We had to say farewell to our very good boy, Opie, last week. He was 14.5 years old, surp ...

After five stationary weeks in Vegas, we looked forward to a nice change of scenery in Sa ...

Yes, we've fallen very very behind on our blogging. This past year has been our "year off ...

After the Xscapers Annual Bash, we headed back to Yuma for a week to relax since we were ...

It's a good thing we had some "introvert" downtime in Yuma after all our socializing in T ...

We always look forward to our stays at Catalina State Park in Tucson. Thanks to Mike's su ...

Once again we made our yearly trek back "home" to the VA/MD/DC area to visit friends and ...

Since we've visited the Grand Canyon South Rim, Grand Canyon North Rim, and Black Canyon ( ...

The nice thing about following RV blogs and social media is sometimes you can just steal a ...

Games, games, and more games! The last few weeks, we've been back in Red Bay, AL finishin ...

After our colorful stay in Lunenburg, we moved to the northern side of Nova Scotia to Wolf ...

Since we fulfilled our Opie hiking duties in New Brunswick, we felt guilt-free about leavi ...

We made it to Canada! Our border crossing at Calais Maine consisted of a 5-minute conversa ...

Almost all the hikes in Acadia are dog-friendly. There are a few exceptions, mostly due to ...

It's flipping amazing! While Acadia National Park only encompasses 49,000 acres of the Atl ...

Continuing our journey north, we stopped for a few days outside of Boston to hang out and ...

First of all, it's not even an island! It's firmly attached to Connecticut and Massachuset ...

While we aren’t big fans of cities (many are similar with little to really distinguish the ...

For a while, I didn't feel like blogging for a couple of reasons. First, we were having fu ...

Since we're heading up to New England and Nova Scotia this summer, we're spending our wint ...

It was great to be back in VA/MD to visit with friends and family; however a blog post fil ...

When we decided to get serious about buying a Phaeton, we had to decide on a Tiffin dealer ...

It’s been a while since we’ve posted but it’s taken us some time to recover from our stay ...

After the eclipse (we still haven't been able to stop gushing about the experience), we ma ...

After our giddy and awesome visit to Red Bay AL, we finalized our order, including our cus ...

above: a completed 2018 Phaeton 40 IH waiting for final inspection In case you missed it, ...

above: visiting the Tiffin factory is always a drool-worthy experience. If you read our l ...

There's a common adage in the RV community: "Buy your last RV first". Maybe "second" will ...

Other than Opie's daily (bi-daily?) swim in the Colorado River in Grand Junction during th ...

After two weeks in mostly wilderness, it was nice to hit "civilization" again at Cody, WY ...

After a couple of days fighting with the crowds on the west side, we drove to the north si ...

Above: Grand Prismatic Spring While the views at our boondock site in Grand Teton were, w ...

From SLC, we made a two-day drive north to Grand Teton National Park. We chose to boondock ...

Originally we planned (we use that phrase often) to hit Monument Valley and Moab after Sed ...

We decided to make our first hike easy and short to start warming up our legs. Fay Canyon ...

After Phoenix, we stopped at Camp Verde at a full-hookup campground for a couple of days s ...

While we usually stay at Catalina State Park when in Tucson, the county and state parks ne ...

After Organ Pipe, we got back on track and headed to Yuma for my last dental appointments. ...

After finishing with Texas, we headed to our favorite winter destination, Tucson AZ. Since ...

After leaving Tampa, we took the ubiquitous Interstate 10 straight through to Texas. I-10 ...

Recently we've had better luck running into friends we've made on the road, and while we w ...

One of our goals for 2016 was to drive shorter distances and stay a little longer at each ...

Have you ever watched a TV show or movie where a bunch of stuff happens, then the screen f ...

From Denver, we headed north and west to Estes Park CO to visit Rocky Mountain National Pa ...

After a steep and careful drive over (and through) the Rocky Mountains we made it back to ...

While we had some sleepless nights fighting the mouse war, we were finally able to get out ...

Before we started RV'ing, we had never heard of the majority of the places we have ended u ...

In Part 1 of our Cortez visit, we spent a lot of time exploring the remains of many ancest ...

With our dental work in Mexico wrapped up, we immediately got back into travel mode, drivi ...

After our week at the beach we relocated to Sweetwater Summit Regional Park, about 30 minu ...

The last time we were in San Diego, we stayed at Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve, about 4 ...

Our mini-tour of National Parks complete, it was time to make the long-dreaded trek back t ...

After Bryce, it was time to change directions and start South since we have to get back to ...

After our rest stop in Page and Kanab, it was time to hit our next National Park. We packe ...

