New Van, New Adventures Coming!

July 11, 2020 by majesticmaverick

Meowmy wanted me to tell you about our new van!  That’s right, I am going from being an RV Kitty to a Van Cat! The main reason I haven’t been posting much about travels is because Meowmy and I didn’t go on many trips in 2019, and now with COVID in 2020, we are once again stationary, spending time at home. After driving the 20 ft Mini-Class C RV we had for 2.5 years and approximately 19,000 miles, Meowmy decided […]

Categories: Vanlife • Tags: Sprinter, sprintervan, stickers, vancat, vankitty, Vanlife, vanmeow

Bay Area Cat Adventure Club Meetups

February 27, 2020 by majesticmaverick

In early 2019, Meowmy found out about a local adventure cat meetup through Instagram.  We went to our first “cat hike” with the Bay Area Cat Adventure Club on January 21, 2019.  We met up at Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley at the Vollmer Peak Trail.  I got to meet 5 other cats that like to go on adventures with their humans!  Let’s just say we didn’t all get along, but we all hung out together at this cool tree […]

Categories: Meetup • Tags: Bay Area, Bay Area Cat Adventure Club, Bay Area Cats, Berkeley, Calicraft, Calicraft Brewing Co, CatExplorer, Fat Cat Backpack, Give Your Cat The World Week, Meetup, Tilden, Tilden Regional Park, Walnut Creek, Your Cat Backpack

Vanlife App Meetup & Superbloom

December 15, 2019 by majesticmaverick

As always, I’m very late posting. I’m a cat, so I don’t really understand how time works for humans, plus I spend a lot of time sleeping, as cats do. I hope you bear with me as I catch you up on our 2019 adventures! In late March, Meowmy took me and my favorite cat sitter Devin to Santa Barbara County on a beautiful stretch of land near New Cuyama for a vanlife meetup. The ride down was a bit […]

Categories: Meetup, Travel • Tags: Carrizo Plains, Carrizo Plains National Monument, Fat Cat Backpack, Flowers, Meetup, Moxi And Loon, New Cuyama, San Andreas, San Andreas Fault, Santa Barbara, Sprinter, Superbloom, The Vanlife App, Vanlife, Vanlife App

Lassen Volcanic National Park & Lake Almanor

February 21, 2019 by majesticmaverick

After our lava adventures last October, Meowmy took us to Lassen Volcanic National Park.  First we hit the Subway Cave in Lassen National Forest.  Since I’m a cat, I don’t get to explore these caves in order to not disturb the bat ecosystem, but Meowmy walked the 1/3 mile long cave and took some awesome photos.  It really does look like a subway tunnel! From there we headed to Manzanita Lake Campground where we spent the night.  Being that it […]

Categories: Travel • Tags: Brokeoff Mountain, Chaos Crags, Devasted Area, Feather River, Kings Creek, Lake Almanor, Lassen, Lassen National Forest, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Manzanita Lake, Subway Cave

Lava River Cave, Lava Butte, & Lava Beds

January 7, 2019 by majesticmaverick

After our lovely trip to Descend on Bend, Meowmy and I headed to Lava River Cave with our new friend Stavros whom we met at Descend.  The Lava River Cave is part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument in the Deschutes National Forest between La Pine and Bend in Oregon.  No pets are allowed in this mile-long lava tube, so they explored it without me, which took about two hours.  I heard it was really dark and cold inside and that they went so deep […]

Categories: Travel • Tags: Bend, California, Cave, Devils Homestead Flow, Fleener Chimneys, Hagelstein County Park, Klammath Falls, La Pine, Lava, Lava Beds, Lava Beds National Monument, Lava Butte, Lava River Cave, Merrill Cave, Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Newberry Volcano, Oregon, Sentinel Cave, Skull Cave, Valentine Cave, We Love To Explore

