Month: March 2014

When we liberated Scoopy from the shop, our itemized bill was 7 pages long and jokingly referred to as “the nightmare”. Ours was certainly not the largest repair and reno job Auburn-Kent Valley RV Center has ever done, but our …

After two and a half months at the spa, we finally liberated Scoopy just in time for a 3-day getaway. Our plan was to arrive at 11:30 am and spend a leisurely couple of hours or so going over the …

There are few things we own that have strong emotional value to us, which makes downsizing pretty much a piece of cake. Of course, we get to keep a fair number of things at my parents’ place in Texas, so …

I’ve never really had a conventional life. My parents would play good cop/bad cop at the dinner table when talking to me about my future. “Do you really think that being in a rock band is a good career choice? …

At the end of a blog post I wrote on March 18, 2009 I said, “That’s how the idea of Steven and Linda as fulltimers came to be. We have five years and five months until we hit the road. …

    In no particular order… 1. Forced downsizing.Not everyone gets the opportunity to declutter all the precious belongings accumulated in a life. As I get older, I find that I need less stuff. Most of us probably feel this way …

When last we blogged of our adventures with Scoopy, we were celebrating our first RV-style Thanksgiving holiday in a wonderful lakefront setting with our entire family of five in attendance. It seems like forever ago, and I guess it was, …