Pining for the Fjords

Did you read Part 1 of our Southern AZ Wine Country Harvest Host adventure?  You should probably do that, if you haven't already.   One of the socially distanced seating options at Birds & Barrels' tasting room. Decent view, that. In the last blog, we'd packed up Arlene and the rest of the rig and pulled out of our home for Friday night, Sonoita Vineyards in Sonoita, Arizona.  Although we didn't yet need to empty our waste tanks, we wanted to put a bit more water in our fresh tank (we think we didn't fill it up completely at our stop the day before); because this is Arizona, we passed several RV parks and whatnot on the smaller, local roads between Sonoita and Willcox, and we stopped at Quail Ridge in Huachuca City.  Since we weren't residents of the park, we paid a small fee to top off our tank (the office was closed due to COVID, so I heaved some cash into their mail drop slot and figured that would even out any karmic imbalances), and we were back on the...

Like anything else, when you purchase a travel trailer, there are roughly a jillion different subscriptions you can sign up for; there's your normal roadside assistance ones, there are warranties out the wazoo, and there are a set of camping related memberships in which you can enroll as well.  In our case, although we are Good Sam members (which is mostly just to use the discount on merchandise at Camping World), we were more excited about signing up for Harvest Hosts , a program that, for a yearly fee, lets you camp - for no additional fee - at wineries, farms, museums, and other spots around the country. We'd been planning to try out our HH membership at a few wineries we like in Southern Arizona since we enrolled last summer, but circumstances never quite worked out.  However, this past weekend, we finally got our rears in gear and made it happen! Tasting at Sonoita Vineyards, our first camping location After calling the wineries and ensuring they had space for us and Arle...