After the Grand Canyon, we went to Zion National Park. When we lived in Colorado, we had seen pictures of a number of our friends doing this awesome thing called canyoneering. The gist is, hike in the desert, find cool canyons, and then hike or swim or maybe even use ropes to rappel down them. Amazon Prime has a cool movie about it if you’re interested called Gorging. We both liked hiking and climbing and swimming and ropes and knots and rappelling so it seemed right up our alley. But it also sounded like a really easy way to kill yourself. So we decided to do it the right way and for Allison ..read more

On our way from the Petrified Forest to the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon to Zion (Grand Canyon post coming up!), we stopped in Page, Arizona. We hadn’t really researched the area and thought we’d just be spending a quick overnight in the Wal-Mart parking lot before moving along. It turned out that the area is beautiful, and full of gems you’ve probably seen all over your Instagram feed. After much excited Googling, we made a plan! We had time to see Lower Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, and Glen Canyon Dam. Lower Antelope Canyon (and Upper, for that matter) is on Navajo Nation land, so you can ..read more

(Note: Sorry for the delay, we know it has been a while since we posted. We’ve had an extremely busy couple months with some pretty big changes. That said, we still have some amazing posts in the works about the past couple months and we want to do the locations justice. So please bear with us while we get the photos edited and the posts written. It should hopefully be worth the wait!) We had a couple options for how to get from Santa Fe to the Grand Canyon, but we knew it was going to take us a couple days to drive the 7+ hours for us since we could only drive a couple hours after work each d ..read more

While we were staying in Santa Fe, I was talking on the phone to my grandmother who mentioned that when they were visiting the area a few years ago, they stopped by some museum about the atomic bombs and nuclear stuff. That sounded really interesting so I did some googling and found the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. Allison and I had a spare weekend day waiting to give our car back to the mechanic-who-won’t-be-named on Monday so we decided to head down and visit. Really, I got super excited about this museum and demanded the car for the day to go see it and Allison graciously ..read more

We’ve talked about some of the places that would be near the top of our places to live before but Santa Fe is definitely on the list now. We loved it and we definitely want to go back. Santa Fe started out in our heads as just “a city near Taos where we could get some maintenance done on our car.” So we found a mechanic, who we won’t name because of the Thumper rule (“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”), but we were a little nervous about finding a place to stay since all of the RV parks were really expensive (and we later found out, completely full for the Ind ..read more

Taos was a cool little town, and our first introduction to New Mexico, and in many ways, to the Southwest. We got to put another state sticker on our map- woohoo! Even more exciting, our friend Brad came to visit us for a few days, which was really nice and sorely lacking in our lives. First Impressions Architecture So we had seen pictures of Southwestern architecture, most notably adobe buildings. I was under the impression, though, that this was probably just the historical sections of town or maybe the tourist areas. I was SO wrong! It is everywhere. There are the historic buildings, y ..read more

After Mesa Verde, the next logical place to go was Durango, CO. Durango was right up the road and we needed some work done on the RV. We went into Durango with some high expectations as a town we’d really enjoy and while it was fine, we were pretty disappointed overall. I think our impression can best be summed up by a quote we got on Facebook when asking for leads on places to stay: “all the best places in Durango are at least 12 miles outside town.” It started when we were trying to find a place to stay. When we’re visiting a town (especially one we might be scouting for possibly living ther ..read more

Being truly nomadic while working is an odd experience. With our jobs earning us plenty of money without ever needing to be in a particular place, we’re free to live wherever we want to in the world. This feels really odd. Most people in the US live where they do because that is where they grew up. The go through high school, get a job locally and stay there. Some people will move to go to a college far away but then they’ll get a job either in their adopted city or maybe move one more time with a new job offer. Maybe you’ll have a strong love of cities or the country or a particular state and ..read more

Did you know that Mesa Verde is the only National Park in the U.S. dedicated to the history of humans? It’s true! It makes Mesa Verde not only beautiful, as most parks are, but also unique and powerful. I’ll do my best to tell you about it, but you should definitely visit here if you can. It’s really indescribable to be walking in the same place that people did 800+ years ago. You can truly imagine their lives far more than any book can describe. Spruce Tree House (I think)History of Mesa Verde Let me back up. Mesa Verde was the home of the Ancestral Puebloan peoples. Twenty-one different Nati ..read more

TL;DR: We pay $80/month to have “unlimited” access to the biggest US cellular carriers and use our phones as a backup with Google Fi. We also use a cell booster to increase the range we can get good signal from a tower. This, plus very accommodating jobs, allows us to work (and stream Netflix ) from almost anywhere in the continental US. I recently hit my four year anniversary of working remotely full-time. It’s been fantastic! I never need to go to an office and everyone else in the IT department also works remotely. Every day I talk to people in about 10 different states and 2-3 countries ..read more