Below is our route from July 1 through October 31, 2016, when we came off the road after 2-1/2 years of full-time living in Charley, our motor home. Each stop on the map is an overnight (one or many nights) stop for us. We spent the last leg of our journey predominantly in the Great …
Below is our route from January 1 through June 30, 2016. Each stop on the map is an overnight (one or many nights) stop for us. We began the year in Toad, our Subaru, driving from Chicago where we saw friends and family members for the holidays back down to San Antonio where we left …
Our third half-year on the road… below is our route from July 1 through December 31, 2015. Each stop on the map is an overnight (one or many nights) stop for us. We began 2H15 up in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington so we could launch from Seattle and head up to Alaska where we spent …
Below is the route we took from January 1 through June 30, 2015. Each stop on the map is an overnight (one or many nights) stop for us. We rang in 2015 in Florida and figured this was a good time time to visit one of the more difficult parks to reach, Virgin Islands NP …
Our first 7 months on the road When we “launched” from our former home in Chicago back on June 1, 2014, we had a rough plan to visit the Midwest first, make our way over to New England by the fall, then down to Florida for a family wedding in December. We pretty much followed …
The first thing most people ask us when we tell them what we’re doing is “do you have an itinerary?” Well, yes, we do… for the first year anyway. With a goal of visiting all 59 of the national parks and whatever other national park areas we come close to (there are 401 national park …
So here we are in early 2014 making plans to sell our condo and put everything we own into storage for a couple of years… we’re selling our current SUV [it’s too heavy] and buying a new Subaru Crosstrek as it is available in a manual transmission model which is required for towing behind an …
In the spring of 2013, we bought a 30-foot RV which we named Charley, and after a couple of “shake down cruises” over the summer [Fred’s U.S. Navy term for these trial run camping trips; Laura viewed them as “training wheels camping trips”] we declared ourselves ready, more like chompin’ at the bit, to become …
We married in January of 2012, got retirement buyouts from our respective employers in August 2012 and went to Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Grand Canyon National Parks to celebrate marriage and retirement. And then we began earnestly planning a two-year road trip to see the rest of the National Parks — 10 down; 49 to …
