Author: The Duck

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 […]

It has been a couple weeks since our last update and there are a few things to get caught up on… After spending Christmas in Carlsbad, NM, we were finally able to get the repairs done on the 5th wheel and get back on the road. The new leaf springs seem to have fixed our […]

Not too much to update. We’re still in Carlsbad, NM, waiting for the 5th wheel parts to be shipped to the repair shop so we can get the leaf springs and hydraulic jack leg taken care of and get back out on the road. I talked to the shop yesterday and it looks like the […]

Well, it looks like we’ll be staying in the Carlsbad area a bit longer than expected but it’s for a good cause. Back in July, when we were traveling through Nevada, we had an unexpected stop in Ely to have a wheel issue repaired. At the time we noticed the tread on one of the […]

Today marks the end of our longest boondocking stay so far, 14 days and 13 nights. The goal of this trip was to test our limits and see how easily we can handle two-weeks off-grid. And overall things went very well. (Editor’s note: the next few paragraphs go into detail on our water, propane, and […]

Last Sunday we made it to our boondocking spot down near Carlsbad, New Mexico, without any trouble but my hope for fewer things shaking the 5th wheel did not come to pass. It has been super windy, pretty much since we got here. The 5th wheel is holding up fine but we get some decent […]