Surveying a Gym and taking an inventory of all the equipment you use will make you realize how expensive and daunting it is to create, or recreate, good fitness. However, both our RV lifestyle, and your average gym share the same problem: space. Gyms can only fit so much equipment and like us, you likely have had … Continue reading Exercise Gear for the Road: The Little Things
Exercise Gear for the Road: The “Perfect” System
After training in, and becoming accustomed to, CrossFit style exercises, it was quickly apparent that we would be compromising our fitness adapting to the RV lifestyle. Barbells and bumper plates are not a practical piece of equipment in an RV. We searched for something that could: Recreate or simulate movements like Deadlifts, Snatches, Cleans, Weighted … Continue reading Exercise Gear for the Road: The “Perfect” System
Digital presence and our absence
You would think with the world so connected these days that we would unconsciously be sharing our story, but we’re not. It is hard to script days, it is hard to make trips into a show-and-tell, and having never been someplace makes it extra hard to appreciate it until after you’ve seen it. I am … Continue reading Digital presence and our absence
Florida Update Video!
Apologies
We have been going full-throttle for the past few weeks. We promise an update video is coming soon. In the meantime, have a great week, we are heading to Florida 😎
Unexpected Treasures
There are many things we know we will see in our travels. Despite our efforts not to plan, we still have several waypoints, as well as a destination (for now). Hour after hour of pavement has passed under us, our scenery changing from sea, to mountain, to sea again during our first weeks of travel . … Continue reading Unexpected Treasures
Yosemite
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir In the days leading up to our departure, Ian and I began watching Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The words of John Muir have been resonating with us since our departure, and for the past two days we … Continue reading Yosemite
Beginning the Coddiwomple (video)
Departure
For months now we have been slowly marching toward this day, endlessly encouraged by all of you reading this and more who are not. Weeks spent making preparations and researching to be sure that this entry would be made comfortably, and backed by nearly every solution to any problems that might have arose. Days dealing … Continue reading Departure
Departure is Imminent
Here I am, in Odessa, surrounded by white of snow steadily becoming a sheet of ice. Brewer is curled up in his bed napping, while Ian is borrowing Kenny's garage to change the oil and make a few modifications to Sheila, our new-to-us 1997 Subaru Outback. The list of things preventing us from taking off … Continue reading Departure is Imminent