We are settled in Anthem, Arizona, for the week and living with the Walter family. Today’s adventure took us to the enormous town park for a multi-hour Veterans Day ceremony. Anthem had a local choral and orchestral group from Phoenix, videos from the USS Nimitz, a flyover of F-35s, and a guest speaker who not […]
For the past two weeks we have been surrounded by 23 other RV families. We all met up in Yuma, Arizona, for four days of preparation before hitting the road in a giant caravan to San Felipe, Baja, Mexico. The group we joined this year, Fulltime Families, put on events throughout the day. We had
While staying in Baja we took an opportunity to explore La Valle de Los Gigantes. This area outside our town of San Felipe is known as being the only area where the Cardón cacti grow. The Cardón cacti are related to Saguaros, but grow much larger. We had a great time wandering through the giants
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On Wednesday we started driving south to meet up with 23 other full-time RV families. We had 1400 miles to drive in 4.5 days. Our plan was to stop at various Harvest Host locations for our overnight stays. Chris was confident that our battery power would last for the transit. We only need power to
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This morning as we were packing up to depart our overnight stay, one of the landing gear legs failed. It would no longer hold weight or retract into the RV. I happened to still be inside the RV at the time and quickly exited and moved away from the rig in case it fell over.
We left the RV for a while to head back East and see our families. We also lined up the trip to coincide with our 20 year Coast Guard Academy reunion. We have been anticipating our 20 year reunion for almost the past 20 years. It is the first time that you will see people
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Twenty years ago, Chris and I fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. It is especially easy to love it when the sun is shining and the weather is warm! We are trying our hand at “mooch docking” at our friend’s house. We first met Ariel and Kristen in Hawaii and as luck would have
Today we completed the final stretch of our planned retirement trip. This doesn’t mean that we are done traveling, just that we are slowing down and won’t be moving through places as fast. We left the cute little town of Cle Elum, Washington (burial place of Douglas Monroe for you Coastie trivia/history fans) and headed
Visiting the Pacific Northwest has been like coming home for us in many ways. It was the first place we lived as adults out on our own, and the first place we put down some roots and made adult lasting memories. While here I made my first civilian AND military spouse friend, Shon. I didn’t
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It is September, so that means that kids are back in school all over. This is the time homeschoolers enjoy field trips! We headed to the WA side of the Bonneville Lock & Dam to learn how the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) is using the Columbia River to generate power for the area. The
