Roads Less Traveled

Mark & Emily Fagan with our rolling hom in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.

Mark & Emily with our rolling home in Valley of Fire, NV...

Mark & Emily Fagan with our floating home "Groovy" in Mexico.

...and with our floating home "Groovy" in Mexico.

Full-time RV travel  took us to Duck Lake in Mammoth, California.

Duck Lake, Mammoth, California

Yaquina Lighthouse Oregon. seen on our full-time RV travels.

Yaquina Lighthouse, Central coast of Oregon.

Devil's Tower, Wyoming, behind our Lynx travel trailer.

Devil's Tower, Wyoming

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming where we stayed in a wonderful campground.

Mammoth Hot Springs

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada has a terrific campground / RV park.

Cathedral Gorge, Nevada

Daytona Beach, Florida, which we explored while living in our fifth wheel trailer.

A royal tern at Daytona Beach, Florida

Pronghorn Antelope in Wyoming.

A pronghorn "antelope" in Wyoming

Caribbean island Carriacou, Grenada, seen before our sailing travels aboard s/v Groovy.

Paradise Beach, Carriacou Island, Grenada

s/v Groovy at the beginning of our cruising travels.

"Groovy" at home in Ensenada, Mexico.

Little Wild Horse Canyon State Park, a fantastic slot canyon in Utah.

Little Wild Horse Canyon, Utah

Petroglyph in San Rafael Swell, Utah.  We camped nearby in Green River State Park.

Petroglyph, San Rafael Swell, Utah

Antebellum mansion in Natchez Mississippi where we traveled with our fleetwood travel trailer.

An antebellum mansion in Natchez, Mississippi

Horse & buggy, Ensenada, Mexico where we were cruising with s/v Groovy.

Horse & buggy, Ensenada, Mexico.

Diablo Lake, Washington, North Cascades seen from a rest area overlook.

Diablo Lake, Washington

San Diego California where we boondocked with our fifth wheel trailer.

San Diego Harbor, California

Las Hadas Resort Marina, Manzanillo, Mexico, a great cruising destination.

Las Hadas Resort Marina, Manzanillo, Mexico

Full-time RVers Mark and Emily Fagan.

Enjoy our website

-- Mark & Emily Fagan

Welcome

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Seeking a life of travel and adventure, we sold everything we

owned in May, 2007, rented out our house in Arizona, and moved

into a travel trailer to have the adventure of a lifetime.  For two and

a half years we criss-crossed the North American continent.  We

traveled primarily throughout the American West and Southwest

and scooted across the south to Florida twice.  We also got out of

the trailer for two extended motel-based excursions, one around

Michigan's perimeter and the other to the southern Caribbean

islands.  In January, 2010, we took to the sea, purchasing and

moving aboard a sailboat with plans to divide our time between

summer RVing in North America and winter cruising in Mexico.

These pages are a photo journal of our experiences.  If you are

planning similar adventures, enjoy pretty photos of fun places, or

are curious to find out what the full-time RV lifestyle or liveaboard

cruising lifestyle is all about, we hope this website will serve as an

inspiration.

Highlights of places we have visited are grouped on individual

pages, by state and country, and are accompanied by anecdotal

stories.  The Route page shows the chronological order of our

adventures with links to each area we have seen.  Latest Items

(above right) and News (top banner) both link to a list of the most

recent updates to our website.

Full-time RVing

In the top banner there are pages describing our rigs and other

equipment, including our solar setup and vent-free propane

heater.  The full-time RV lifestyle is unusual, so there are some

pages related to it, including resources about other travelers that

inspired us before we left, and some thoughts about why we

chose to live this way.  There are some fun statistics from our first

year and a half of travel, and information about our favorite

method of camping, boondocking.  There is also some nuts-and-

bolts info about living in an RV full-time, a peek at our budget,

and some tips & tricks we've learned along the way.  "What's it

like?" offers a play-by-play view of our lives, describing all that

happened in one month on the road.

Our first RV was a popup tent trailer.  It was a blast.  Every time

we took it on a trip we fell in love all over again -- with each other,

with the trailer, and with life.  So we called it The Luvnest.  For

good luck, we gave that name to our first fulltime travel trailer, and

the name stuck when we upgraded to our current fifth wheel.

Cruising

We had contemplated a sailing lifestyle before we ran off in a

trailer, but the distance was too great from the desert to the deep

blue sea.  Besides, we could never come up with a good name for

the boat.  Everything for a cruising lifestyle fell into place when

Mark awoke one morning with the name "Groovy" on his mind.

Our purchase of Groovy is a crazy tale of transcontinental flights

and sudden changes in plans.  However, the boat itself has been

a great winter home, and has taken us along the Pacific coasts of Baja California, mainland Mexico's Costa Algre (Mid-Pacific) ,

Costa Grande (S. Pacific) and N. Pacific coast, as well as the Sea of Cortez.  To get your bearings on the Mexican coast, check

out Mexico Maps.  Outfitting a boat to go cruising and then living aboard in a foreign country is quite an experience and we offer

some insights and things we learned in Mexico Cruising Tips 1 and Tips 2.  We use two small boats extensively and offer reviews

of both our Porta-bote and our Hobie Tandem Inflatable Kayak.

As our traveling lifestyle has progressed and we have drifted away from

our former, more conventional, daily patterns, we have found ourselves

wandering off the well-worn paths of other travelers.  So, when a friend

sent me a heartfelt email entitled, "The Road Less Traveled" (after he

had read my notes about why we are pursuing this dream), it seemed

appropriate to adapt that phrase for the top of this web page.

The self-reflections that conclude Robert Frost's famous poem,

written so many years ago, ring true for us today:

Two roads diverged in a wood

And I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference.

Here are a few more of our favorite photos...

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