Friday morning, we had a rental car reserved for pickup at a nearby hotel…Connor was flying in from Ohio around noon, and between picking him up/dropping him off at the airport and keeping ourselves entertained for the weekend, we decided a car would be our best bet. From our...

Departure Day has arrived! We left Rochester shortly after 9am. We quickly learned a few things: The touchscreen on the dash was NOT installed properly. It keeps shifting and the radio knob keeps falling off (it’s now in my pocket so we don’t lose it!). Ugh. Back to the...

A few days later, on Good Friday, heading into the Easter holiday weekend (isn’t that always when you find issues?!?), we were at the RV and smelled gasoline. Uh oh. Within a few minutes, Mark had found the issue, and it is definitely one of those “can’t anyone do...

Picking up the RV from winter storage was exciting – it meant that our first trip was coming soon and we would finally hit the road and start our ‘official’ retirement! We delayed pickup by a day when high winds were forecast in Rochester…didn’t seem like the best idea...

Our RV journey began about 27 years ago (1994), not long after Mark and I started dating. We would sometimes talk about how cool it would be to have an RV and travel around the country when we retired. Fast forward a bunch of years, and as our retirement...