RV Life

Visiting Arizona

This is a guest post by Sarah Walter. Aleah and Charlotte were best friends when both our families were stationed in DC. We have managed to maintain the friendship over miles and years. We currently live in Arizona, so we were happy to host the Blomshields as they pass through our beautiful adopted state. Charlotte […]

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Veterans Day

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

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A Mexican Rally

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

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Changes in Latitude

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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The Tripod

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.

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The PNW

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

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On a Boat!

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

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Friendships Over Time

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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The Pacific Lamprey

Lampreys are one of the first kinds of fish to evolve, first being found around 450 million years ago, and they have barely changed since then. There are a few different kinds of lamprey, but today I will tell you about pacific lampreys. Pacific lampreys are found around the Pacific Rim, as far south as

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