The day has finally come! We have officially launched and we are off to our first National Park! This trip has been in the works for almost two years now, so it honestly feels a little surreal that we are actually ON THE ROAD. If you want to get stoked with us, watch our short launch video: … [Read more…]
So, today I walked in my first ever graduation ceremony. It was cool. Kind of weird walking around in wizard robes, but hey, cool to do it at least once, right? I just wanted to take a second and write down a few things I learned from my years in college. Sure, … [Read more…]
Here is an update on Our Vie Adventures! Madison and I graduated in December. Madison finished her BS in Exercise and Wellness and is planning on getting certified to be a personal trainer or go on to study occupational therapy. I completed a BS in Geology and a BA in Russian with a minor in … [Read more…]
When I first thought, “Hey, we should put solar panels on top of the RV!” I thought it was as easy as that… just slap some solar panels on top and use the power of the sun! Boy was I wrong! The list of what you need to successfully instal a solar set up was … [Read more…]
So, ever since we got the RV, I have been wondering what we were going to do with the roof. There is just SO MUCH SPACE up there, that something has to be done with it! So we went to the drawing board. (And bear with me – this turned out to be a longer … [Read more…]
We finally put our plan to the map! We sat down and plotted our route to get to every single national park in the country in ONE MASSIVE LOOP. It gets a little complicated – we don’t want to be down south when it is a million degrees, and we have to wait for Alaska … [Read more…]
We posted a while back about the start of the paint job on Vie (If you missed that, here is the link – Paint The Beast). The second half has been done for a while – I have just been really slow in getting it on here. If you remember back to “The Plan”, I … [Read more…]
All of this happened a while back – we got the rack over Christmas break, but it has just taken us a while to get this all posted. I was PUMPED to get this rack on Vie. We were originally going to weld a custom rack. This would have been a bit more difficult. And even … [Read more…]
We were DYING to get Vie out on a test run. So, we set our sights on Christmas in California! We wanted to test her out on the long haul and see how she could do. With finals and everything crashing down before we left, we didn’t have time to get the roof rack set up. … [Read more…]
Alright, renovation time. Here is what we have dreamed up: I sketched this during my invertebrate paleontology lab. Aint nobody got time for spineless creatures that died millions of years ago! I have an RV to remodel! Kind of what we are envisioning for the outside is a lighter brown or beige all over… … [Read more…]