{"id":616,"date":"2014-10-23T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:25:39","slug":"serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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Skylark in person!<\/p><\/div>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 hours.<\/p>\n

They are parked in an amazing location that makes me miss boondocking. I really don’t think I’m done RVing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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