Category: Washington

Last February, when I gave my employers notice that I was leaving to fulfill our fulltiming dreams, I felt very conflicted. My two years at Athena Women’s Health has been amazing. Walking away from a job I love, from people …

Ever since Linda and I first decided that a life on the road was going to be our destiny, it has been fascinating to witness the reaction of family, friends and complete strangers. The concept of choosing to live in …

Steven and I have spent the weekend making loads of progress, unpacking box after box of our stuff. Wait, what? That’s right. I said UN-packing! Five years ago we packed up all our considerable worldly goods in order to sell …

Last Friday marked the end of my employment in the corporate world (Linda retires at the end of May). It doesn’t necessarily mean we will never work again, in fact, we are planning on it to help support our life …

Not so long ago I wrote a blog post about the top ten things I’m looking forward to in our new life on the road. Of course transitioning from one lifestyle to another means there will be some compromises. This …

When last we blogged, Scoopy was heading back to the shop for her final upgrades and, as it turned out, a couple more repairs. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with her, but as always, it was too short. We seem …

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? …