When I started to seriously research RVing, one of the things I was anxious to know was how do real people live in an RV? I couldn’t find many people who met my demographic of single and working age or at least keen on spending a lot of time behind a computer desk.

I looked at a lot of RVs and had no idea how I could fit an office into them. And then I came across the blog of a single guy full-timing in a class C motorhome with an office in the back bedroom and I went HA HA. I literally found Miranda less than a month later. This fellow is Andy Baird.

Over the years, we became online friends. Andy was an incredible mentor and teacher for me during my travels. He’s been mostly based in New Mexico, so when I started to plot my route to Mexico this fall, I decided that I really wanted to meet up with him if we could get our itineraries to match up.

After playing with maps, I decided that I was definitely going to Zion National Park and that I would do a detour to meet Andy if he was in western New Mexico. I fired off an email asking him about his travel plans for late October. To my immense shock, he was heading for Zion, too!

This afternoon, after receiving coordinates from Andy, I headed up route 9 towards Zion to meet him at his boondocking spot 20 minutes from where I’m staying in Hurricane!

Skylark in person!

Like all the online friends I’ve met over the years, Andy was exactly who I expected him to be, as was his lovely cat Alix. We had a nice chat and then a friend he’s been traveling with, Jan, joined us. Jan has been reading my blog, so I got to meet two online friends!

We shared stories of nightmares on the road (Andy, you have to write about the trip up that snowy hill!) and other adventures, easily wiling away a couple of  hours.

They are parked in an amazing location that makes me miss boondocking. I really don’t think I’m done RVing. 🙂