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Lynne Benjamin

Lynne Benjamin has been RVing since the early 1970s and calls herself a “most-timer” (as opposed to full-timer). Though she considers her RV her home, she does spend a couple of months a year in a condo.

A close-up of a camel's face.
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See the exotic

Yuma has many historical points of interests—but for something totally out of the ordinary, go explore the Saihati Camel Farm.

An image that depicts using a Canadian cell phone in the United States.
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Stay in touch

If you have a question, we’ll try to find the answer.

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A Navajo Nation adventure

The Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah in Navajo) is huge and covers 67,339 square kilometres.

Storage space inside RV
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The laws of space

Lynne Benjamin shares how to make the most of a limited space.

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Good, bad and . . . bizarre

Despite its name, Slab City is nothing like an official city. In fact, part of the attraction is that there are no rules and no fees—so they say.

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The ghosts of peoples past

Columnist Lynne Benjamin muses on the daily lives of the Mogollon peoples, who inhabited the Gila cliff dwellings of New Mexico.

hot springs
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Meet me at the oasis

Just off the highway between Yuma, Arizona, and El Centro, California, is an area they call the Dunes—an area consisting of mile after mile of hills of fine, silty sand.

Cactus
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All about organ pipe cacti

We were surprised to realize that the Ajo/Why, Arizona, area offers so many great sights and things to do. Our first outing was to the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Kitt Peak
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Welcome to Kitt Peak

We talked about the observatory at Kitt Peak and decided that on this trip we just had to check it out.

RV in a storm
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The desert I know and love

We woke up Tuesday morning to bright sunlight, quail scurrying through the wash and the smell of creosote…now that’s the desert I know and love. Monday night was quite an ordeal, however.

Quartzsite
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Quartzsite after the shows and vendors

They say you can get anything you want in Quartzsite, but you have to wait until the vendors show up. Before that all you see is an outline of what’s coming.

Celia’s Rainbow Gardens
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Multifaceted Quartzsite

Quartzsite attracts a lot of interesting/different types, musicians, artists, as well as, some burned-out desert rats. Come show time, the populations explodes.

Desert palace
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Sun, sand and rocks

Even if geology isn’t your thing, approaching and driving through Death Valley gives you a sense of all the tremendous geological happenings throughout the ages.

Zion National Park.
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Reaching up to the gods

Check out these hikes and climbs in Zion National Park

Calico mines
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Beyond Laughlin

More than just casinos and bright lights—unique and unusual attractions surround Laughlin, Nevada

Rvers playing guitar together
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Snowbird connections

Some snowbirds (even in RVs) like to go to the same place and stay in the same park with the same people year after year.