Travel plans: 2020

2020:  After spending the 2019 summer in Virginia’s heat and humidity, we’ve decided we want to travel in summer 2020. We are heading back to the Mountain Time Zone. We have two trips planned. We deliberated on whether or not to travel in the time of...
Clipping Our Wings: An East Coast House

Clipping Our Wings: An East Coast House

This post is overdue as I have not wanted to put it in writing, doing so makes it more concrete. But, it is time to publicly share that our current full time RV journey is nearing an end and our wings are being clipped. We have loved (almost) everything about living...
First Year Full-time RV’ing: He Said/She Said

First Year Full-time RV’ing: He Said/She Said

He Said (by Mike) It’s that time of the year! Yes, we’ve been full time for one year now and figured we’d take a moment to reflect on how it’s going. As a numbers guy, I’ll start with some stats about the past year: 15,500 miles driven on the Newmar Essex 16,250 miles...
Toad Tire Trouble

Toad Tire Trouble

“How the hell did you do that?!”, was a question I heard 3 times from 3 different people at 3 different shops. To be fair, it was a good question. It’s not every day a guy shows up with brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee aluminum wheel that is completely destroyed, with...
Slingshot, Sun, and Sanibel

Slingshot, Sun, and Sanibel

Fort Myers, FL – While staying at the Naples Motorcoach Resort, Karla saw an ad for Gulfcoast Slingshot Rental’s half day rental of something called a Polaris Slingshot, and figured it would be fun. The Polaris Slingshot is an odd hybrid between a car and...
Vehicle Crash Reflections

Vehicle Crash Reflections

Last Thursday we stopped in Mountain Home Idaho to fuel at the Pilot truck stop shortly before 10:00pm. We were planning to park and eat dinner, but there weren’t any open spaces so we got back onto Interstate 84 heading eastbound. Less than 15 minutes later we saw...