When Derek and I moved to Bend 15 years ago I’d never seen the house we were moving into. I’d been working full time at a Fortune 500 company and racing mountain bikes professionally, which meant I used all my vacation time to go to races. So, Derek traveled to Bend and bought a house …
Our last major purchase before we hit the road is a set of new mountain bikes. As much as we loved our old bikes, they were getting a little dated and needed maintenance. So the option was to spend quite a bit on updating and tuning them up to get them to last a few …
We haven’t been posting much lately. It has been a crazy last few months. We sold our house and got rid of most of our stuff. Most stuff ended up being donated, but we did have a garage sale and listed stuff on Craigslist and sold a decent amount of it. A small amount went …
Since we plan to do a lot of back country camping, we wanted to get a solar set up for the travel trailer. Our trailer came pre-wired for up to three solar panels. We debated how many panels to get and ended up going big and getting three of the 160w Zamp panels. This gives …
After a lot of searching for the perfect travel trailer for us, we finally pulled the plug and bought our new trailer and future home. The travel trailer we decided on is the Outdoors RV Timber Ridge 24RLS. It doesn’t have the catchiest name, but it is a great trailer. If you have never heard …
So far this spring the weather has been a little lackluster for getting in some early season camping trips. Last year we already had a few camp trips in the books by May. This year every weekend seemed to bring rain or cold and we were starting to get a little antsy to get our …
As much as I liked our old Tundra, in order to get a larger trailer we had to upgrade to a newer model. Our old truck was good at towing our small trailer that we have now, but since we want a larger trailer for our travels we needed a newer one with a …
Operation downsize is about to begin. The goal is to reduce our stuff to what we can fit into a 200 square foot trailer and pick-up truck. This isn’t an easy task since we have been together for 20 years and I tend to be an above average consumer. We have gotten rid of some …
Okay, so this is the first post on our blog. Where do I start? I thought about telling you a little bit about us, but chances are if you are reading this post you already know us. Of course there is the chance that you discovered our blog down the road and are the type …