May 20, 2025 – The Casita Adventures Begin!

While taking refuge from the heat in the air-conditioned Casita, it's difficult to imagine that in less than 3 weeks, we'll be above the 45th parallel ferrying our truck and trailer across the Gulf of St Lawrence to Newfoundland. A couple days after that, we'll be as far north as the 52nd parallel and as … Continue reading May 20, 2025 – The Casita Adventures Begin! →

Apr 27, 2025 – Testing the Casita While Gathering Rosebuds

If you need to haul your Casita back home over 1000 miles, you may as well take your time and do a little sightseeing along the way. After pulling a 33’ fifth wheel around the country for seven years, the 17’ trailer would be a whole new experience for us. So, from Rice, Texas to … Continue reading Apr 27, 2025 – Testing the Casita While Gathering Rosebuds →

Mar 10, 2025 – What We Value Most

"At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it." - author Joshua Becker. The RV lifestyle can be described as minimalism. When Vivian and I began living full time in an RV, we promoted the things we value most and … Continue reading Mar 10, 2025 – What We Value Most →

Mar 2, 2025 Our Favorite National Park Photos

As Vivian and I prepare for a big change, I've been reflecting on our RV travels which gives me an excuse to bring out the photos. So, I thought it would be fun to reminisce here. This blog is about some of those fabulous national parks we have visited. During our RV travels, Vivian and … Continue reading Mar 2, 2025 Our Favorite National Park Photos →

Oct 27, 2024 – A Bittersweet Ending to our 2024 Travels

Since 2018, crossing Florida’s state border line marks the beginning of the end of our travels for the year and reminds us we are coming home to Chokoloskee Island for the winter. This year following several months of traveling, we crossed the state line with our fifth wheel in tow for the last time. Florida … Continue reading Oct 27, 2024 – A Bittersweet Ending to our 2024 Travels →

May 23, 2024 – Time to Get off the Island

Our island home. Since October 21, we have been parked on Chokoloskee Island, our winter home. While here, ours is a remote subtropical lifestyle filled with snowbirds, palm trees and the Gulf of Mexico. While folks in other parts of the country are experiencing headliner weather firsthand, we here in south Florida are watching from … Continue reading May 23, 2024 – Time to Get off the Island →

May 7, 2023 – If it’s Meant to Happen, it Will

Our second day on the road brought us to this lovely campsite, on Lake Seminole, barely over the Florida state line for a little bit of Georgia before heading west. Not to be a Debbie Downer, but when you decide to live and travel full time in an RV, you need a hefty amount of … Continue reading May 7, 2023 – If it’s Meant to Happen, it Will →

Fulltime RVing – Trip Planning 101

So many places to see, so little time! As we plan our next travel adventure, I'd like to share our process of planning and preparation with you. We've learned much along the way, especially that good planning culminates into fantastic RV trips. My advice is based on personal experience from towing a 33-ft fifth wheel … Continue reading Fulltime RVing – Trip Planning 101 →

Looking Back – Imagine RV Travels without Public Lands

As I think about having pulled our home on wheels over 30,000 miles through parts of the United States, Scotland pops into my thoughts. Years ago while visiting the most northern country in the UK, we discovered an interesting fact about it - there are no ‘Keep Out’ signs on fences in the Scottish countryside. … Continue reading Looking Back – Imagine RV Travels without Public Lands →

Fulltime RVing – Eleven Tools we Cannot Live Without

Wisdom is commonly described this way- "If I only knew then what I know now". Such is fulltime living in an RV. Four years of it can be summarized as follows - an accumulation of trials and errors, painstaking learning curves that rely heavily on YouTube videos, the occasional and quite gratifying "high five" when … Continue reading Fulltime RVing – Eleven Tools we Cannot Live Without →