With the Grand Canyon in our rear view mirror we headed north again to Page Arizona. We'd ...

From Sedona to the Grand Canyon's south rim is only a 115 mile drive north by car, but by ...

While we've done some great hikes (Glacier National Park comes to mind), Sedona is in a cl ...

The time had come to stop lazing about and start stretching our muscles again. Our next fe ...

We decided to wait out the rest of winter in Tucson and Phoenix before heading further nor ...

When we (ok, Mike) originally made our winter plans, we were going to split our time evenl ...

From Borrego Springs we made the relatively short drive to Indio, at the southern end of C ...

Our plan all along has been to stay in the southwest for the winter where the temperatures ...

Having no dental insurance, we decided to join the thousands of other RV'ers (and other no ...

In late 2015 we installed 600 watts of solar panels on Rover's roof. You can check out Par ...

above: desert art at eye-level (top-left) isn't fully appreciated until viewed from above ...

above: sunset from our campsite at Catalina State Park, Tucson AZ I’m fairly certain Opie ...

It's January 2016, and it's hard to believe we've been on the road for 20 months. Where 20 ...

above: mountains in west TX covered in snow from Winter Storm Goliath. With such a long v ...

above: our first Florida sunset in over a year, during an overnight stop Leaving DC was b ...

above: Opie and Jaxon surveying our beautiful camp site in Reston VA. After six weeks in ...

As discussed in Part 1, we decided to do our own solar install rather than paying someone ...

After thinking about it for over a year, we've finally decided to add solar panels to Rove ...

The more traveling around the country we do, the more interesting and useful maps we come ...

We've said it before, but these Six Flags season passes turned out to be great for our fir ...

Our next stop on the eastward trek was Niagara Falls. One thing we didn't count on though ...

Since we were so close to the Chicago area for Six Flags, we made a weekend of visiting my ...

Today we finally installed something we've been wanting for close to a year: a propane acc ...

Our next two stops allowed us to continue to feed our roller coaster addiction. First we s ...

It's taken us a couple of weeks to get to a point where we can write this post. Our stay i ...

After Black Hills, we headed over to Badlands National Park. We often heard that Badlands ...

Our next destination on our continuing voyage east brings us to the Black Hills area of So ...

Yesterday started out as another beautiful day here in Custer, South Dakota. Hot (high 80s ...

above: taking a break, with Grinnell Lake just coming into view on the left Our final hik ...

above: part of the Highline Trail We woke up early for our big day. Incidentally, we foun ...

I'll state this right up front: Glacier National Park in Montana is our new favorite Natio ...

above: the walking bridge between the RV sites and tent sites at Tolt River We decided to ...

above: our hazy view from Hurricane Hill Port Angeles, WA is our last stop before we star ...

  above: our view of Mt. Saint Helens from the road to parking area. It's been a lo ...

above: amazing views of Mt. Hood as we approached Portland As we continued to meander thr ...

When we originally made our plans to travel up the Pacific coast from San Diego to Seattle ...

During our first few months living in Rover we realized that our auto-leveling jacks weren ...

Our trip into Oregon was twisty and slow. Highway 199 is definitely doable in a big rig, b ...

above: Fern Canyon Crescent City, CA, our final stop in CA! From Redcrest, we headed n ...

Our next stop was another two hours north in California, this time in the tiny town of Red ...

We're still (slowly) heading north on US-101 but California is pretty darn large. We've mo ...

After staying in a literal parking lot just outside of San Francisco, it felt good to camp ...

above: driving towards San Francisco from Santa Cruz So far, with the exception of Los An ...

Our original plan was to stay in San Juan Bautista for 2-3 weeks until Rover's final warra ...

After our fun (and not so fun) stay in Pinnacles National Park, we headed to our next stop ...

...continued from previous post After watching Opie trying to ingest as much greenery a ...

After saying a very sad farewell to the strawberries... er, I mean San Luis Obispo, we hea ...

About halfway between the Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay area lies San Luis Ob ...

After our four-month journey west(ish) from Florida to San Diego, we've finally turned nor ...

above: the Louis Bank of Commerce building, constructed in 1888. After Phoenix, we stoppe ...

above: Lake Fairfax County Park, Reston VA Following up on our 2014 Year In Review post, ...

above: the fountain in Fountain Hills can reach 560' in height. After Tucson we made a re ...

After Quartzsite, we headed back to Catalina State Park in Tucson to hang out for 10 more ...

Another RV upgrade we recently made was installing a swiveling TV mount for Rover's main T ...

One of the upgrades on our wish list since we purchased Rover was a full-featured RV power ...

Quartzsite, AZ located near the borders of Mexico and California, is one of those experien ...

