After 11 months of being on the road, we decided to call it quits for a while and return to normal life. At least insofar as that’s possible these days. Since Erika and I have had a chance to visit a fair bit of the US this year we tried to decide where we wanted…
Whew, what a year! It was an incredibly unexpected year for us like most folks, but we still managed to visit 7 countries, and 30 US states. It wasn’t quite what we had hoped when we set out last January, but I wouldn’t have wanted to spend 2020 any other way. The bumps in the…
Daniel and I were roadtripping for about six months. Here are some of our tips and suggestions for making a long car journey comfortable and fun: 1. Come up with a plan for food. If you don’t, you’ll find yourself eating from the McDonald’s dollar menu every day. You should always pack some kind of…
California is a state shaped like a sock. In the toe is desert: the Mojave and Death Valley. From the “ball” of the foot, just above LA, up to almost the end of the ankle, the central valley runs through the middle of the state. This area is highly agricultural, growing half of the fruit,…
Daniel and I had been on the road for a pretty long time. We’ve been traveling since the start of the year and road tripping for more than five months. It was after we drove back from Texas that Daniel let me know that he was getting ready to get off the road and settle…
San Antonio After spending a couple of days in Dallas with Daniel’s parents, we drove to San Antonio for a few days. Daniel lived in San Antonio for five years while he worked for USAA after college, and he was excited to show me the city. One thing I’d noticed about San Antonio is that…
Back before the pandemic hit both my sister and Daniel’s sister had planned weddings for this summer. Rebekah, Daniel’s sister, had set hers for early June, and my sister had planned hers for late July. As we laid out a rough schedule at the start of our trip, Daniel and I figured that we would…
Once we left Seattle, Daniel and I rented a small house in Ventura, California for about three weeks. After nearly three months on the road it was really nice to stay in one place for a while. Ventura is only about thirty minutes from where my parents live, so we were able to spend time…
While Daniel and I were in Elk City the shop where we’d left our car after our incident with the rock called us to let us know that it was totaled. Honestly, I was pretty surprised/disbelieving of this. We had been pretty sure that the only damage was to the oil pan, which we’d hoped…
Yellowstone With our car in a shop, Daniel and I took a rental into Yellowstone. I’d never visited the park before, and I was excited to see it. I was surprised at how large Yellowstone is. Just driving around it would take four or five hours. As we neared the park entrance the sparse Wyoming…