Tag: nature
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A Month in DC: Staying Put, Squirrels, and Snowy Adventures
This past month (November), we traded our six-wheeled home for a stationary life, settling in with some of our favorite people in Washington, DC. It was a refreshing change to stay in one place for a while, getting to know the area and enjoying quality time with family. The girls absolutely loved spending time with…
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On The Road Again: Racing Time, Heat and Corn
As July draws to a close, we’re into full drive mode as we make significant headway across the Northern Plains. Not only are we on a time crunch to catch our flight to the UK in September but we are racing across the country to catch Metallica in Minneapolis! This post isn’t the most exciting…
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A Two-Parter: Mountains, Beavers and Raspberries
In this post, we bring you a special two-parter; covering two wonderful weeks where we desperately tried to escape, enjoy and entertain two toddlers in this crazy summer heat. Part 1: Swimming, Beaver Hunts, and Mountain Views As we continued our Canadian adventures we arrived at a beautiful RV park in Fernie. A European style…
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Crossing Borders: From Glacier to Canada, Fries to Poutine
Wow, look at me go, two posts in two days! As we close out our week of adventuring in Glacier, we’ve now crossed the border into the great land of Canada! Leaving Glacier was a mix of excitement and nerves. We had to navigate a specific route to reach one of the border crossings, and…
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Glacier National Park: Our Holiday During Our… Holiday?
We arrived excited to explore a new National Park, and with Alice out of office for the week, we dove straight in. We bought maps, grabbed info sheets, and planned out our trip. We were very much looking forward to the week ahead, despite a heatwave blanketing the US (our days were looking to average…
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Pacific Northwest Tales: From Healing Wounds to Heartfelt Adventures
Our Pacific Northwest adventure began as we left sunny California, nursing our healing injuries and eager to make serious progress on our journey. We decided to skip our planned stop and embraced off-grid life with our new solar panels. We found ourselves in a huge car park in the mountains, a winter sno-park that in…
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Pine-Covered Peaks to Dusty Deserts: Our Boondocking Travel Week
This week we were fully committed to boondocking, living off solar power and gallons of stored water and food. We embarked on a journey that took us through rugged deserts and pine-covered mountains, through sand dunes and 20ft tall cacti, all in pursuit of getting to Southern California as quickly as possible. As expected a…