Our first year of RVing is over, so it's time to take a look back at a few milestones for ...

We spent a wonderful two weeks in Tucson, AZ thawing from our last two cold stops. I can s ...

When we started our full-time RVing, I knew I wanted to keep a map of each year's travels. ...

above: Our very nice campsite at Davis Mountains State Park As I'm finally thawing out in ...

After our stay at the eastern edge of Big Bend, we packed up and drove west through the pa ...

Above: One of the amazing views from the Lost Mine Trail. We finally made it to Big Bend ...

According to our grand plan, during the past three weeks we were supposed to be touring Ho ...

Yay! We finally made it out of Florida. Florida's gravitational pull ended up being even s ...

After Tallahassee, our next planned destination along I-10 west was New Orleans. At around ...

  Once the rest of our 6-month repairs were completed on Rover, we made our way to ...

We've been full-timing in Rover for six months now. I might as well get it out of the way ...

Update December 2015: Google changed something in late 2015 and as far as I can tell, it i ...

After our repair stop-over at our RV dealer in Tampa, Lazydays, we had to make a couple of ...

In the six months since moving into Rover, we've traveled from Tampa Florida to Peterborou ...

Our last two weeks have been a little different than usual. Since we were back in Florida ...

After Savannah it was time to head to Universal Orlando (yay!). The last time we were ther ...

Our next stop on our return trip south was Savannah Georgia. We stayed at a beautiful camp ...

After Dragoncon we spent a week and a half in Augusta Georgia. It wasn't on our list of pl ...

Last week was a whirlwind of activity as we attended our second Dragoncon. For those not i ...

  From Wytheville, VA we made our way to Sylva, NC as we moved inexorably back dow ...

We were unable to leave Virginia's gravitational pull this time although we got pretty clo ...

Lancaster County PA, where the cows and chickens truly are free-range, almost everyone has ...

I think we finally out-ran summer! After picking up Rover in Florida at the end of April, ...

We just spent a week in Red Hook New York and had our first opportunity to break out our b ...

Since the only reason we went to Jackson NJ was to visit Six Flags, we stayed for just thr ...

After Philly, we took a short hop over to Jackson NJ to check out Six Flags: Great Adventu ...

Our drive from College Park MD to Philly turned out slightly more stressful than anticipat ...

Above: Kathie standing next to a raw 24,000 lb. rated chassis. Just like humans (and dogs ...

Overall I'm very happy with Rover and all his amenities. We've been in our coach for a lit ...

We wanted to get back to the DC area within six week of purchasing Rover so we could pick ...

Charleston turned out to be a fun place to visit, full of history and culture. One of the ...

We've been having such a blast with our new, rebooted lifestyle, that we sometimes forget ...

Since we no longer have a backyard for Opie to run free, we've been trying to take the boy ...

After Space Coast, we decided to head to St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Driving Rover con ...

We'd like to take a break from our normal blogging to share a short video of our drive nor ...

We arrived at the Space Coast RV Resort in the early afternoon and got ourselves set up fo ...

After Mom's house, we had to head back to Tampa to get a few things fixed on Rover. Most w ...

Just finished up my first big project for Rover and it only took a few hours to complete! ...

Above: Florida's Lovebugs are truly horrific only a half-hour into our drive. Part four, ...

Above: Rover perfectly backed into our first campground spot. What a team! At this point ...

Above: Walking the dogs through the used luxury RV lot. We knew this week would be busy a ...

From the beginning of our journey on April 27th until now, it's been pretty hectic and wri ...

One week from right now, we will be in Savannah Georgia, more than halfway to Seffner, FL ...

The last few weeks have been a been a bit of an emotional roller-coaster, but we now have ...

This week has been the painting, bubble test, rain test, and final inspections for our bab ...

Check out our full photo gallery of the build process! We decided on a Tiffin Motorcoach ...

This week we're another step closer to living the full-time RV lifestyle: our beautiful ho ...

Last year, the world was wowed by the many different views of the Chelyabinsk meteor strea ...

While we were in Tampa at the RV SuperShow, we also took a day to visit Busch Gardens righ ...

Every year there is a large RV show in Tampa FL, one of the largest shows in the US, simil ...

The process of choosing a toad turned out to be more complicated and time consuming than w ...

Choosing a motorhome turned out to be an exhausting but very educational experience. Unlik ...

Once we figured out that we'd be driving a big Class A motorhome around the country, we le ...

above: class C motorhomeWhen we started shopping for RVs, we knew there would be a lot to ...

It's true, we've decided it's time to try something new and different. Not just a little d ...

We're getting an RV! The stay-at-home, don't-go-out, outdoors-is-icky couple will soon own ...