Showing posts with label RV pics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RV pics. Show all posts

8.28.2012

Westward Expansion 2012: Day 1

Yesterday we headed out on the trip we've been dreaming about: crossing the country to the west coast and back.  We settled on a southern route for this year's trip.  We start with Matt working in Kansas City and end with him working in Memphis.  The vacation falls in between:  Denver, Moab, Lake Powell (Lake Silencio for fellow Dr. Who fans), Grand Canyon, Yosemite, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Cruz (surf school!!), Venice Beach, Death Valley, Petrified Forest, and Roswell.  We aren't big planners and will likely make things up as we go, but this is the basic idea for the trip.

estimated list of stops

vague trip route

It turned out to be great timing for getting away for a while  We had been at our house for a full week between trips and someone reported us for having the RV parked in our driveway.  Zoning in our county doesn't allow that, so we're going to have to figure out what to do.  Storage isn't a practical option for us since we travel so regularly.  We may have to add in a concrete pad at the side of our house, which is allowable according to zoning regulations but seems wasteful and silly since the RV will still be in view and we already have a concrete pad at our house -- the driveway.  I'm hoping everyone likes this trip so much they just want to live in the RV fulltime and ditch suburban neighborhood life for good!

Spent last week finishing painting and remodeling the interior of the RV (will get before/after photos posted eventually!) and getting some books and other activities together for the longer drives.  We also have Minecraft, some new field guides (everyone's interested in the southwestern, new-to-us wildlife), lots of legos, craft supplies, a guitar, and the x-box with us!


And we have Pablo, of course!

So long, Suburbia


Our first stop was in Frankfort to see Matt's brother's new home and visit with his mom, brother, sister and her kids and grandkids.  

 Cousins!

After that, we did our moral duty as people who grew up in Frankfort but no longer live there and ate dinner at Taco Johns.  The rest of the evening was spent driving westward into the sunset and feeling greasy and  dehydrated from the ridiculous amount of salt and oil we ate in those gross-yet-awesome Potato Ole's.  

7.30.2012

Adding a Bunk

We needed one more place to sleep in our RV.  We have a full-sized bed that for Matt and me, a jackknife couch that Riley has claimed, and then Maya and Seth were sharing the dinette bed.  Turns out Seth is a big old floppy kicker, so Maya wasn't sleeping so well.  Matt did some research and landed on the idea to convert the storage area over the dinette into a bunk.

 Relocating the games, arts and crafts, drawing/writing supplies, etc. over the couch

 Testing out the space before the bunk was added

 Painting the bunk area

Maya approves!

with Love,
Holly

7.29.2012

First Meal on the RV!


Welcome!

Welcome to our new blog!  I've previously blogged at Unschooling Snapshots, which served as a photo journal of our family's earlier unschooling years.  I haven't blogged there much recently so I thought I would start fresh here with a focus on the latest twist in our lives:  RV travel.  I have dreamed of traveling full-time in an RV for several years.  We started traveling more when my husband got a home-based job with his company that involved weekday travel about 3 weeks a month.  Since we unschool anyway, the kids and I often tagged along on his trips, taking interesting side trips near where he was working.  We traveled by mini-van, staying in hotels, to Washington DC; New York City;  Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Hershey, PA; Memphis; Dallas; Chicago; Kansas City; Baltimore; and many other places.  Finally, in May of this year, we were able to purchase our RV:  a Class A 1993 Winnebago Brave. We still have our sticks-and-bricks house, but more and more the RV is becoming home.

Our very own T.A.R.D.I.S.  We call him Harvey the RV. 


with Love,
Holly