Outdoor Adventure

A collection of 134 posts

Campground Reviews

Turning to a SC state park to find RV life joy again

Continued from Our inverter replacement did not go as planned What was supposed to be a 2-hour displacement turned into a whole day of sitting in the truck in nearly 100-degree temperatures. EcoEthic Solar didn't have it any easier. They thought they had scheduled a straightforward

Wildlife

Beyond a birthday celebration

We spent many birthdays on the road, celebrating in various parts of the country. As you read in the last post, we had just as much fun spending birthdays in grand destinations as we did in hidden gems that most vacationers would never visit. Over the years, we grew to

RVing With Pets

Dog-friendly St. Augustine

Continued from An impromptu vacation to St. Augustine. Thanks to a very long, grueling trolley tour, we had run out of time to do most of the things we wanted on our 2nd day of exploring St. Augustine. We ended up abandoning our tour, getting our truck, and driving closer

RV Life Season 5

An impromptu vacation to St. Augustine

We had a drive day where tire observation took priority and our destination remained unknown for hours. Over many, many miles, we began trusting that our tire was holding air, and we could finally shift our priority to finding our home for the night. "You know where I'

Campground Reviews

Returning to Assateague Island 9 years later

We've now traveled to 47 states and are into our 5th year of full-time RVing. We've covered tens of thousands of miles and stayed in hundreds of campsites and overnight parking spots. So when a place that we visited way back in 2017 still stands

RV Life Season 4

Are we tourists or locals? Getting our bearings in NH

One drizzly evening in October, Anthony and I were running errands sans GPS, up and down Route 104 in New Hampshire's Lakes Region. Suddenly, it dawned on us. Somewhere between our month-long stay in MA and moving up to our land, we became New Hampshirites. It was

RV Life Season 4

Beyond Acadia: Excursions in Southwest Harbor, Bar Harbor, and Ellsworth, Maine

In our last post, we covered our recommendations on what to see and what to skip during your trip to Acadia National Park. Now, we're venturing outside park boundaries, to the park's gateway towns. When we took our trip to Acadia in 2019, we chose to

RV Life Season 4

The Acadia itinerary: What to see and what to skip

Acadia was our second National Park visit of all time, and one of the easier to check off the list as New Englanders. We went in late September 2019 for a weekend getaway, back when we knew little about navigating national park visits. Since then, we have gone from national

RV Life Season 4

Our first RV trip?! Fall weather fun in Freeport, ME

After 6 months traveling across the country, we returned to New England and slowed our pace. We spent 7 weeks bouncing between our two home-bases: My parents' driveway in MA and our land in NH. During this time, we were dealing with upheaval, as life threw a lot

RV Life Season 4

It's our favorite place in the US, but so many RVers skip it

We've talked a lot about our love for New Hampshire in the blog. Our rivers run deep, as this was the state where I "came of age" as both a young adult and a musician, where we took many day trips when we first started dating,

Summer to Remember

Past the pivot point: Summer goals amidst a time of upheaval

Continued from A Summer to Remember in 2025 The first 9 weeks of our summer consisted of leaving the West, traveling across the country, stopping in the Midwest for repairs and cats, and then making our way to our home state of Massachusetts. Already, the summer was crazy. We covered

Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember in 2025

Since 2021, we've partaken in Summer to Remember. Started by the Leach family (Keep Your Daydream), it's a customizable summer goals list to help us remember what we want to prioritize during a season that can get very busy. We've used our list for

RV Life Season 4

We camped on a bison ranch in Wyoming!

We were more indecisive than ever as we tried to figure out our route east. Should we stop at some favorite destinations, or should we cover more distance faster? In the end, we had to face the fact that our cups were overflowing with all of the grand adventures we

Outdoor Adventure

The Wasatch Mountains Underground

Continued from Utah Redemption: Wasatch Mountains Edition. We got into a groove with Utah this year, dealing with the hard stuff like axle repairs and then countering it with epic adventures in some wonderfully scenic parts of the state. After our first axle appointment, we headed south to Red Rock

RV Life Season 4

Utah Redemption: Wasatch Mountains Edition

It is true that we got a little sick of being in Utah for several weeks on end, back when we went straight from surgery and repairs to an epic Utah Redemption Tour in the red rocks. But that had nothing to do with Utah and everything to do with

RV Life Season 4

A Great Basin Birthday

We traveled America's Loneliest Road with a long-awaited destination in mind: Great Basin National Park. We initially thought we would take a winter trip to the park before landing ourselves in Utah for our axle appointment in March, but we ended up going to Utah early to

RV Life Season 4

RVing America's Loneliest Road, Part 3

Continued from Part 1 and Part 2. After a successful first overnight outside of Austin, NV, we were ready to hit the Loneliest Road once again. Day 2: Austin to Ely Our journey would take us another 3 hours without stops and end us in the town of Ely (pronounced

RV Life Season 4

RVing America's Loneliest Road, Part 2

Continued from Part 1. We sailed smoothly from Carson City to Austin on our first day on America's Loneliest Road. Austin, the halfway point on the road, would be our stop for the night, but two challenges awaited us. First, we were running on less than 50 towing

RV Life Season 4

RVing America's Loneliest Road, Part 1

The Backstory As you probably know by now, we set out on Season 4 of travels with Utah as our main destination. We needed to get our axles repaired south of Salt Lake City and then planned to head to the Mighty 5 national parks. What happened before and after

RV Life Season 4

Memorial Day Weekend in Lake Tahoe and Carson City, NV

In the RV community, Memorial Day Weekend is much anticipated. It's the unofficial start to summer, which means that many RVers who have had their rigs in storage for the winter finally take their babies out for a spin. Even though the RV season has been getting longer

RV Life Season 4

Chester, CA: Gateway to Lassen Volcanic National Park

We've been flexible as we've journeyed through the state of California. The biggest dot on our itinerary, and the only destination we planned ahead of time, was Yosemite National Park. We also assumed that this would be our last stop in the state before heading back

RV Life Season 4

The pin made us do it! Checking off Lassen Volcanic National Park

We have a unique way of tracking each National Park we visit. We don't do passport stamps or stickers. Instead, we collect pins and add them to a pin board, which we use as a decoration, first in our house, and now in our RV. I can'

RV Life Season 4

Dog-friendly Yosemite adventures

💡We're exploring Yosemite National Park! If you missed our last post, we hit the ground, rrr....climbing...with an epic hike to 2 waterfalls. We also found many reasons why Yosemite might just be our favorite National Park so far. See the post here. We were blown away

RV Life Season 4

Favorite national park? We might finally have our answer...

We often hear advice for full-time RVers to have some goals or a plan to help narrow down our travels. The United States is big, and we can't expect to see everything, nor would we necessarily want to. It's best to decide what we'

RV Life Season 4

Why RVing to Sequoia and Kings Canyon is so hard

When our travels this year brought us to central California, we thought long and hard about what destinations we'd want to include. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks had been on our bucket list for years, but we were hesitant to RV to them for a few reasons,