Author: The Duck

No, we did not suffer another hail tornado (as the thumbnail picture for this post might suggest) but we are still dealing with the ramifications. As Lauren mentioned in her most recent post, we’re finally back out on the road, and we have a busy travel season planned for 2025. Or at least we did […]

According to good ol’ Albert Einstein, time is relative – the rate at which time passes depends on the observer’s frame of reference. According to Lauren and Scott, we concur. Some days can seemingly drag on and on, while other times it feels as though entire weeks pass by in the blink of an eye. […]

In the middle of 2024 I wrote a post covering the numbers behind our first year on the road, which covered April 29, 2023, through April 28, 2024.  But I’d much rather make annual recaps based on each calendar year, so this post is intended to make that change.  Some of the miles, routes, stops, […]

We know, we know… It has been a little over four months since our last update.  Not much happens in four months, right?  Ha! When we left off, Lauren had just written about our “hail tornado” experience in Devils Tower, Wyoming. When the dust (or hail) settled after that exciting adventure we limped our way […]

I know it’s only early August, but it’s starting to feel like summer is coming to an end. We finally(!) are experiencing some cooler temps with highs recently only in the mid 80s instead of the upper 90s.  We looked back at some of our weather station data and we’ve had at least one day […]

A couple months ago, in our anniversary post, I mentioned I would go into a bit more depth at some point on the types of places we stayed at and how much we spent on gas and repairs and campground fees during our first full year on the road.  Well, today is the day.  Get […]

Our ongoing property search has brought us to Pocatello, Idaho.  We have been here since last weekend and will probably stick around this area for another week or two.  Most of our first week has been spent out looking at properties and the good news is, after an unsuccessful search in Utah, we have found […]

Back when I was a little kid I remember watching a television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy called “In Search Of…” and the premise of the show was to investigate mysterious phenomena.  Each episode would search for evidence of things like the Bermuda Triangle or go on the hunt for Bigfoot and the Loch Ness […]

It feels like we’ve been wandering the desert forever. Ever since we left Denver in September of last year, we’ve spent the majority of the last 9 months in either the Great Basin, Sonoran, or Chihuahuan desert.  And while our next few stops in Utah will technically still be in the Great Basin Desert, we’ll […]

Today is our official, one-year “full-time living on the road adventure” anniversary.  One year ago, on April 29, 2023, we walked out the front door of our house in Portland for the last time and spent a night in our 5th wheel for the first time. That first night feels like it was so long […]