Leaving friends, family and community behind to hit the road is honestly, tough. As an introvert, I crave a few close deep connections over lots of lighter ones. And I value continuity and regular interaction. And I didn’t have much of that left in Florida when I met Chris. Much of my own community had […]
Chapters
Retrospective: 2008 – Scarcity vs Abundance
Hitting the road meant leaving my bubble, where my identity was rooted. I was now regularly meeting new amazing people across the country and constantly navigating new things. That should be exciting, right? My career, my social network, my place in the world was in transition. I had left my foundation behind. I had given […]
Retrospective: 2007 – Overcoming Obstacles
Chris had hit the road solo just a year prior in a tiny little travel trailer pulled by a Jeep (he just marked 16 years on the road). We met online just a couple months later, and we spent much of our time ‘dating’ by meeting up across the country and us trialing traveling together […]
New Internet Video, Blog Comments Are Back & General Updates
Last month, our host of this site since we started it way back in 2007 – DreamHost – moved us from our legacy server to a new one. The website went completely down in the process, but thankfully they were able to restore the content and most of the formatting. However, for reasons unexplained – […]
A Nomadic Fleet: Vintage Bus, Camper Van and Boat
As we approach our 16th year on the road, it seems we have built a nomadic fleet. And we’ve received a lot of questions on how it’s working out to manage a boat, a van and a bus. The quick answer – far better than we ever imagined. Before we left Zephyr behind in Arizona […]
Happy 5th Birthday, Y-Not! Boat Project Updates – Flooring, Composting Toilet & More
This week marks five years since we took ownership of Y-Not, our 1999 Bayliner 4788. Crazy how time flies! And what an incredible journey into the cruising lifestyle it has been! It’s been a few years since we’ve done a major update on boat improvements, projects and modifications we’ve done – so we thought this […]
Back to the Boat in Sanford, Wrapping up 6+ Months of Van Travel
We have arrived back to Sanford to Y-Not, and are getting settled back into boat life.. and boat projects! So before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s do a little re-cap of our last month of our extended van meandering. First, the video version: Xscapers New Years Eve & Bash We ended out […]
Quick RV Interior Tour of Zephyr, our 1961 GM 4106 Vintage Bus
Before we left Benson, we filmed a quick video tour of the interior of Zephyr since it’s been so long since we’ve shared much about our vintage bus conversion. So, here it is: If you’d prefer a photo walk-thru or want more information on the various projects we’ve done over the years, head on over […]
Exploring Around Benson, Arizona – Tombstone, Bisbee, Kartchner Caverns
We picked Benson, Arizona as our RV winter home base for many reasons – not the least of which is how much we love SKP Saguaro Co-Op RV Park. It’s a great place to leave Zephyr behind and rejoin up for winter adventures. Benson itself offers all of the basic amenities you might need in […]
Re-Covering our Flexsteel Motorhome Captain’s Seats in the Bus – Haloleather Fail
Now that we’re back to Zephyr at our winter home base in Benson, AZ – it was time to tackle a pretty major pending project we had left from our last visit. When got Zephyr out of storage in 2019, we were disappointed to discover that the our two front Flexsteel captains chairs were peeling. […]
