April 2020 And just like that…it’s been a year since we arrived in Spokane. A year since the whirlwind of arriving in our new city, making an offer on a house 5 days later, and starting my new full time job the day after that. The most shocking thing about this one year mark is […]

October 2019 And just like that…it’s been half a year. Since I last wrote, we sold our beloved 5th wheel, Stumbo, to a sweet couple from Cashmere and sold our truck to a contractor in Western WA. We bought 2 Subarus and got library cards with our real address. Brad started his full time Occupational […]

April 12, 2019 Three years ago today I responded to a Craigslist ad: “Hello, I’m very interested in the 5th wheel you have for sale. My husband & I & our 2 young daughters plan to downsize this year & move into an RV for 1-2 years and travel the country. Your RV has all […]

Hot Springs, South Dakota September 28-October 3, 2018 As I’ve described before, we’ve found a balance that works well for us in alternating between two very different modes of “camping”.  We spend some of our time in developed campgrounds and parks, enjoying all the perks that come with the higher cost – amenities like shower […]

September 13-26, 2018 Missoula, Montana From our lovely boondocking spot in rural Idaho, we headed north toward Montana. Early the next morning Brad visited some nearby hot springs.  He had a lovely time soaking in the warm water despite coming face-to-face with a snake and dropping his phone in the water.  Thankfully, his phone survived […]

September 3-12, 2018 Sun Valley/Ketchum, Idaho We spent 10 days boondocking in Sawtooth National Forest near Sun Valley, ID. We had a nice, quiet site a couple of miles down a dirt road on National Forest land. It was very peaceful and quiet, and 10 minutes away the cute little town of Ketchum offered any […]

August 27 – September 2, 2018 Perhaps the event in Pocatello that will have the most lasting impact on our family is the introduction of Ginger. During our last week at Cowboy RV, a sweet little orange kitten emerged from a shrub and came to reside outside our camper door. I couldn’t resist giving it […]

August 5 – September 3, 2018 Pocatello, Idaho We spent a whole month in Pocatello, Idaho to explore a part of Idaho we hadn’t seen before. For a rather quiet little rural town, we ended up having quite the month. Our RV Park was also a Mobile home community, and early on the girls befriended […]

July 31 – August 5, 2018 Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming After spending every dollar we had on truck repair in Colorado, and staying longer than expected in a $50/night campground to wait for that, we were feeling even more ready than usual to get back out into the country. Brad found us a great […]

July 15-31, 2018 Loveland, Colorado If I had written this blog post during the beginning of our stay in the Loveland/Fort Collins area it would have been different.     If I had written this blog in the middle of our stay, my words would have oozed with joy when I shared about our week […]

We recently celebrated 700 days on the road. By “celebrated”, I mean I wrote “Happy Day 700” on the white board the night before, but we left the house early the next morning and returned late, so no one else saw it until the day after.  “Oh, it’s day 700?” Coral asks.  “Um, yeah…it was […]

Crested Butte, Colorado July 2-15, 2018 Crested Butte was 12 days worth of boondocking in an idyllic mountain meadow, reveling in wildflowers, hummingbirds, and friends. I mean, it wasn’t all grand theatrical numbers from The Sound of Music. There were also rainy days of cabin fever, bad attitudes about finishing up our school year, and […]

Rabbit Valley, Colorado July 2-3, 2018 In between our days of fun with friends in Kanab, UT and a chance to meet up with other traveling friends in Colorado we had very little time.  There wasn’t enough time to plan an additional destination in between, so we decided to make the 8.5 hour drive one […]

Kanab, Utah June 23 – 29, 2018 I don’t like to have a detailed plan that I have to follow.  Such a thing feels like a restriction to me, and any restriction makes me feel stifled and frustrated.  It’s like the feeling of standing at a spot in a swimming pool where you can touch, […]

Kanab, UT June 1 – July 2, 2018 We haven’t stayed an entire month in very many places. We spent one winter in Arkansas with my family, and one in Arizona with Brad’s family. Besides that we have only done the “month stay” in 3 locations…Wenatchee, WA, Pahrump, NV, and now Kanab, UT. Since we […]

Kanab, Utah June 2018 Did I mention that we found a hummingbird nest? Brad says that this is the most excited I’ve been about any other single element of our RV Adventure. I would never have asserted such a thing, but I’m also not going to argue with him. When we pulled into our site […]

Bryce Canyon, Utah May 25 – June 1, 2018 In our first loop around the US we only visited Bryce Canyon National Park and the surrounding area on one quick day trip.  And like so many parts of Utah, it demanded a second more thorough look. We found a wonderful boondocking spot right between Red […]

Escalante, Utah May 23-25, 2018 We drove a jaw-dropping section of Hwy 12 through a landscape with surprises around every curve, to our next site near the tiny town of Escalante. This camping area was right off the beginning of a dirt road named “50 Mile Wash”. We read that at the end of 50 […]