Just for fun, Eric and I have been looking at photos from our last year’s travels and playing, “What was your favorite (campground, hike, paddle, bird sighting, café, etc.…)?” On these cold, long winter days, I look at photos of us kayaking the wild rivers in Florida, hiking through meadows of wildflowers in the North […]
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We went for our daily walk today in the snow. It’s beautiful and treacherous. Eric needs to walk every day as part of his recovery (and I need to walk for my sanity), but we can’t risk him slipping and falling. It will take at least two months for the bones in his sternum to […]
On the morning of December 5th, Eric underwent open-heart surgery and a triple bypass. As he told the surgeon, this experience was not on his bucket list. Nor mine. Needless to say, this has been the most intense month of our lives. All things considered, Eric is doing remarkably well. He’s now walking 30 minutes […]
Every so often, I’ve wondered how it will feel when we decide to stop traveling fulltime. I hope I’m not going to feel as lost as I’ve been feeling the past few weeks. Other than a two-week trip to Portland in October, we’ve been parked in our hometown of Ashland since mid-September. Our original plan […]
As of mid-June, we’ve been on the road for three years full-time. Our blog is lagging behind, but before life gets too much more away from me, I want to share a few thoughts about how it’s going. I’m writing this from the sofa, where I’m propped up with pillows and heat packs, anti-inflammatories and […]
We first visited Snow Canyon about 15 years ago while on a trip to nearby Zion National Park. All these years, we’ve planned to return—and finally did, in mid-May. We found it just as enchanting the second time around. We hiked through stands of blooming yucca, admiring the magnificent red cliffs of Navajo sandstone surrounding […]
We’ve been talking for a long time about slowing down our travels. In a couple of months, we’ll have been on the road fulltime for three years. Since we pulled out of our hometown of Ashland, Oregon in June of 2013, we’ve put 52,000 miles on our truck. At least half of that has been […]
We don’t like one-night stands. They’re too much trouble for too little return. But sometimes, we just have to do it. I’m talking about our travels, of course. (You knew that, right?) Everyone who travels finds his or her unique pace. We’ve met people who stay a month or longer everywhere they go. (The longer […]
Our friend Joe recently asked, “So, how will you know when you’re done?” It was a very good question. Eric and I had a heart-to-heart conversation that night. “How will we know when we’re done?” I asked him. “I don’t know. How do you think we’ll know when we’re done?” he asked in return. We looked […]
People often assume that traveling fulltime is one big long vacation. There are absolutely wonderful aspects to this lifestyle—the opportunity to travel at will, the luxury of time for in-depth exploration, the excitement of discovering new places. There are moments of magic and serendipity that somehow seem easier to recognize when traveling, perhaps because everything […]
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