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 […]
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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 […]
We’ve always wanted to experience the spring migration of songbirds along the Gulf Coast. Eric was interested in adding new species to his life list. I was fascinated by tales of multitudes of brightly colored birds dotting the landscape like Easter eggs. During the first week of April, our wish came true. We stayed for […]
Inaively thought that given a year to travel, we would never feel rushed. But the first week of November, in the middle of Texas, we looked at each other and said, “We need to get rolling.” We had reservations for the Keys starting mid-November, but first, we wanted to spend a week with my folks […]
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