Travels with Ziggy
Meet our new traveling companion, Ziggy. He's a renovated 2010 Pleasureway Excel TS camper van. This journal is a follow on to our Escaped Doodles full time experience to document Ziggy's adventures. Welcome to Travels with Ziggy.
After our full time travels we decided to scale back and just take trips again. (See our Escaped Doodles final post for all our thinking.) So here we go again, this time with Ziggy.
This journal/log is an eclectic conglomeration of "words" describing our travel With Ziggy. It'll tell of our trials and tribulations, some pictures, and some idea of where we go. Check out the brief summaries with links below for recent trips. The button below will take you to these and other trips not summarized below. Welcome and thanks for coming along.
Lost Coast - Aug-Sept 2025
Our first big trip with Ziggy extended from mid August to the end of September 2025. It was centered around the Lost Coast of northern California, the coast from Fort Brag to Ferndale. It's the corner of northwest California coast where no paved roads traverse north/south. Very unknown and "lost" area of the Emerald Triangle. Who wouldn't want to go there?
But the Lost Coast is some 100 miles plus side trips. We must extend. So we spent time in the Sierras on the way to the coast. Then after the Lost Coast we continued up the Oregon Coast to Reedsport and inland along the Smith River. Some very small less than secondary roads to Roseburg. Turning back into normal tourists we followed Hwy 138 to Diamond Lake....
Mogollon Rim - July 2025
Our first trip with Ziggy, of more than a few days, was an exploration of the Mogollon Rim. It's a geological rim that extends most of the way across Arizona. It's close as we're in Prescott Valley about 100 miles south. We used the Mogollon Rim Discovery Trail from Overland Trail Guides for most of this trip. It started in Show Low, AZ and went west to Hwy 87 a little north east of Strawberry.
The Rim was all nice dirt/gravel roads. One goal with Ziggy is to get further off the beaten path than we could with Sassy. We made the voyage in July 2025 and it took up us about a week including travel to/from Prescott.