Most of what I show of the kids is wonderfully positive. But as you may know, I’m all for keeping it real. We have bad days. Our kids have bad days. Sure we try to stick to a schedule, feed them well and make sure they get plenty of rest. But they’re kids. They have […]
Alone Time
Many of my friends have asked me when and how I get “alone time”. I know this is more important to some people than it is to others. Before our trip I worked from home a couple days a week and drove to client sites, some 3 hours away, the other days of the week. […]
Jane: On Hiking.
Jane: Mom, are we going to hike like, every day of this trip? Me: Well there’s a lot to see and we want to see it. Don’t you like hiking? Jane: Yea but like, I really like projects. Me: Projects? Jane: Yes! You know when I was in school and they used to give me […]
Squirrel!
I’m not going to do this story justice. I’m sure it was one of those things that “you had to be there”. Plus I’m not the best story teller. But here goes… We spent one day in Zion biking to a series of small trails throughout the park. We did the Weeping Rock Trail. We […]
My biggest pet peeve about RV life
One of my biggest pet peeves about life in the RV is stuffing things, and the biggest stuffing menace is Katie. It’s a constant source of friction, albeit humorous friction, between us. Katie stuffs things into cabinets, and I come behind her to un-stuff and organize. Here’s what I mean: Katie stuffs things in bins […]
Home Sweet Home
Is there anything better than getting to spend some time with your mom and dad? I don’t think so. After all, that’s one of the reasons we’re taking this trip! We want Jane and Wilson to spend a whole year with us. While we were in Florida I was able to do just that. My […]
Meeting other traveling families along the journey
There are many families with children traveling the country full-time in an RV. I don’t know how many families, but more that I expected when I first started looking around for them. There are also a number of families traveling in Airstreams, which is kind of subculture within the full-time RV community. We met one […]
The Realities of Bathtime in an RV
We feel it’s important to keep some consistency in our kids’ daily life to ease the transition to life in an RV and on the road. With this in mind, we’re trying our best to maintain our kids’ typical nighttime routine, but the realities of the RV make it difficult to keep the rituals entirely […]