A Year on the Road

Today was so cold and damp that we just stayed in. Doug spent some time sorting through a couple of leftover boxes while I organized the inside of the desk. Since we didn't do anything exciting, I thought you might be interested in a little update of our last year.

It's been a little over a year that we have been traveling and enjoying life as nomads. And while this life should never be reduced to statistics but sometimes it's fun to throw out a few facts.

In the last year, we visited six states. Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. We came really close to getting into Lousiana, Arkansas and Nevada but since we didn't stay there in the coach, it doesn't count.

We traveled 8,788 miles in our Alpine and even a bunch more in the car.

There were 58 unique parks where we hung our hats for anywhere from one night to one month. Several parks we visited more than once because our records show that we moved 71 times. Our trips have varied from 20 miles a day to over 300 miles a day. Let me tell you, 300 miles is toooooo much!
We try to keep our traveling days to under 150 miles. We're missing too much in between! There's no rush to get anywhere and we just love seeing everything. Mountains, valleys, oceans, rivers, deserts, rain, snow, glorious sunshine, blue skies, rainbows and more to come.

We've barely touched the U.S. yet I feel we have accomplished so much. This was a dream. A dream worth dreaming and we took it past wishing into reality.

As my old friend Cinderella used to say...a dream is a wish your heart makes

Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true

So, here's to whatever you happen to be wishing and dreaming today.