It was Friday before Memorial Day and were scheduled to pick up our travel trailer at the dealer in Pennsylvania. We had already booked the weekend at a campground to let the real learning begin. We were thrilled that we had reached this milestone at the beginning of the summer season as opposed to the…
While it’s true that no amount of preparation will guarantee that you’ll hit the road without a glitch, we have found that the more we prepared the less afraid we felt. In addition, it gave us the opportunity to adjust expectations, for example: all the stuff we thought we needed on the road, has been…
We didn’t know what we wanted but we had two starting points: We wanted a new unit and had an initial budget of $10K to $20K. We quickly found out that a new unit can run for a lot more. Our all time favorite, the Airstream, for example has a price tag of $45,000+ for…
Without a doubt, research can be time consuming but it cannot be rushed. It began over a year ago as Zorro and I planned a hiking trip and I was trying to figure out which National Park was in both of our bucket lists. I stumbled up on Gone with the Wynns and couldn’t stop reading their…
During our last trip, we talked about a dream we individually had but placed in the back burner for various reasons. In my case, I always thought of it as something I would never do on my own and felt it was something I could only do when I retire: “Zig-zag the USA in an…