Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, is talking with Don Draper, in season 3, episode 9 of Mad Men. It’s the middle of the night, Draper, dragged out of bed by a call from Hilton, sternly inviting Don to visit him…
When we picked up our Noovo in April, we were ready. No one had yet made an inspection checklist, so I put one together, giving it a test run before sharing it with the Noovo community. (You can see the…
Convict Lake has a trail that runs all the way around it. It’s not a long walk and the views are unforgettable. Also unforgettable are the bathrooms. My wife and I have traveled by car all over the United States…
We you don’t have much, the small things matter. The driver of a Ram Promaster doesn’t get a heated seat, nor one that articulates much, or goes up and down, or goes back far enough, or even is that comfortable…
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…