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Mono Vista RV Park is right on the road that wraps around the west side of Mono Lake, in Lee Vining, at the west entrance to Yosemite National Park. It has a view of the lake, though I wouldn’t call…

The Rixen screen on our Noovo Plus controls the heater, both the furnace and the water heater. Ours worked great until the screen went dead. We restarted it and it worked again until it went dead. After the third time…

The waters of Mono Lake, with an extraordinarily high pH of 9.8, and two or three times saltier than ocean water, host no fish of its own. But it does host the nests of Osprey, also called fish-hawks, which eat…

There were wind advisories all during our week-long trip back from picking up our Noovo in Las Vegas, all through Owens Valley and the mountains. This was my first time driving and this was a ten-foot tall van. It was…

Mods are how you fine tune your van, sometimes correcting small oversights of the manufacturing, and sometimes optimizing the van for your own preferences. Here we have two of each. Of the four, one is priced at about $50, one…

No matter how many times you have visited Mono Lake, it is worth another visit. Located at Lee Vining in the Eastern Sierras’ Owens Valley, the lake sits at the beginning of the road up Tioga Pass and on into…

Your constitutional rights are only as good as the ability and willingness of the citizens to stand up for them during those times when those rights are most under threat. A National Historic Site just north of Lone Pine makes…

This post is the first in a series on travel books. Alain de Botton, a British writer, born in Switzerland and educated to be a philosopher before he turned to writing books for a more general audience, sets out his…

Alabama Hills is like a mini-Arches National Park, placed in the very shadow of Mount Whitney and the Sierra Mountains. Like Valley of Fire, it is a small area, but it offers a wealth of hiking and scenic driving all…

You probably need to carry a traction board on your van but how should you attach it?. They are sold and carried as pairs, though in practice often one will do, and they need to be mounted somewhere on the…