Still hot to the touch on October 28, 1993, this is all that remains of the upper house, a former livery stable on the estate of Abbott Kinney.
Our living room was a former pump house on the Kinney estate, was built in the early 1900s.
In January 1994, the Phoenix One begins to take shape at the Revcon manufacturing plant in southern California.
The Phoenix One takes on some boulders on one of our first off-highway adventures in Icicle Canyon near Leavenworth, Washington.
A 6.5 ton vehicle is hard on tires. Mark became very skilled at changing tires in challenging locations.
The Phoenix One is dwarfed by sequoias in Redwood National Park in early summer, 1994.
Daily chore: Mark set up drainage hoses for the black and gray water storage tanks.
The Phoenix One poses in slickrock country near Moab, Utah in January, 1995.
Robin Salzer hosted a “welcome back” party for us at his restaurant in Pasadena in 1995. Here, Freddie Speicher stops in for a visit.
Mark, Megan, and Marvin pose with the Phoenix One near the Rose Bowl in December, 1995. Photo by Florence Helmberger
Mark, Megan, Marvin, and the NicoVan in New Hudson, Michigan on July, 1997 Photo by Bill Schwab
The Phoenix One visits Chicago in 1996.
Mark, Megan, and Marvin—and RoadTripAmerica.com—are profiled in People Magazine in December, 1996.
Green Bay Packers legend Ray Nitschke with Mark and Megan in Green Bay, Wisconsin on August 25, 1997
Debbie Mazar, Great American Smokeout Spokesperson of 1997, with Marvin the Road Dog in the NicoVan at Times Square, New York City on November 20, 1997
Los Angeles Times article about Mark and Megan when the NicoVan was at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California in December, 1997
Aerial view of the NicoVan at the Rose Bowl on December 30, 1997 (see arrow) Photo by Bruce Jones
Marvin enjoys a glorious field of California poppies in Antelope Valley on April 30, 1998.
“Millennium Gypsies,” by Annette Winter, appeared in Westways Magazine in April, 2000.
The Phoenix One gets a new “wrap” for the Roads from the Ashes book tour. Photo by Dan Sedenquist
At home in Las Vegas but still adventuring, Megan and Mark in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada on September 29, 2018. Photo by Dan Sedenquist