When we set off over 8 years ago, we did a lot of remote camping in the boonies. A lot. For most of our first four years on the road in tiny travel trailers, we were boondocking pretty much off-grid all the time. We had some darn amazing experiences. In the past couple months we’ve […]
Our Travels
Our 12 Favorite Campsites of 2014
This year, we stayed in 70 different locations (yes, I counted.). And pretty much every single one of them had something special about them worth remarking on. When we sat down this year to pick our favorites, it was brutally difficult. Each spot we stopped at brings back a special memory. People we were visiting or traveling […]
Soaking in the Desert
We’re wrapping up our extended stay in Desert Hot Springs at Sam’s Family Spa, and will soon be moving on. And it’s been a marvelous nearly month here. At $540 for a monthly spot (plus electric), it’s absolutely indulgent. Compared to the weekly and daily rates, it’s quite a deal and we don’t feel bad […]
Keeping It Clean in Desert Hot Springs
As much as we love being in motion, constantly changing our location and adventures – we also look forward to our extended stays of a few weeks in one location. When we arrived to Desert Hot Springs a little over a week ago, we had a long list of projects we wanted to tackle. Amongst […]
Birthday Week on the Road (an Untraditional Nomadic Thanksgiving)
For the past many years, Chris and I have headed back east for holidays with the family. While we love our families, and spending time with them – we wanted to experience a different winter and decided to stick around the desert southwest this year. We’ve been caravanning with our WheelingIt buddies the past month, and discovered that both […]
Wrapping up Highway 395 – Lone Pine and Trona Pinnacles
We quite reluctantly left our awesome boondocking spot overlooking Bishop, CA. We could have easily enjoyed a few more days perched there, but cooler weather was keeping us reminded that we needed to keep pace heading south. Paul had an Instagram friend waiting to meet up with us all in Lone Pine at the Tuttle […]
Continuing Down Hwy 395 – Mammoth Lakes and Bishop
We left Washoe Lake State Park, with Paul and Nina in the lead to scout out ahead of us some options they hadn’t been to before for our next stop down Highway 395. We got a text message from them along the way that simply said ‘How about a sunset hot spring soak?’ Like, who’s […]
To the Desert – Washoe Lake State Park
Last Tuesday, Chris picked me up at the Reno airport after my solo trip to Florida and whisked me away to our new location. I gotta say, this flying home to a new location than I left from is a bit jarring to the senses. When I left, we were parked in humid and rainy […]
A Special Solo Trip: Commisioning of the USS Tim VeArd
It’s very rare that Chris and I travel independently these days. But once we got to Eugene our paths would diverge for a few days. You may recall that my father’s submarine veterans organization honored him by naming the 23′ model submarine (caution, that post may cause tears) they were building as a parade float after him. […]
Quick Catch Up: Portland & Eugene
Whew. The past couple of weeks have been crazy busy for us – lots going on, lots of new friends, lots of adventure – including some solo trips for each of us and some new awesome upgrades to the bus. But before we get to the really fun stuff, we need to catch up on […]
