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Summer to Remember

A collection of 13 posts

A summer of food

A summer of food

💡We're recapping the 20 goals we planned for summer! If you missed the previous posts, find them here: Part 1 Part 2 Want to read our previous Summer to Remember Series posts? Here's the link. We typically start brainstorming our Summer to Remember goals in early

A Summer to Remember in 2026: Part 2

Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember in 2026: Part 2

💡We're recapping our summer by sharing the goals we aimed to complete between Memorial and Labor Day weekends! If you missed Part 1, find it here. Against all odds, we made it to New England for our only summer RV trip. Its purpose was productivity; we had to

A Summer to Remember in 2026

Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember in 2026

The time has come once again, to share our list of summer goals and recap this busy season. Only this time, things looked a bit different. For the past 3 years, we blogged about our summers of travel, scooting to multiple states, and last year, even journeying across the whole

We played cross-country blackout Bingo from California to Massachusetts

RV Life Season 4

We played cross-country blackout Bingo from California to Massachusetts

For Summer to Remember this year, we opted out of our usual challenges to hike and/or ebike 100 miles from Memorial Day to Labor Day Weekends. We learned our lesson from previous years and didn't want to end up resenting our outdoor time, which was supposed to

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

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

A Summer to Remember in 2025

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

We let Gemini decide our bike route (100 miles of ebiking conclusion)

We let Gemini decide our bike route (100 miles of ebiking conclusion)

💡Continued from Mistakes Were Made. Or read our entire Summer to Remember recap here. We had fallen way behind in our goal to ebike 100 miles during the summer, and to make matters worse, we had just gotten ourselves stuck in a thunderstorm, attempting to haul 130lb of ebike through

Mistakes were made! 100 miles of ebiking

Mistakes were made! 100 miles of ebiking

💡Read it first: Our Summer to Remember recap and our other 100-mile challenge. Last year for our Summer to Remember list, we challenged ourselves to hike 100 miles between Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends. Some of it was enjoyable, but we noticed that when we had opportunities to

We're never doing this again.

RV Life Season 3

We're never doing this again.

Continued from A Summer to Remember in 2024. For the second year in a row, we set out to hike 100 miles during our Summer to Remember challenge. We don't exactly know why we thought this would be a good idea. Last year, we practically melted on most

A Summer to Remember in 2024

RV Life Season 3

A Summer to Remember in 2024

Three years of Summer to Remember goals during our RV travels! See the blog posts below to catch up on previous years. 2022 A Summer to Remember in 2022Before we set off on the RV life, we learned a lot about RVing by watching YouTube channels. One channel is Keep

Drives, bikes, hikes...and a cold plunge?! Summer to Remember 2023

RV Life Season 2

Drives, bikes, hikes...and a cold plunge?! Summer to Remember 2023

Continued from A Summer to Remember in 2023 From Memorial Day through Labor Day, we set out to complete 20 summer goals in order to keep excitement and adventure at the forefront of our season. Some goals were easy to check off, while others met some adversity, usually in the

A Summer to Remember in 2023

A Summer to Remember in 2023

For the third year in a row, we have joined up with other members of the RV Community to tackle a summer bucket list challenge. It's headed up by full-timers Keep Your Daydream, and the beauty of the list is, you can make it anything you want!

A Summer to Remember in 2022

RV Life Season 1

A Summer to Remember in 2022

Before we set off on the RV life, we learned a lot about RVing by watching YouTube channels. One channel is Keep Your Daydream, a popular channel filled with vlogs, tips, and more. Since 2013, the Leach family has written down a Summer Fun List, with the whole family contributing