Author: The Duck

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 […]

It was a productive and relaxing week at our lakeside boondocking site. Well, relaxing except for one of the most frightening things I’ve ever experienced. Our spot was just a few miles from Holloman Air Force Base and all week we had a squadron of F-16 jets flying training runs overhead (for a kid who […]

The week in El Paso went by quickly, and that’s a good thing. With about a million people (plus another 2.5 million in Juarez across the border) it’s a big, noisy, dirty city and not quite on par with most of the places we’ve been staying so far. The only reason we were in El […]

We had a really great two weeks in Tucson, but it was also a little exhausting with everything we tried to pack into those 14 days. Up until Tucson we hadn’t really been going out to eat much or experiencing much of the nightlife of the cities and towns we’ve passed through and I think […]

Today is our 6-month anniversary of being on the road full time. It’s such a weird feeling because on one hand it feels like we have done 6 years’ worth of adventures over the last 6 months but on the other hand it feels like we just left Portland yesterday. The one thing we know […]