August 14, 2016 After Glacier I was poised to be impressed with nothing else. That is until I told my children Yellowstone National Park used to have a volcano but it was no longer active. I mean that makes sense right? It’s Wyoming for heavens sake, not Hawaii. Correction. We had a lot to learn….
August 12, 2016 As we drove through South Dakota and Montana all I could think is fill up now and cross our fingers nothing happens between here and Glacier because the vultures will find us before anyone else does. I was struck by the endless, empty miles and pretty sure any moment a cowboy would…
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August 10, 2016 South Dakota… Who knew? Who knew this would be a place we would fall in love with, a place to which we’d feel so connected, and have such a desire to return. Besides the obvious, Mount Rushmore, I had only a vast expanse of nothingness which I envisioned was South Dakota. And…
August 10, 2016 The words have been spoken… “I do NOT like this RV trip!” The speaker of such words shall remain nameless, but said speaker may or may not have just lost their dessert for injury to a sibling. We may be cracking. You know how you need a vacation after your vacation? I…
June 27, 2016 Two weeks in and of this I am sure… – The West family is truly learning what it means to conserve water. – We are slowly being poisoned by the smell of the black tank. – I love everything about being in nature as long as it doesn’t touch me. – No…
June 26, 2016 Fishing down by the lake with his Barbie rod – Shawn really needs an upgrade – and my phone pings. “Congrats! You’ve made it a full week on the road! Celebrate!” Cast. “Surely that’s wrong.” Cast. Reel. “Woah.” We are moving way too fast. We’ve been following the blogs of many full…
June 14, 2016 How is RV life? Well, day one… We ran the air for the first time and it smells like fish… enough said. The trip almost ended when a HUGE roach appeared above my head. I took out my kids, one of them may or may not have suffered harm, only to have…
May 18, 2016 There are to do lists scattered all over our home – on paper, on white boards, taped to exits – lest we forget the insurmountable tasks necessary in planning for a trip of this magnitude. I knew the lists were there, and I knew they were long, but while trying to work…
January 27, 2016 To buy or not to buy a new song on iTunes… This was the $1.99 question of the day when my husband reminded me we had just entered the frugal five. “The frugal five?” I asked. “Five months and counting until our departure,” he replied. Our family has decided to embark on…