Our path to full-time RV travel was far from straightforward. We’ve tried part-time and full-time travel with various rigs since 2012. It’s now been four years since we last lived in a house and we can’t imagine going back. Here we share a candid account of what it’s like to travel full-time.
Our plates are full at the moment. Overflowing, in fact. Every morning I get up, look at my task manager, and determine with optimism what I hopefully can tackle and cross off for the day. At the moment, I feel like we’re barely keeping up. And so last week I turned down the opportunity to head a few hours east to camp with some of our closest friends. Seven of us, from opposite corners of...
Welcome back to Notes From The Road, a monthly recap of where we’ve been and what we’ve been up to over the last 30 days. And just like that, it’s July. June was a weird and busy month for us. Typically we would hook up our travel trailer and head into Colorado’s high country at the start of June to position ourselves closer to where our work commitments take place. This...
May is a transition month for us. It’s a time when we work to tame our wanderlust while simultaneously preparing for our business’s busy season. For me, that looks like a lot of time at my desk tending to administrative tasks and connecting with our couples to finalize their wedding day details. For Mark, that means tending to maintenance on our vehicles and getting our RV back...
Summer is upon us, and here in the West, that also means the start of wildfire season. Colorado has just experienced one of its driest winters on record, making wildfire precautions as important as they’ve ever been. Millions of people flock to Colorado to recreate every summer, but not everyone understands the severity of the wildfire risk. Since the majority of wildfires in Colorado are caused...
Hello and happy May! April can be a really unpredictable month for us on the road. It’s when we begin making our way back to Colorado, but the weather largely dictates our route and the speed at which we do so. We tend to take it a day at a time, letting the forecast decide if we need to hang longer in the desert (because it’s still cold in Colorado), haul butt to Colorado (because it’s getting...
Cooking is a cornerstone of our nomadic lifestyle. Mark and I love good food, but we aren’t fans of the steep price of eating out—and in the remote areas we inhabit, delivery isn’t even an option. While we prioritize quality meals, we avoid complication. Our goal is to minimize mess, reduce fuel consumption, and whenever possible, stick to one-pot recipes. The Learning Curve: From...
If you’ve ever wondered how we go about finding places to camp, our strategy may be different than what you would expect. When we first got our truck camper, we were entirely motivated by seeing cool sights that, over time, had been added to a mental list. Fourteen years later—and six years into living on the road full-time—seeing cool places is now a byproduct of how we go about finding places...
A month ago, I never would have guessed we’d be where we are now, tucked into a forest high in the mountains in Arizona. If you read the February edition of Notes From The Road, then you know our re-entry into truck camper living got off to a rocky start. I was seven weeks post-op from major surgery at the time, and my body wasn’t quite ready for the pace of life on the road. However, that all...
Hello everyone! As many of you know, our unconventional lifestyle is rooted in intentionality. Mark and I have long had a tendency to make choices that may go against the grain but instead align with our core values for a life well-lived. In that spirit, I’ve been doing some “digital decluttering” the last few months. While I love sharing the ins and outs of our life on the road...
After a short but sweet two-week stay in Baja, we decided to head back to the States. My body was telling me that it needed more time to rest and recover from surgery and that adventuring down Baja’s rough and remote backroads wasn’t in the cards for me this year. Mark and I are pretty good at rolling with the punches and pivoting when our wants and needs call for it, so we embraced the two...
