Since 2020 we’ve been full-time nomads. We spend part of the year roaming the mountain west in our 21′ travel trailer and the other part overlanding in Mexico in our truck camper. These are stories from our everyday life on the road.
Welcome 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. I’m very happy to report that this edition of our monthly digest is coming to you from a beautiful beach in Baja. While we’ve spent our winters in Mexico for the last four years, 2026 got off to a very different start. The need for major surgery—which took place on the last...
2025 was a heck of a year for us. After five years of slow-moving, full-time RV living, we picked up the pace and covered more ground than ever before. Back in March, I realized we were on track to sleep in far more places than any other year, and so I began logging every campsite out of curiosity. By December 31st, we had slept in 99 different locations in 2025. If I had to guess, I’d say that’s...
Welcome 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. This edition of Notes From The Road is coming to you from an unlikely place, given that it’s December. After spending five weeks in Arizona, yesterday we returned to Colorado. As many of you know, December is typically when we head south of the border for several months of...
November felt like an unusually domestic month for us. There was lots of working and cooking and going out to dinner with friends and getting cozy on the couch to watch a good show. (What is it about the shorter, colder days that seem to grant permission for a good tv binge session?) We savored every bit of it knowing that soon enough our wheels would be turning once again and...
October was a month of slowing down for us. After having slept in eighty different locations this year, it feels delightful to have spent the last two whole weeks lying low at our property. We absolutely love living a life of perpetual movement but even those of us with incurable wanderlust find the need from time to time to be still. Over the years we’ve found that taking the...
Hello dear readers and welcome back to another edition of Notes From The Road. This monthly practice of reflecting on where we’ve been over the last 30 days is a tangible reminder of just how fast time goes by. And that sentiment feels like it’s never been truer than in September. All of a sudden it’s fall, the temps are dropping, the leaves are turning, and the days are getting...
It’s time to pack up and move on today, but to where? In ten days, we need to be in Crested Butte, but between now and then, we have the freedom to roam. Had you asked me a week ago where we would head today, I would have enthusiastically answered something like Lake City or the San Juans. I was excited to explore a corner of Colorado that we don’t know as well as the rest...
Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado // After four nights being parked in a city surrounded by light and noise, it feels eerily dark and quiet overnight. At one point, I wake up in the night feeling entirely discombobulated. Where am I? It takes a moment to orient myself and remember where we relocated to. This is a common experience I have, especially when I’m working on...
Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado // We’re both zombies this morning after four straight days of Overland Expo. Any remaining campers are supposed to be off the premises by 11am but I can tell none of us are moving fast. For our last night, we moved the truck to be closer to friends and ended up parked right next to the largest tent at the show. It was the hub of the...
Overland Expo, Loveland, Colorado // It’s the last day of Overland Expo, and last-day energy is in the air. Many camps around us are breaking down, packing up, and departing this morning. Every fellow instructor we cross paths with is just as tired as we are. However, the show is still on from 9 a.m. – 3pm and our most detailed presentation is yet to come. At 10am...
