Travel Across America ~ Arizona and Paint Chips

Mini Joshua trees, saguaro cacti and gorgeous mountains ~ Mojave Desert

What do paint chips and Arizona have in common?

A lot of fascinating colorful things!

Check out these colors that I’m seeing SO much of in today’s modern

RV market…

Coyote Wash about an hour outside of Phoenix

is painted in the light greens and dark bark of

Manzanita bushes,

the brilliant bark~green of Palo Verde trees 
dotting the desert countryside,

and the sandy light tans of crushed stone and ancient sand 
from the ice age.

At the Design Bloggers Conference in Atlanta in March

greens and browns were definitely the 

“in colors” this season ~ from glass backsplash tiles

to sparkling granite and solid top counters

and of course to

many of the soft furnishings including

pillows covers and furniture fabrics.

Today’s Rv manufacturers trying to capture

the hearts and purses of would~be buyers

look to nature’s hues when designing practicality and style 
into their products and what better colors to capture

our attention than these!

Love the faux stone fireplace surround! Today's RV's have many storage compartments
compared with older models from decades ago.  This Keystone Montana model has magnetic
"slam doors" in some of its underneath storage compartments.

Just little old Me checking out the storage in this bathroom.  Notice the controls to the left ~
these control the ceiling fan and its cover and the light switch is there, too.

Grand Design and Jayco’s Eagle series

are capturing our attention

as well as 

Highland Ridge Open Range series,

the above~mentioned

Keystone Montana, and Grand Design Solitude 

fifth-wheels.

I am a fan of white

walls and white cabinets

but

I do understand that not everyone

wants to be washing their white household goods

as frequently as I do

in their motorhomes, travel trailers

and fifth~wheels!

;)

Last post I wrote about our looking for a used fifth~wheel

to move into hopefully within a year.

This next trailer I will be

“making our own”

and will probably paint the kitchen and bathroom cabinets

antique white and distress ~ kinda.
That is...If Hubby will let me!
;)

We’ve begun our journey heading east

across roads once travelled by millions of pioneering men and 

women leaving the familiar and journeying on hardtack and 

a prayer to their final destinations over roads now paved 

which the modern driver takes only days to do 

what took our forefathers anywhere from 

three to six months to travel.

I have exciting photos coming in the next week 
 sharing everywhere we have driven:
 California through Arizona, then New Mexico and Texas.
After a few days layover in Texas, we are now driving up through
Oklahoma, Kansas, then into Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.

This is one of their engagement photographs taken this winter by a photographer friend in Sioux Falls, SD.

We have a wedding to attend 
this next weekend ~ 
Our son Peter and his bride~to~be Justine
will be united in marriage in a lovely city named
TEA!
I am sooo looking forward to this blessed wedding 
and later sharing a few photos from
their special day with you.  I know it will be a lovely time!
:)

Sneak peak of that place... Nope! I'm not giving Any Other Clues! 

Yesterday I visited somewhere
really really big
and 
I have a TON of photos of this place and shop!
{I MAY have shopped there a bit myself!}







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