Conconully, WA September 2-5 Labor Day weekend was one of the first times in a long time that we felt it pertinent to have reservations somewhere. Since we’d never explored North Central Washington as thoroughly as we’d like to, we found a state park with an opening for a stay over the long, busy weekend. […]

Spokane, WA August 26-29 We rolled into the Washington State campground north of Spokane in the early evening. It had been a long day, and it already felt like a lifetime to happened since we left Glacier that morning. Tire change on the interstate. Visit to Les Schwab. More stops that usual including one hunt […]

Interstate 90 West from Montana to Idaho August 26 There is maybe no other day on our entire adventure so far that so completely captured the highs and lows of RV life better than this day. The video below was taken at noon as we drove west on I-90 into Idaho, marking our 48th state […]

Glacier National Park August 11-26   We had heard so many reviews, in particular those from other full-time RV’ers, that this was the crowning jewel of the National Parks and was their favorite place to explore.  The one misconception that all of this gave me was that I didn’t think it would be crowded.  I […]

Yellowstone National Park Bozeman,Montana August 7-11 Because we had been to Yellowstone National Park before, and because everything that we read described insane crowds during the summer months, we decided not to make it a major destination on our trip. In fact, Brad voted to skip it all together. But since it was adjacent to […]

Tetons National Park August 1-7   After traveling for weeks across the Great Plains (the US government changed its name on maps from the “Great American Desert” in 1860 to better persuade people to move there), the giant and abrupt Teton range was a welcome, if not shocking, sight. I have always heard amazing things […]

Casper, Wyoming July 27-August 1 After a couple of nights of dry camping we learned 2 things about our trailer: our water pump needed some attention before we could go off-grid for a week in the Tetons, and our 6 year old batteries were leaking battery acid through the floor of our forward compartment onto […]

As the moon passes in front of the sun on Monday and everyone in America (except for the security guards at the bank, hopefully) looks up to see this special moment, we will also be celebrating another once-in-a-lifetime kind of moment…1 year in the RV! On this day 1 year ago we were hanging on […]

Devils Tower National Monument July 25-27 We spent a few days camped at Devils Tower, our nation’s 1st National Monument. We were “welcomed” to the campground by a camp host who seemed to revel in the authority that the position afforded. As we pulled our camper into the space he approached in his “World’s Greatest […]

Hermosa, South Dakota Badlands National Park, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monument, Custer State Park July 21-24   As our route has taken us across the US in a path that somewhat follows America’s westward expansion, I feel forced to hold two truths in tension: our founding fathers set forth to establish what could possibly be […]

Monowi, Nebraska July 18 In the spring when we were discussing with the girls the fact that we would be visiting 2 of the nation’s 3 biggest cities this year, Sunny had an interesting question: what’s the smallest city in the country? This led to a fun google search about the towns in the United […]

De Smet, South Dakota July 15 The girls and I spent one very, very hot afternoon exploring one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical sites in De Smet, SD. We had enjoyed reading Little House on the Prairie around the time we moved into the RV, so the girls were really excited to see where […]

Mitchell, South Dakota July 14-21   We drove for 4.5 hours to get from our campground in North Dakota to our next destination in South Dakota, and the road only curved once. The vistas were miles and miles of corn fields and endless hay bales. But for the most part the roads were smooth and […]

Lake Ashtabula, North Dakota July 11-14 I liked our campsite in North Dakota. It was maybe my favorite spot ever. We stayed midweek, so we nearly had the campground to ourselves. Our site was right next to the swimming beach and playground, where we swam in the water, played in the sand, and watched giant […]

Lake Winnibigoshish, Minnesota July 9-11 We found a COE campground near Lake Winnibigoshish with no amenities and only electric hookups, but it was inexpensive and nestled in the forest, so it seemed perfect. As we drove through the green, wooded campground dappled with sunlight, we had our pick of the mostly empty campsites. The only […]

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin July 1-6 Superior, Wisconsin July 6-9 As we planned our route through the midwestern and northern states a few days ahead of time (oh, how our processes have changed since we began) we realized that we would be crossing paths with Brad’s North Carolinian cousins on their summer vacation in Wisconsin. Cousin […]

Dubuque, Iowa June 28 – July 1 We drove miles and miles of straight, flat Illinois State highways, through a few thunder showers, watching occasional lightning bolts light up the skies above endless fields of young corn stalks, to finally cross the Mississippi River on a high narrow bridge into the city of Dubuque, Iowa […]