On the Go, In the Know

After drying out from our drowned rat days in NOVA, we headed out to Mammoth Cave National Park . Our first night in the park was a bit mor...

We had a fantastic visit with my college buddy, Cindy, yesterday.  We got to see four of her six kids after they got out of high school.  We...

My parents lent us the Great Courses Algebra video and workbook.  I have no answer book for the workbook, and so it was becoming a challenge...

Our timeframe for returning to CO had been set way before we even began our journey across the US.  NS got confirmed on the 15th of Septembe...

Time to hit some numbers.  In my pipe dreams, we were living on less than 3k a month.  We missed that by a HUGE amount.  We've spent ove...

Turns out, I'm not so excited to tent camp in July in Utah.  I love Dinosaur National Monument , don't get me wrong.  But my body ab...

Me oh my.  Things have gotten real.  This morning I made two reservations.  Neither of them being for our first, second, or even third locat...

We're now down to less than a month in the house.  At times it feels like so much still needs to be done, at other times I feel like we...

One of the difficulties of this travel year is continuing the scouting program.  We're progressing as  Lone Scouts .  We headed down t...

The house is under contract!!!!  We now have a start date of sorts.  We'll be in town until the older boys return from South Dakota on t...

In the Denver area, it's been raining.  A long time now, it seems.  My garden is totally digging it, but it makes me wonder about this t...

We have loved the Junior Ranger program from the NPS (and some states, too!) since we took our big trip four years ago.  I was actually intr...

It's time!!!  I finally get to start planning...ish....  Since we need to wait for the house to sell, I don't really have dates, tho...

I'm full into planning our next academic year.  I'm the kind of gal who just can't seem to work past Christmas, my enthusiasm ju...

Argh.  One of our goals on this trip is to save money.  Our current mortgage is close to 2k/month, plus utilities.  We can go way under that...

Second moving sale down.  Yeah!!!!!  We've managed to get rid of tons of stuff, thanks to the two moving sales, and advertising on our n...

Daydreaming about the trip.  That's fun.  Researching places to go, I love it.  Talking about the beautiful sites we'll see.  All ov...

 We did some poking around before heading out to NM for the Sprinter to figure out what we wanted to do with our time.  I had found Pet...

We bought our minivan right before our 2nd son was born.  That's coming up on 12 years ago now.  Our oldest just turned 13, and he no lo...

You know that guy from The Lorax?  The one who figgers on biggerin' and biggerin' and biggerin'?  Yeah, I think that was us for ...