Update this morning 8/24/13 It’s not transferring most most of my pictures. They’re on the card, it’s just not transmitting a signal. Here’s a couple shots at the San Juan Inn I would…
