Another day, another housesit … this one just around the corner from my parents’ house. The leaves are slowly changing to red, gold, and orange, and it’s finally getting cooler. Best of all … we’re doing some serious travel planning around here — stay tuned! Our favorite finds from around the web: Travel and Fear: The World Is Not Safe, But You Should Travel It Anyway. As we’re beginning to plan more international travel — and as things get crazier and crazier here in the United States — travel safety is more and more on my mind. (That’s especially true as our travel involves more airplanes ..read more

September was a pretty good month of reading for me — including making my way through several books that have been on my reading list for a long time. This summer was so full, I didn’t get a lot of reading done — and now that fall is here, and it’s getting cold and dark earlier, I’m ready to attack my stack of books! The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon I read The Confusion of Languages after finding it on Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Summer Reading Guide (category: Intense Novels). I absolutely loved it! I love page-turning, twisty, suspenseful novels — but these days, a lot of the ..read more

The end of summer means long shadows and deserted beaches at Pawtuckaway State Park. Our favorite finds from around the web: 101 small ways you can improve your city. I’m loving this list after reading This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are.  (As travel-crazy as I am, I never want to forget to also invest in my home, wherever that might be at the moment!) The Best Place to Camp in Each of the 50 States. This article pretty much makes me want to pack up and go, right now. (Funnily enough, we just wrapped up a 10-day housesit on Pawtuckaway Lake … see above … which T ..read more

We’re going back in time to share our 2017 car camping adventure through the Southwest! While our trip ended up being shorter than planned, we had some amazing adventures, including several new national parks and getting to be on one of our favorite TV shows! Thanks for reading along! … The Plan had been to leave the Texas coast and head straight for our next stop: Big Bend National Park (cue heart eyes). But you guys should know by now that we rarely stick to the plan — and this time, it was for an unexpected and welcome detour. At the time my brother, who lives in San Antonio ..read more

We’re going back in time to share our 2017 car camping adventure through the Southwest! While our trip ended up being shorter than planned, we had some amazing adventures, including several new national parks and getting to be on one of our favorite TV shows! Thanks for reading along! … A much-awaited highlight of this trip was beach camping on the Texas coast — although our travels ended up not quite going as planned! Our trip from Louisiana took us through Houston in a crazy rainstorm … … but as we turned south, the weather slowly turned to reveal some gorgeous clouds and Tex ..read more

This week we’re housesitting on a beautiful lake in central New Hampshire! The leaves are juuuuust starting to turn colors and the summer crowds have left, leaving us almost alone with the loons Our favorite finds from around the web: How to make your life adventure ready. As we slow our travels, we want to make sure to keep our sense of adventure. “In between the epics, though, are a thousand tiny ways to get into the woods, from impromptu paddles to single-night backpacking trips. [But] it’s not always easy, and there are plenty of reasons to stay on the couch.” On moving up a grade in li ..read more

We’re going back in time to share our 2017 car camping adventure through the Southwest! While our trip ended up being shorter than planned, we had some amazing adventures, including several new national parks and getting to be on one of our favorite TV shows! Thanks for reading along! … Building The Hitchenette and outfitting Franklin the Tahoe with a new camping rig took several weeks longer than planned. So instead of hitting the road shortly after New Year’s, it was January 19 before we had Franklin packed and pointed south. No two people have ever felt so ready to hit the road ..read more

I know. It has been forever since we posted. Like … eight months, to be exact. When we last left you, we were jaunting merrily off on a trek that was planned to take us, over the course of ten months, from New Hampshire to Alaska and back.  We had amazing new gear and a crazy plan to leave our camper behind. Well, as you may have guessed by now — we didn’t quite make it. It’s hard to say exactly where our plan went off course. We had a wonderful trip south to Louisiana — visiting friends, and checking off a national park along the way. We camped on the beach in Texas … An ..read more

So with the new camping platform put together,  and all our updated storage worked out to keep us organized as we go full-time in the truck this year, we were eager to hit the road. But despite all the improvements, we weren’t quite done. One of the reasons we were so eager to build a new platform and get more organized was that we got tired of constantly moving our cooler and bins of food gear in and out of the truck — then stashing it in the front seat every night to keep it away from animals. Laziness is the mother of invention! Having spent almost six months mulling it ..read more

In my last post, I showed you guys the new camping/storage platform that I build for our travels this year. As we were driving around last year, we realized we still had a lot of loose items rolling around that drove us nuts, and a lot of unnecessary clutter we didn’t want to spend another year dealing with.  So today, I’m going to show you a few of the things I built, bought, or was given (thanks, Moms!) that we are using to stay neat, orderly, functional, and organized. Hopefully, you’ll find a few things you like that will work for you as well! 1) Shelves For both of our previous ..read more