Living In Beauty Carmen and Jim Beaubeaux

There are two campgrounds near downtown San Diego where we love to stay. One is the private luxury resort, Sun Outdoors San Diego Bay, and the other is an inland county campground, Sweetwater Summit Regional Park.
These two RV parks are as different as Cape Cod and Big Bend. That's largely due to the chameleonic character of San Diego where the scenery changes about every five miles. One park is on San Diego Bay and the other is inland, at the foot of Mother Miguel Mountain on The Sweetwater River.
The Sweetwater Summit Regional Park and Campground is set within nearly 1,000 acres of Sweetwater Valley on permanently preserved open space, surrounded by a metropolitan area.
This Campground is a gold nugget for RVers looking for scenic, tranquil, private and clean no-hassle accommodations with easy freeway access to downtown San Diego.
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Most tourists take two weeks to see Alaska. That's a mind-bender for we slow travel enthusiasts.
From down here in the lower 48 – as we look back on our 246 day trek with two-months in Alaska – it all seems like a whirlwind two-week expedition. Where did the time go? Is Alaska's mysterious energy threshold a portal to another dimension? Or was it all a dream?
Of course, Alaska is really up there, I know ... because I found the notes we we took, the notes I wish someone had shared with us before we set out.
So, here is our open book of the details – things we learned which you may find interesting, or even serve you as you plan your own unique overland adventure to the 49th State.
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Our Alaska overland adventure, beginning in San Diego, had finally come to an end - but endings don't come fast in Alaska. The adventure isn't really over until you reach the lower 48, almost 2,000 miles away.
It's like that time you hiked up to Half Dome and looked down into the valley from the summit and realized you were only halfway home and it was getting dark. It felt like the finish line kept moving farther and farther away. This part of the trip would be a push.
Weather predictions of snow and rough weather snapped the whip. We gave ourselves ten days. With plenty of sleep and down time, we should make it back safely.
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Hi, this is Jim with the annual report.
I will be brief and to the point.
Today, we wrap up our 7th year of full-time travel.
Tomorrow we enter our 8th year on the road.
It's been an amazing 7 years.
You, our 8,535 followers, guide us, discover and rediscover with us. So, we want to say thank you for being a part of this journey.
Click "Read more this post" for the details.
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If we were young, we'd probably sugar-sprinkle our Alaska exit saying, "We'll be back."
But as we pulled out of Chena Hot Springs we weren't whipping up any comeback sauce.
We knew the score.
There would be no reprise of our Alaska overland tour.
We had a wonderful adventure, but the floods, fires, rain, and bad roads wore us out.
We were tired.
The time had come to find a dignified exit while dealing with the fact that Alaska won't miss us at all.
The scenery on our four-day, 686-mile journey toward Haines was agonizingly beautiful.
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Alaska's growing season may be short, but the flowers are worth the wait.
Fanciful late summer plumage soothed our nerves as our frontal lobes surged with executive processes.
We were playing Russian roulette with the weather.
It was almost September, and we had yet to complete our sightseeing goals. Cooler weather had chased off the bugs, but every morning we cautiously inspected the mountains for signs of Termination Dust.
We were lonely tourists. Daylight hours had shortened and campgrounds were preparing to close for the season.
Yet, here we were, juggling the details of nomadic life in a strange land as we continued, Northbound.
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