rystjohn
Advanced Member
Hey everyone!
For anyone who doesn't know us, my lady, our dog and myself live in and travel around in our 1997 Dodge Ram 2500 and Grandby FWC and call ourselves the Traveling Trio. We've been bouncing around the USA working and playing, and have been in CA for nearly 4 months and have LOVED every bit of it.
We've finally made it to the central area and are staying in SLO until the beginning of next week (8 Feb), when we hope to wander down to Carrizo Plains, through Santa Barbara, LA to visit a friend and drink a beer, and then over to Joshua Tree.
After Joshua Tree we don't really have anywhere to be for a while, and were thinking of heading up to Saline Valley to check out the hot springs. We've been doing tons of research and talking to a few folks who have made the trek, but considering our inexperience in serious off-roading, not to mention that we'll be driving out into the middle of nowhere with a 19 year old truck that has had it's fair share of issues, we were hoping that maybe someone else from the WTW community might want to make the trek with us or meet us out there? The route doesn't seem all that bad, and part of me thinks the sketchiness of the tales is to keep the common man from going there and ruining it for everyone else. We made the trip out to Verde Hot Springs in Arizona, and from what I've gleaned it seems like the roads are similar.
If nobody else is wanting to make this trek this time of year or around this time, we'd appreciate any tips, tricks, techniques or advice if you are willing to share.
We've never been to this part of California and are incredibly excited. We love the desert in Winter, and we really love hot springs! If anyone else has any other ideas or suggestions on where to explore, we're all ears! I do as much research as I can on here and ExPo, but obviously there comes a point at which I'd rather not be online looking for adventures and instead actually enjoying them.
We have until about April when we need to head back North for work, at which point we'll also want to stop in Carrizo Plains once more to see if there are any wildflowers!
There is no set timeline for this trip. We leave SLO on 2/8/16 and will probably take a week or so to get to JTNP. Our plan is to stay there until we run out of water, which will probably take around a week, so some time around 2/22/16, or roughly the last half of February.
For anyone who doesn't know us, my lady, our dog and myself live in and travel around in our 1997 Dodge Ram 2500 and Grandby FWC and call ourselves the Traveling Trio. We've been bouncing around the USA working and playing, and have been in CA for nearly 4 months and have LOVED every bit of it.
We've finally made it to the central area and are staying in SLO until the beginning of next week (8 Feb), when we hope to wander down to Carrizo Plains, through Santa Barbara, LA to visit a friend and drink a beer, and then over to Joshua Tree.
After Joshua Tree we don't really have anywhere to be for a while, and were thinking of heading up to Saline Valley to check out the hot springs. We've been doing tons of research and talking to a few folks who have made the trek, but considering our inexperience in serious off-roading, not to mention that we'll be driving out into the middle of nowhere with a 19 year old truck that has had it's fair share of issues, we were hoping that maybe someone else from the WTW community might want to make the trek with us or meet us out there? The route doesn't seem all that bad, and part of me thinks the sketchiness of the tales is to keep the common man from going there and ruining it for everyone else. We made the trip out to Verde Hot Springs in Arizona, and from what I've gleaned it seems like the roads are similar.
If nobody else is wanting to make this trek this time of year or around this time, we'd appreciate any tips, tricks, techniques or advice if you are willing to share.
We've never been to this part of California and are incredibly excited. We love the desert in Winter, and we really love hot springs! If anyone else has any other ideas or suggestions on where to explore, we're all ears! I do as much research as I can on here and ExPo, but obviously there comes a point at which I'd rather not be online looking for adventures and instead actually enjoying them.
We have until about April when we need to head back North for work, at which point we'll also want to stop in Carrizo Plains once more to see if there are any wildflowers!
There is no set timeline for this trip. We leave SLO on 2/8/16 and will probably take a week or so to get to JTNP. Our plan is to stay there until we run out of water, which will probably take around a week, so some time around 2/22/16, or roughly the last half of February.
