2021 - Life Here & There

RV trip update: Highlights from NH to VA

Over the past couple weeks, we’ve traveled from New Hampshire to Virginia, visiting my childhood state, several new-to-us-destinations, and — the best part — meeting up with dear friends and family along the way. Here are just a few of the highlights. Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire We spent two nights at Bear Brook […]

RV travel: Not all sunshine and rainbows

It’s no secret I’m really enjoying traveling for weeks on end in our motorhome. I’ve gone on and on about why I dig it so much… and how much fun we’re having seeing parts of the country we’ve never been to before. But it’s not all fun all the time. Traveling by RV isn’t easy. […]

We’re two weeks in and happy on the road

As Quent and I sat on the upper outside deck of the ferry returning us to St. Ignace, Michigan, from Mackinac Island, I breathed a contented sigh of relief. I’d planned three key Midwest sightseeing adventures to kick off our 7-week RV road trip (after spending a long weekend with friends in Buena Vista, Colorado), […]

I’ll always love BB, but CC is one sexy RV

The plan was always to take BB the RV on another 7-week road trip out east at the end of this summer. After all, she did just great last year on our multi-state adventure. But her breakdown in June threw us for a loop. What if we had another big issue with the ol’ gal? […]

Last-minute plans sometimes reveal the best adventures

We got word BB the RV was (finally) fixed on Friday morning. “Should we go pick her up Saturday?” I asked my husband. “Sure,” he said. And that was that. Since we had no big Independence Day celebrations planned, and I really wanted BB back from the shop — it had taken nearly a month […]

She’s not BB, but Phoebe will do: On pivoting and finding solutions

I had just come off the massage table after a blissful treatment at Red Mountain Spa in St. George, Utah, and checked my phone for messages in the locker room. I got this: My husband Quent was about 4 hours from me, en route in BB the RV to pick me up in St. George […]

Winter escape to Zion National Park — in a pandemic

The plan was for my mom to fly from Palm Springs to Denver about a week prior to Christmas Day. My immediate family of four would lie low in the week before she arrived. Once she arrived, we’d basically not leave the house for 10 days and have a grand ol’ time baking, cooking, making […]

Year: 2021