The Chouters & Bijou

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, …

We’re always a little nervous heading out to liberate Scoopy from her storage. We’re never quite sure how she’s fared during our time away from her. We hadn’t seen her in six weeks, since our trip to Cape Disappointment, so …

Cape Disappointment is known for its beautiful beaches and ocean views but the coastal weather usually leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe that’s the disappointment part. We were fully prepared to spend our time there in the wind and …

Every time we take a trip in Scoopy, we learn something, either by necessity, or simply by honing our process. On this trip, our seventh since adopting Scoopy last May, we changed things up a bit and it made a …

This camping trip with my posse was four years in the making. The last time we went there were five of us crammed into Alfred Hitchpop. It was a tight squeeze, but we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We stayed at the …