We just wrapped up two weeks in THE Ohio state and, well we experienced our toughest time thus far. As Nikki mentioned in the last blog, she has been challenged with some physical ailments, both of which continued to get worse. We were struggling to figure out if it was time to go into a…

Greetings from Amish Country in Ohio… The fall colors have been doing their thing these last several days since leaving the Dakotas.  The past two weeks we have spent time in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and now in Ohio.  It is a race to the east to beat out the cold weather.  Temperatures dipped below freezing…

Oh the places you’ll go! One year ago, Nikki and I did a drill at a remarkable couples event in Bozeman, MT (www.thestationfoundation.org) in which we depicted three ‘stories’ for our lives over the next 5 years. The point was to create possible scenarios for our future and help us determine the next steps in…

As we go about our travels, we get asked a lot of the same questions.  One of the most popular is, “Where are you looking forward to going the most?”  My response is always Glacier National Park.  If any of you are avid hikers or campers you probably know of its infamy.  All I knew…

I’m sitting underneath a family of spruce trees, leaves rustling as the wind gently moves. Hope, our RV, is right beside me as I download my thoughts into words. We’re on the move again and it’s been, as you would expect, both crazy and beautiful. The crazy sometimes overwhelms you if you aren’t careful, if…

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…