https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/and-2026-begins/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:24:53 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=81224 January 8th to March 19th , 2026 It’s been quite a while since our last update, and we have plenty to share! January started with a bit of a “cold bite” here in Vegas—nighttime temps were hovering near freezing—but as soon as the sun hit, we were back into the double digits Celsius. We did […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-return-to-the-us/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:33:19 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=79555 August 25th, 2025 GAS: $3.27 a gallon in WA; $3.54; in OR $3.32 9 (cheapest); in NV $3.23 (cheapest) After crossing the border where we only got asked ONE question, we drove on to Bellingham and filled up the gas tank at the Bellingham Costco before heading into Seattle on the I-5 shortly after 9AM. […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/end-of-our-time-in-the-us-of-a/ Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:30:33 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=58795 July 30th, 2023 We spent the weekend at the campground in Bishop, doing our daily routine with no major outings.  Fran did a small amount of laundry by hand to make sure we’d last till we get back to Serena’s in two weeks after putting the trailer back into storage.  It continues to be hot […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/more-of-eastern-cali-camping/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/more-of-eastern-cali-camping/#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:42:56 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=58660 July 17th, 2023 Here in June Lake, there is a lot of dispersed camping north of town and there were few campers so it was great.  There are two forestry campgrounds but they do not offer serviced sites and no showers so we didn’t see the point of paying to camp when we have all […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/more-of-eastern-cali-camping/feed/ 1 https://calderescapes.com/posts/first-2-weeks-of-camping-in-nv-ca-july-2023/ Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:32:41 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=58495 July 3rd, 2023 We left Serena and Kurt’s place around nine in the morning (they had already left for work) and made our way eastward along the I80 back to Fallon to the storage place.  The trailer looked in good shape from what we could tell after nearly four months except for a loose piece […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/returning-to-the-states-to-get-to-mexico/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 04:46:05 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35813   September 16th, 2020 We left Mary & Gavin’s early this Wednesday morning, found a sani dump and caught the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay near West Vancouver.  First stop:  our friends, Therese & Pat in North Vancouver.  We had brought them the cod fish that Bill gave us and we had a great […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/work-trip-to-la/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:44:00 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=20243   September 14th We both arrived separately (booking screw up) and safely at LAX and met up at the hotel in Anaheim. Doug’s meetings are in nearby Santa Ana. Doug worked Thursday morning, we did some shopping and errands in the afternoon)and on Friday he worked until 3 when he picked up Fran and we took […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/crossing-the-border/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/crossing-the-border/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:21:12 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=7313     We left Yuma Tuesday morning, October 6th. The drive to the border crossing at Tecate, California/Tecate, Mexico had quite diverse scenery. Yuma is right on the AZ/CA border and almost as soon as we crossed it, we were in the Imperial Dunes Recreation Area and it was quite gorgeous. There is a canal […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/crossing-the-border/feed/ 2 https://calderescapes.com/posts/mojave-weekend/ Fri, 28 Mar 2014 03:27:30 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/mojave-weekend/     We finally had a weekend escape from Las Vegas – we know, we know.  Isn’t Vegas escape enough?  But really we have not even been to the Strip yet and the RV park has just been our “home” and with “home” comes errands and “projects” so we’ve had some pretty busy weekends. So […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/3-parks/ Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:05:34 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/3-parks/ As Doug was working in Los Angeles, Fran joined him there instead of him coming home to Renton. So as we are prone to doing, we decided to knock a few more national parks off our list. As the President declared a new park in California earlier this year, there are now 59 national parks […]]]>