Blog 3736 – 02.02.2026

RV Camping

Fourteen years ago this September in Green River, Wyoming I purchased my first RV Camper before beginning a work assignment as a third party welding inspector on a twenty-nine mile pipe line installation job near Baggs, Wyoming. I pulled the camper to the Happy Camper RV Park in Baggs, Wyoming. When that work assignment which lasted from September till December was over, the snow in Baggs was so deep that I had to leave the camper there when I drove to my next work assignment in Hudson, Colorado. 

I asked the campground owner in Baggs when the snow melted so I could come back for my camper and a 1960 Willy’s Jeep that I had bought to use on the twenty-nine mile natural gas pipeline that I inspected the welds on that six month work assignment in Wyoming. He said the snow was usually gone the first week in June. That was the only time that I ever saw that part of Wyoming green, just after the snow melted.

I made two trips back to Baggs in June and pulled my RV camper and my Willy’s Jeep to a storage lot in Loveland, Colorado where I had been staying in an extended stay place while working in Hudson. I bit later I moved the camper to a RV park in Hudson near the project I was inspecting. That assignment ended for me soon after so I put the camper back in storage with the Willy’s in Loveland and drove to my next work assignment in Chesapeake, Virginia where I stayed in a motel till that assignment ended. Next I had an assignment in Delta, Colorado. I stayed in a motel for that one too. Then I drew three work assignments in Indiana, the first one in Terra Haute, then latter Zionsville, and lastly Lafayette. For the first couple of these I stayed in nearby motels till the Memorial Day weekend when I drove out to Loveland, Colorado to pick up my RV camper and pull it back to an RV park in Crawfordsville, Indiana where I stayed till the last two Indiana works assignments were completed. All toll I lived in that RV camper in eight different states Wyoming, Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.

Nebraska was my last six month work assignment and I retired after that one in December of 2021. I also retired my first RV camper having damaging it beyond repair on the drive back from Nebraska to Texas.

Last August I drove up to Missouri to pickup an another 20’ pull behind RV camper that I had purchased from a friend in Indiana. I parked it on some timber property that I own in East Texas.

Last October I purchased about five acres of property adjacent and just north of my campsite. The new property was till his death in 2013 the ranch and homesite of Alton (Jack) Mitchell. I am clearing the property and restoring Jack’s ranch house. It will take a while as I plan to do most of the work myself.

I intend to spend most of the last quarter of my life on my small restored horse ranch. Ambitious intention for a seventy-five years young man you might say. Well, to hit any target or reach any goal you must first take aim. Taking baby steps toward my goal lets the Universe know I am serious about my intentions. I have learned that is the secret to getting what you want in life. Not hard work, but focusing on what you really want and not on what you don’t want. Life is like the old Greyhound Bus commercial: “Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us.” Our higher power is our loving and infinite source, our higher best self, we have only to ask believing that we shall receive to get everything that we could ever want or need.

Some dear friends, Joy and Don Anderson, knowing how much my lovely and loving wife Linda Lee loves to work jigsaw puzzles and enjoys staying in our RV camper, gave her today’s pictured jigsaw puzzle. She just completed it yesterday.

Your friend, fellow traveler, RV camper, and would be rancher,

David James White