In May, 2007, we sold everything we owned, rented out our house,
and moved into a travel trailer to have the adventure of a lifetime. We
have been traveling the North American continent ever since. These
pages are a photo journal of our experiences. If you are planning a
similar adventure, enjoy pretty photos of fun places, or are curious to
find out what the fulltime RV lifestyle is all about, we hope this website
will serve as an inspiration.
Highlights of places we have visited are grouped on individual pages,
by state, and are accompanied by anecdotal stories. The Route
shows the chronological order of our adventures with links to each
area we have seen.
There are also pages describing our rigs and other equipment, including our solar setup and vent-free propane heater. The
fulltime RV lifestyle is unusual, so there are some pages related to it, including resources about other travelers that inspired us
before we left, and some thoughts about why we chose to live this way. There are some fun statistics from our first year and a half
of travel, and information about our favorite method of camping, boondocking. There is also some nuts-and-bolts info about living in
an RV full-time, a peek at our budget, and some tips & tricks we've learned along the way. "What's it like?" offers a play-by-play
view of our lives, describing all that happened in one month on the road.
Our first RV was a popup tent trailer. It was a blast. Every time we
took it on a trip we fell in love all over again -- with each other, with
the trailer, and with life. So we called it The Luvnest. For good luck,
we gave that name to our first fulltime travel trailer, and the name
stuck when we upgraded to our current fifth wheel.
Not only have our lives have moved in a new direction, drifting away
from our former, more conventional, daily patterns, but we have also
found ourselves wandering off the well-worn paths of other travelers.
So, when a friend sent me a heartfelt email entitled, "The Road Less
Traveled" (after he had read my notes about why we are pursuing
this dream), it seemed appropriate to adapt that phrase for the top of
this web page.
The reflections that conclude Robert Frost's famous poem, written so
many years ago, ring true for us today:
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
Here are a few more of our favorite photos...