We share why we decided to invest in the “top tier” of the Thousand Trails campground membership program. We are not selling anything, we are sharing what works for us in case someone else has a similar lifestyle and can benefit from saving money in today’s increasingly more costly world of campground-based living. Continue reading Why Thousand Trails Adventures?
We finished up our COVID isolation in Tennessee, wrapped up our RV remodel, enjoyed some fun with the Great American Crawl at Windrock OHV park, celebrated some holiday time together with Wisconsin friends, and left Tennessee missing two of our furry friends. Continue reading This Little Piggy Got Crawled and our Thanksgiving Loss
We made our annual visit to Manassas, Virginia, after we left the Reading, Pennsylvania, area. While there we did some remodeling in the RV, and we caught COVID-19 from Jason’s visit to the FCC in Washington DC. Continue reading Remodeling the RV with Cooties
We finally have a resolution after more than a year of nightmares in trying to diagnose our 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon issues with engine codes and performance problems. There are very few answers to these codes on the internet, we think this is truly the first honest diagnostic answer to this problem! (After 3 months now, we believe we can confidently say this was indeed the resolution.) Continue reading The Jeep is Finally….Fixed!(?) P0345, P0349, P0390, P0394
After leaving a little behind schedule from Wisconsin, we headed to State College, Pennsylvania, to have our Jeep checked out by a Youtubing automotive diagnostician. We stopped over in the Amish community Shipshewana for the weekend, stocking up on RV parts, and baked goods, and witnessed the six-horse-hitch world championships for 2023. Plus, we celebrated Barb’s birthday with a fun fall leaf-peeping train adventure. Continue reading Leaf Peeping on the Reading
Jason was very busy this summer at work with the culmination of a multi-year network upgrade project and Barb used this opportunity to spend many weeks with the daughter, granddaughter, and family. This post will highlight a few important events that occurred over the summer during the family recharge time. Continue reading Summary of Summer 2023
We made our final push to Wisconsin after spending two weeks in Moab, Utah. We left Moab at noon after the final meet and greet event was over and arrived back in Wisconsin on May 11, 2023. Due to leaving this late in the day, it took us an extra night to get back to Wisconsin, staying at Harvest Hosts for three nights. The arrival in Wisconsin, as seems to be usual now, was celebrated with a frosty mug of root beer at A&W in Baldwin, Wisconsin. Continue reading Oma Gets Kidnapped!
We may have a new favorite national park now! In this blog post, an Escapees Off-Roading HOP adventure in Moab was our final spring 2023 destination before returning to Wisconsin. While the event itself was only 4 days, we were in Moab for a total of 14 and were able to get out on many trails. There had been talk for years that trails would be closed by the Bureau of Land Management and since we were there some of these trails are indeed now closed. Continue reading Spring 2023: Escapees Off-Road HOP
We finish our time in Texas and travel the 1,093 miles (17 hours) to re-position from Austin, Texas, up to Moab, Utah, for some off-road fun. Continue reading Travel Through Four Corners Area
After we left the Orlando, Florida, area we made our way over the panhandle, stopped overnight outside of Mobile, Alabama, and continued over the Gulf of Mexico to our second “home” of Livingston, Texas. Continue reading The Eggs are Bigger in Texas
