Since last fall’s announcement that we’ve decided to stay-put in Colorado for a while, we’ve been pretty busy. First and foremost, I (Justine) have returned to a full-time office job while Ryan has also increased his remote work hours back up to a full-time level. Outside of work we’ve made time to explore the Front … Continue reading What Are We Doing Now?
Dear blog readers, we have something very big to share with you: After nearly two years of full-time travel, we've officially settled down again! Wait, what? The entire process of converting our bus into a comfortable home as well as the experience of living, working, and traveling on it full-time has been fantastic for us. … Continue reading BIG NEWS: We’re Settling Down
After hundreds of miles of traveling the West Coast, we capped off our exciting summer by fulfilling a long-standing desire to attend Burning Man! What the Heck is Burning Man? For anyone unfamiliar with this unique event, it's hard to capture its essence in words, but I'll do my best to give you the most … 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
Yikes! We've clearly fallen off of the wagon when it comes to regularly updating our travelogues . This is partly the result of me working more hours during the week, us logging a lot more miles behind the wheel, and spending most of our free time exploring the places we visit. Excuses aside, I'll spend … Continue reading Travelogue: The Golden State Part II
Holy Cow! We're officially over a month behind on our travelogue. For the handful of people out there who read our blog regularly (Hello to our respective family members!), we're very sorry for not keeping the account of our travels up to date. We'll do our best to remedy that by covering a lot of … Continue reading Travelogue: The Golden State Part I
It can be easy to fall into the trap of over romanticizing bus life, or any other form of full-time travel for that matter. While the general tone of our blog is positive, we don't want to give a false impression that our life is one never-ending vacation. There's a lot about living and traveling … Continue reading The Reality of Living On a Bus: It’s Not All Glamour
We caught the superbloom! If you haven't been following the news coming out of the Bureau of Land Management's California office , I'll explain what that means. Following the nigh drought-ending rainstorms that pummeled California this winter, a so called "superbloom" of wildflowers is happening across the state. Such an extensive bloom of wildflowers hasn't … Continue reading Travelogue: Carrizo Plain National Monument, CA
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
