What makes a home a home? A city? Is it a physical structure? Is it the people that dwell in the structure? Or is it both? We have been in Boise, ID since August 5th, and so this has been by far the longest we’ve stayed in one spot.  The first week we were here…

           I remember that August 13 years ago.  We were newlyweds with an upcoming deployment in the Navy.  I still didn’t have a teaching job.   I had just graduated with my Master’s in Deaf education and so my options were limited.  Then two weeks before school started it all happened. …

For those of you not fortunate enough to get the Chris Farley reference it’s worth the few minutes on You Tube to watch. We’ve been camped out here for a few weeks, parked along the wonderful Boise River. I can hear the crickets and frogs right now, and we wake up to the sound of…

It’s funny, Nikki and I were JUST talking about how we get upset when our plans, no matter how big or small, get interrupted… We had driven our vehicle for hundreds of miles, climbed numerous peaks, towing our RV trailer along the way with no issue. We went in to look at some bikes for…

Well, we’re sitting here in Boise, finally have left the West Coast and now moving inland. The Pacific Northwest lived up to the hype, green everywhere. Apparently it rains a lot, but that is probably just a rumor because the weather was great. Our site was in a Norwegian founded town known as Poulsbo, which…

Today we took the Ferry to Seattle which confused the heck out of the kids. They couldn’t believe we were driving our truck onto the boat. We took a trip around the downtown area to see Pike’s Market, the space needle, and get some tasty Japanese-Latin fusion (Ally had a crazy tempura craving). When it…