Outdoor Adventure

Watkins Glen hikes - the famous Gorge Trail and more!

Watkins Glen, New York. We have had our eye on this place. In 2022, we set our sights on Watkins Glen State Park, with plans to stop there on our way back from Niagara Falls. We didn't have solar yet, so we tried to grab one of the

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An unforeseen return to one of the most comforting places in the US

After leaving Michigan, we had hoped to get our axles replaced down in Fort Wayne, but our timing didn't line up with the axle build. Living with constant worry that our suspension will fail and force us off the road is not fun, but so far, these axles

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Constant axle issues! We feared a faulty trailer frame was to blame.

We often have fellow RVers ask us when we purchased our RV. We tell people that we custom ordered it in 2020 and took delivery in 2021. Questions immediately follow: "Oh wow, how has it been so far?" "Ooph, have you needed lots of repairs?" They

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Unpopular opinion: Michigan's Lower Peninsula is better than the Upper Peninsula

Even though we checked off Michigan as a state RVed in 2022, it came with a disclaimer: We had hit it during our RV travels, but we hadn't actually brought our RV up there. How did this happen? We dropped our RV off for repairs in Indiana and

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A Very Merry Cherry Fest in Traverse City, MI

Our northern Midwest "loopy" was almost complete. We traveled up through Wisconsin, made a stop in Door County, then went from west to east in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, before crossing the Mackinac Bridge back down to the Lower Peninsula. The loopy was a bit of a

RV Problems

What our bidet taught us about our RV's black tank

One year ago, we were looking for ways to boost our morale in Wyoming. We ended up at Longhorn Ranch, an RV park that turned out to be a welcome regrouping stop, and a stay that brought us a lot of dear memories. One of those memories was the purchasing

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We got had on Mackinac Island

Our travels took us across the UP from west to east, landing us at Straits State Park, right along the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced MACK-in-aw), where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet. The must-see feature of this area is the Mackinac Bridge, a 5-mile-long towering spectacle that takes vehicles from

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I RV UP

When we decided to travel the Midwest this year, we set the goal to visit the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the summer. This became the "big dot" on our travel route, aka the sought-after destination that we would plan other travels around. We knew we wanted to

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Finding nostalgia in Door County, Wisconsin

We had two weeks to make our way through Wisconsin and over to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We expected a state filled with farmland, cheese, ice cream, beer, and Bavarian pretzels. True, there was a lot of all of the above, but like so many states we've

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We went to a goat parade!

For being the science-brained couple that we are, we do surprisingly little research on places before we go. We always do just enough to know where we're going, and if it's a "big dot" on our travel route, we'll plan excursions ahead

Weather/Natural Disasters

Tornado warning! Wild weather welcomes us to Wisconsin

After getting our rig back from repairs, we spent a couple of nights voyaging through Illinois before settling across the border in Wisconsin. That night, this beautiful sunset greeted us. Our site backed up to a large pasture, and we felt the country vibes of America's Dairyland. We

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May-hem

On the first day of each month, we share a "one clip a day" video recap on Instagram and Facebook, along with a short caption to summarize the adventures had that month. On May 1, while sharing the April recap, I wrote about the polarizing craziness that was

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

Recapping our great success! (HH/BW Challenge Series Finale)

💡We're summing up our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge! Catch up on all the blog posts in this series. Want to try Harvest Hosts for 15% off? Click here! When we committed to staying at only Harvest Hosts and Boondockers Welcome locations for 27 straight nights, we knew

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Our last day left us completely winded (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡We're coming to the end of our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge Series! If you need to catch up on the posts, you can find them all here. We set our alarms for before dawn, but I had been up since 3:30AM, unable to fall back asleep.

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More problems we can't escape from (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Don't forget about our link to get 15% off your first year of a Harvest Hosts membership! We spent three nights living in the land of magnificent sunsets. We were happy to have clear skies for a few days, but springtime is a season of extremes, and soon

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This was so disappointing (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡We challenged ourselves to stay at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations for 4 weeks! Catch up on the series here. We had successfully completed 18/27 nights in our challenge, and so far, this was the breakdown: * 12 nights at Harvest Hosts: -4 at vineyards -3 at farms -2

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

We just had to go back! (HH/BW Challenge Series)

When we told our fellow RVers that we were doing this challenge, we had resounding positive reactions to Harvest Hosts, and rightly so. We also had a few people tell us it sounded more like a fun adventure than a challenge. We always try to have fun when we challenge

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

Is this cheating? (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Here are all of the important links before we jump into today's post: We've got your 15% off Harvest Hosts link. We've got the link to all our posts in this series. And we've got the link for you to subscribe to

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We crossed state borders for this alpaca farm (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡In this post, we cross the halfway point of our challenge! If you missed the first 2 weeks, catch up on all the posts here. In doing this Harvest Hosts challenge, we've come to realize that we need to strike a balance between shorter and longer drive days.

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A tale of three cheesecakes (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Fancy seeing you here! If you're just joining us, we've been recapping our challenge to spend 4 weeks at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations. You can read the whole shebang right here. Harvest Hosts is an RV membership program that allows you to stay at

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The heat that almost killed us (HH/BW Challenge Series)

We are convinced that our RV is thermophobic. Every time the temperatures rise, we end up with a whole list of problems, as our components start shutting down one after another. Remember this? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brighter on Wheels | Full-Time RV Travelers (@brighter_on_

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Finagling our way south (HH/BW Challenge Series)

We are challenging ourselves to stay at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations for 4 weeks. On one hand, it's an exciting prospect! On the other hand, we didn't realize how all-consuming this would be. It seemed like every free minute we had, we were either

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

The surprise jousting tournament (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡First things first: Let's catch you up! We are in the middle of challenging ourselves to camp at ONLY Harvest Hosts and Boondockers Welcome properties for 4 weeks. This means overnighting only at designated businesses and private properties, and trust us, it ain't easy! But it

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Passing through Uranus (a subscribers-only bonus post!)

The beginning of our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome challenge was intense, to say the least. We went from a season of slow travel and suddenly thrusted ourselves into a month of traveling almost every single day. Planning our schedule while including factors like work and weather was daunting. However, we&

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We were declined! (HH/BW Challenge Series)

The weather was looking dreary in and around St. Louis for the first weekend of our Harvest Hosts challenge. Chances of rain and wind meant we needed to stay diligent with our travel plans. We booked our locations so that, if we did need to drive during bad weather, the