Pre-dawn Winslow is a wonderful time of day. Morning air in Winslow is calm and clean, the trains are rumbling, coffee is hot, and people are visiting with “Easy”, Glenn, and the girl in the flatbed Ford. Morning Blues with Tommy Tommy Dukes sets up at the Arizona Trading Company around eight AM most days…
This post about leaving home began in January and while it’s still the same theme, everything is different. Here’s the original, “We expect to be completely out of Orange County by late February and it’s finally sinking in. Though I lived in four other states growing up, Orange County California was always home. Even while…
A lot of little things happened on the Motor Palace project over the last few months, along with one BIG thing. Check it out.
Thanks to Winslow’s Cinema Festival, we had a productive couple of months at the 66 Motor Palace, moving closer to the vision!
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…
