When we first bought a home, we quickly learned that there would always be a project to tackle.  Sure, we brought it on ourselves by buying a house built in 1897, but we didn’t realize that it would be so continuous. When we downsized to an RV, we thought we were downsizing our projects.  Only so…

We went out to our local watering hole the other night, just hanging out and playing pool, having a few drinks. In came a huge crowd of guys, all loud and slapping each other’s backs.  Laughing at jokes we couldn’t understand. Loudly toasting, yelling, drinking, challenging each other. It took us a little while to…

We’ve had a lot of readers, family members, and friends contact us with questions about what it means to be a park host.  I realized it is way past time to talk about it. The first big question: how did we get this gig? It’s a great story, though fairly short.  We applied through the…

On Wednesday, we got several phone calls from a friend who is currently visiting California.  After calling him back and figuring out what was going on, we found out that he had injured himself and needed a place to stay. We rented a car and took a road trip, only four hours away but into…

We’ve been parked in our new spot for four months now.  It has been easy to settle in, get comfortable, and somehow accumulate more stuff.  Now that we have an outdoor space, we have a little more storage. This is a problem when you have to move your RV to fill your propane tank. We…

When we bought our Jeep before our adventure, my dad said, “You didn’t just buy a vehicle, you bought a Jeep.”  He told us that being a Jeep owner was a whole thing and that we would find out just what he meant as we traveled around. Driving down the road we see a guy…

After our medical scare with little Theo, we knew that we needed to spend some time fixing up our RV parking spot and yard. We decided to tackle our shade tarp first.  Though this did not directly effect his injury, we wanted to allow more airflow into the motorhome for the hot summer creeping up…

Each area that we have traveled to has posed different risks for our pets and ourselves. We were familiar with the many risks of living in Minnesota and tried our hardest to keep anything bad from happening. In Minnesota, we knew that two of the biggest risks to our pets were fleas and ticks. We knew to use a preventive…

We’ve had some interesting new experiences over the past two weeks here in Southern California.  I was recently offered a position as a writer with a newspaper in the town where we are currently park hosts. After pitching them a story, meeting the owner, and having my story accepted, I wrote the  article.  A week later,…

There’s nothing quite like the Midwest.  Nice people surrounded by rich, beautiful landscape with more lakes than you can imagine.  And it’s colorful.  Summer brings a deeper, truer green than many other places in the U.S.  Fall is too colorful to even describe; with cool weather, fewer bugs, and trees turning color, it is the…