Back in early January, we got an unexpected email from Lori Knight, a producer with Efran Films. She was researching topics for a client, Autoblog, and somehow came across us. Our solar RV conversion and on-the-road living interested her and she wanted to do a story about us for Autoblog.
Read MoreBig news! The Toaster is 100% propane free! How? By taking out our last propane appliance - the RV stove/oven.
Read MoreThis story took place last summer in Montana, where we’re currently at. I was reminded of our trip to Morrell Falls in Lolo National Forest as we drove past the sign for the trail on our way to paddle Lake Alva last weekend.
Read MoreStaying in shape while living on the road isn’t hard. Here are 4 great workouts you can do instead of your usual outdoor activities.
Read MoreBryce Canyon National Park doesn't seem to get as much love as Zion National Park, even though they are about 78 miles from one another. It's understandable - not only is Zion bigger in acreage, but its views are more grandiose, diverse, expansive and dramatic. There's also more hiking trails miles in Zion. But the scenery at Bryce is unparalleled to anywhere else.
Read MoreWhen you live on the road, you don’t have a meaningful physical address. Our increasingly paperless society makes it pretty easy to manage correspondence, bills, even legal matters and taxes electronically – but what do you do when you actually need to get a real thing delivered into your hands?
Read MoreFor the last year, it has seemed to us like all the full-timers we meet have a mobile hotspot (aka “jetpack”) for cellular data in their RV. It seemed like it was an obvious choice for them, but it wasn’t so clear-cut to us. We’ve been looking into it for months without finding satisfying answers to our questions, so when we recently had the chance to pick up a jetpack for nearly-free, we took the opportunity to find out for ourselves.
Read MoreSometimes you randomly choose a place to go and it ends up being the perfect decision. Heading to Big Water, UT was ours.
Read MoreYep, we just experienced our first RV flat tire. While we had an idea of how to change the flat and it seemed pretty easy in our heads, we had actually never changed a flat on the trailer. Turns out it was as easy as we thought.
Read MoreWe grew up learning the three pillars of recycling: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. But there's a really important "R" that's missing and will change how you recycle when applied to your daily life.
Read MoreMadeleine Boga emailed me a few weeks back saying that she was working on a feature piece for She Explores exploring the concepts of home. She asked if I would be interested in participating in this collaborative piece. I said YES!
Read MoreWhen we first started renovating the Toaster I was set on replacing all the window blind wands with something a bit more tasteful than the clear cheap plastic that our original blinds came with. But as the list of things that needed to be fixed on the RV got longer, the wands lost priority and fell off my list. But they came back on my list when I recently noticed markings on the wall.
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Something we recently discovered was showering outside the RV. Like most RVs, ours came with an outside shower. But we never used it to wash the dogs or rinse something off outside. We kept waiting for the right combination of circumstances to be able to shower outside: weather and privacy.
Read MoreIt wasn't until the day before we wanted to go hike Antelope Canyon that I searched online for hike details. That was when I found out that you have to join a paid tour group to be able to enter and visit it - whether it's Upper or Lower Antelope Canyon. The words "tour group" make my stomach turn sour.
Read MoreIt's funny how I had never heard of Hurricane or Virgin, UT until we left the Toaster at a storage unit in St. George to go to Jackson, WY. Then we found out that the area is jam-packed with outdoor activities: from rock climbing to mountain biking to hiking.
Read MoreMountain biking is why we came here and mountain biking is what we did! The Hurricane/Virgin area is small, but to make up for it (really there’s no need to make up for small because small is great!) there are six different mountain biking trail systems, tons of hiking, and Zion National Park is nearby.
Read MoreStaying connected while on the road is one of the hottest topics amongst full-timers, and the unlimited cell data plan is the holy grail of working nomads. But if you don’t already have one, they are getting harder and harder to acquire, so travelers are increasingly having to make ‘limited’ data plans work. We’re not experts on this, but we have traveled for a year without an unlimited plan, and when we tell fellow nomads how small our data plan is, they generally seem amazed. So I think that means we’re getting by with a pretty small allotment. It does take effort, but cell data costs can be kept in check (really helping the monthly budget), without totally unplugging from civilization.
Read MoreWe didn't realize until we arrived in Hurricane how close to Zion National Park (Zion Canyon part of the park) we were boondocked - 17 miles to be exact. From the two boondocking sites we stayed at we could see the Zion mountains in the horizon. The benefit of living this close to a national park is that we we aren't in a hurry to hike everything in a few days' time.
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