A lot of you have been waiting a LONG time to finally see the new and improved Vie. Can you say #extremehome(onwheels)makeover? I’ll take you through the whole tour. But first, let’s reminisce for a moment about the old Vie… Lovely. Here she is folks… the new and improved Vie! Welcome to our home. Basically, without … [Read more…]
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…]
In honor of Caturday, I thought it would be fun to tell you the story of Vladimir Kitten. It all started when we first saw the Cats vs. Cucumber video on YouTube. Do yourself a favor and watch it right now then come back. Anyways, Cees, who doesn’t usually care for cats, said, “Man I … [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…]
Herrro everyone! I can’t believe it’s been so long since our last OurVie post….surry. We have had kind of a crazy summer with me being in California for a couple months with my family, Cees being in southern Utah for his geology field study, me being in Thailand for a couple months, and then me … [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…]