Travel

‘This trip is giving me Grand Canyon vibes’ aka when travel plans go awry

My husband, Quent, and I are currently on a 2-week RV road trip from Colorado to Texas to view the April 8 total solar eclipse. We planned this trip months ago — a carefully detailed itinerary to ensure we had campgrounds to stay at (and dear friends to stay with!) when hundreds of thousands of […]

Easing into life – not vacation – in Chacala, Mexico

Quent and I continue to try to figure out where we might want to winter for months at a time — hoping to find our perfect warm place to avoid Colorado winters in the future. We sampled Thailand for nearly four weeks this fall (too far — as much as Quent loved the heat and […]

So relaxed in San Pancho — and charmed by Chacala

As Quent and I continue our quest to figure out a warm-weather destination where we’d like to land for several weeks or a couple months in order to spend as little time in snow for the rest of our lives, I won’t bury the lede: San Pancho is absolutely a contender. With some caveats. San […]

Settling into Sayulita

I’m drafting this blog post while seated outdoors at a café in Sayulita, Mexico, an oceanfront town about 25 miles northwest of Puerto Vallarta. I’m sipping my café americano, and I’m about to dig into my egg white/spinach/avocado/feta on an English muffin. All the other patrons are speaking English — a young couple just walked […]

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? […]