After hundreds of miles of traveling the West Coast, we capped off our summer by attending Burning Man! What is Burning Man? It's hard to capture its essence in words. Burning man is an annual gathering that takes place in a remote corner of the NW Nevada desert at a place called Black Rock City. … Continue reading Travelogue: The Bus Goes to Burning Man
2017 Summer Recap Part Three In other posts on this blog, I've talked about how we try to use our bus' wheels to avoid extreme temperatures, so many of you may be wondering why in the hell we decided to drive back to Texas in the middle of July. Well, we were invited to attend … Continue reading Travelogue: From There to Texas
2017 Summer Recap: Part 2 - July Washington Sequim, WA Where we stayed: Dungeness Recreation Area Washington has a reputation for having pervasively dreary weather, but Sequim goes a long way towards undermining this notion. Situated in the Olympic Rain Shadow, Sequim bucks the rainy trend and has a significantly drier and sunnier climate the … Continue reading Travelogue: Washington State
We made it to California! Why are we so excited about this? When we left Texas for the first time back in June of 2016, this was our intended destination, but then we realized our tires (and the rest of us) would probably melt while crossing I-10 in the summer heat long before ever making … Continue reading Travelogue: Mojave National Preserve – Cima, CA
We spent the last week of March visiting the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It's truly an amazing location that draws tourists in the millions for good reason. To see the canyon is to witness the incredibly formative and enduring power of nature. Unfortunately, visiting Grand Canyon National Park was also 160 miles of … Continue reading Travelogue: Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
We've logged just over 11,000 miles in our bus now. It's been a heck of a ride, and one that we can't wait to continue. When we first set out on our journey, we weren't quite sure how to find campsites and places to stay in our bus. We've since found a wealth of online … Continue reading Finding Campsites & Places to Stay
Our original intentions in visiting New Mexico were to spend time in Santa Fe & Albuquerque, but January didn't exactly bring the best weather to the northern half of the state. Instead, we opted to spend some time in the southwestern corner in an effort to bypass some of the worst winter weather. We Built … Continue reading Travelogue: City of Rocks, NM
Visiting White Sands National Monument was at the top of our list of things to do while in southern New Mexico. It's such an incredible, ethereally beautiful landscape and we couldn't wait to take our bus there! Oliver Lee & Frenchy We decided to stay at Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, located about 20 miles … Continue reading Travelogue: White Sands, NM
In addition to visiting the Outer Banks, both Ryan and I had wanted to visit North Carolina in order to see members of our extended families that reside in the Tarheel state. We each have cousins that live in Raleigh and Charlotte so we decided to make stops in each city to visit them. Driving … Continue reading Travelogue: November & December
Though our ten day Canadian road trip was magical, all good things must, alas, come to an end. But not a sad one, because how could visiting good friends in northern Vermont not be a happy ending to our Canadian sojourn? Re-Entering the U.S. As mentioned in my previous post, crossing the border into Ontario … Continue reading Travelogue: Vermont
We Got Schooled 