We spent most of August circling around North Carolina visiting friends and family. At the end of August we spent a few days at the lake with Jeremy’s sister, Carly, and her family. We also made our way down to Charlotte where Snack Box got to make some new friends watching football at Stevie & Haley’s house. After that we […]
We’ve been in the good Old North State for a little under 3 months now continuing our organized randomness lifestyle primarily in Raleigh, Asheville, and at the lake in Littleton. Lakelife: We started off our return with two lake weekends at the end of May and the again for the 4th of July. We got in some tubing, brought out […]
I’ve been going to Teppanyaki (Kanki, Benihana, etc.) for my birthday for most of my life. It’s a bit silly but I like the food, the show is fun, and it always feels like a celebration. It’s always a good time. So when Stacey gifted me Kanki’s Master Chef course, I was through the roof. The course is 90 minutes […]
We’ve spent about 10 days, slowly traveling from Texas, back to NC, where we finally had our chance to explore the states of the ‘deep south’. This is the end of our cross-country trip, but certainly not the end of our travels. As a ‘homeful’ couple (as Stacey likes to say), the travels never end. NC is our ‘home’ because […]
Welcome to Texas! Bring on the heat, dust, and big trucks and leave your vegetables at the border. We spent the next six days driving across Texas. Our first day we only dipped our toes in by staying at New Mexico’s oldest winery that happens to be a couple of miles from the NM-TX border. The closest restaurants were in […]
The Snack Box, Stacey, and I are back in the RV! We love our little camper trailer and were very excited to get back to our life on the road, where we’ll spend most of May. Johnson’s Itty Bitty Farm Our first stop took us to Johnson’s Itty Bitty Farm in Boone, CO, where we met some of the most […]
It’s Coulier Season, baby! For those asking yourself, “What is he talking about this time?” I’ll explain: Wikipedia says, “A couloir may be a seam, scar, fissure, or vertical crevasse in an otherwise solid mountain mass.” Skiing these features can be super dangerous due to avalanche danger… But in April, the snow pack begins to become safer — hence, Coulier Season. In […]
Where did April go?! The end of March and April involved more traveling around and we didn’t do a great job of keeping up. Here’s a recap of what we’ve been up to the last 45 days before we embark on our journey back east! So, the day before we were supposed to leave Utah for Colorado we had our […]
We love the backcountry and Utah has some of the best backcountry around. Why Utah? The snow stays fresh longer, the approaches (flat hike sections) are shorter, and there are huge expanses of (relatively) avalanche safe, skiable terrain. Plus, the weather is great and it’s on the western edge of the MT time zone (giving us an extra hour of […]
About 1.5 years ago (December 2022) we started pet/housesitting. In writing this I realized we need to write one or two more posts related to why we started pet sitting, but for now I’ll just tackle the “how.” We pet sit through two programs – TrustedHousesitters (TH) and Rover. In both programs pet sitters and owners have profiles, and like […]