The Journey To Descend On Bend

November 14, 2018 by majesticmaverick

Meowmy was really excited for the 3-day vanlife camping event called Descend On Bend, which takes place an hour southeast of Bend, Oregon.  She decided to make a 10 day trip out of it, with stops along the way there and back. We left on Tuesday, September 25th and worked our way North to Burney Falls.  Since no pets are allowed on the trail to the falls, Meowmy went by herself to see these magnificent falls while I stayed in […]

Categories: Travel • Tags: Bend, Burney Falls, California, Descend On Bend, Fort Rock, Highway 89, Hole-In-The-Ground, Klammath Falls, McCloud, McCloud Falls, Mount Shasta, Oregon, Silver Moon Brewing, Weed

San Luis Obispo Trip

June 21, 2018 by majesticmaverick

When Meowmy heard about the Margarita Taco Festival in San Luis Obispo from her friend Heather in Paso Robles, she knew she had to make a weekend trip to the Central Coast of California to attend.  Caravanning once again with our friend Chris and his cat Michi, we headed out after work on Friday June 1st to Paso Robles, where we spent the night.  The next morning we drove to Morro Bay State Park for breakfast and a stroll on […]

Categories: Travel • Tags: California, Carmel, Carmel-By-The-Sea, Central Coast, Cuesta Pass, El Chorro Regional Park, Festival, Margaritas, Monterey, Morro Bay, Morro Bay State Park, Paragliding, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Sand City, Tacos

Death Valley & Alabama Hills Trip

May 10, 2018 by majesticmaverick

Early last month, Meowmy and I took another trip down to Southern California, this time with the objective to see Death Valley and the Alabama Hills.  We started out driving South on Highway 101 while the sun was rising, ending up in San Simeon to check out Hearst Castle.  I chilled in the RV while Meowmy took the tour of the house, gardens, and pools.  I heard my human grumbling when she got back about Neptune Pool being under construction, […]

Categories: Travel • Tags: Agoura Hills, Alabama Hills, Bakersfield, Bishop, Calabasas, California, Canyon Club, Death Valley, Father Crowley Viewpoint, Highway 101, James Dean Memorial Junction, Led Zepagain, Lone Pine, Mobius Arch, Mount Whitney, Paso Robles, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Sagebrush Cantina, Schats Bakery, Southern California, Stovepipe Wells, Ventura, Zabriskie Point

Camping at Anthony Chabot Regional Park

March 29, 2018 by majesticmaverick

The Bay Area RV Life group went camping at Anthony Chabot Regional Park at the end of February and it was a fun weekend!  There was a total of 14 humans on 6 campgrounds that met up to enjoy this huge 3,314-acre park in Castro Valley, including my pet friends Michi and Tennessee.  There was a pot luck dinner around a bonfire and I got to roam around the woods. Even though it was chilly night, it was sunny and warm both days […]

Categories: Meetup, Travel • Tags: Anthony Chabot Regional Park, Bay Area, California, Camping, Castro Valley, Lake Chabot, Lookout Ridge, SF Bay Area RVLife Mobile Chapter

SoCal Trip & San Diego Van Meetup

March 28, 2018 by majesticmaverick

At the end of January, Meowmy and I took a lovely trip down to Southern California for a week.  We headed down Highway 101 towards Santa Barbara, stopping for the night at Arroyo Hondo Vista Point between Gaviota and Goleta.  It’s a perfect overnight spot on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where we watched a beautiful sunset and met a local van dweller who stays there often. After a nice stroll down to the beach, we continued South with quick […]

Categories: Meetup, Travel • Tags: Agoura Hills, Aliso Creek Rest Area, Arroyo Hondo Vista Point, California, Emma Wood State Beach, Fiesta Island, Grover Beach, Highway 101, La Crescenta, Meetup, Mission Bay, Montrose, Paso Robles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, SoCal, Southern California, Super Blue Moon, Vanlife Connections, Westlake Lake, Westlake Village