Based on the intensity of the political posts I’ve seen on Facebook and Twitter, I’m glad I’ve been largely disconnected from mass media this year and avoided the incessant political commercials on television and radio. My view of the web and social media streams are still covered with Trump and Clinton banner ads, but I […]
Featured on Keep Your Daydream Travel Podcast
We had the great pleasure to be featured on the popular travel podcast. You can listen to the episode at Keep Your Daydream. Keep Your Daydream weekly podcasts are stories of inspiration helping listeners start “someday” today! We listened to Keep Your Daydream before we left on our adventure, and we got to meet Tricia, […]
I Got a Speeding Ticket
I once wrote that I lived in the slow lane when driving the Airstream. That’s still true. But it turns out that without the trailer, I’m still the aggressive driver I always was. After a little over 11,000 miles driving America’s highways, I got a speeding ticket. I got nabbed crossing the border in Colorado […]
Airstream Belly Skin Repairs on the Road
RVs are rolling earthquakes. We drag our Airstream hundreds of miles each week on the highways and inevitably a few miles on dirt roads. It bounces, bangs, and shutters behind our Tahoe. Screws are often rattling loose and falling to the floor. We find one or two scattered around about each time we move to […]
Property Management While Traveling Put to the Test
Well, it has happened, and it happened much sooner than I thought. One of the tenants in our rental properties back home had a legit emergency. In fact, it was the tenant in our home. The hot water heater pressure release valve spewed water all over the floor. We were fortunate that the hot water […]
How to manage rental property while traveling full-time?
We’ve talked about our real estate investment strategy and why we rent our home while traveling in the past, and here we are finally addressing how we manage those properties while on an adventure. When not traveling, we manage our own rental properties. We place the tenants, take the calls, and make repairs as needed. […]
A Virus: The Uninvited Visitor at Santee State Park, SC
The day we left on our trip, I was filled with nerves and lots of emotions. I was in pretty good spirits in the car. Wilson napped! Jane behaved well, and we got to our destination easily. “We’ve got this!” I thought. The blissful overconfidence was my parenting fail. Never get cocky!!! You WILL be […]