We’ve now been at Cape Blanco for just over a week. We’ve completed our first full set of volunteer shifts, and start another today. There are 4 volunteer couples and we work on a rotational schedule of three days in a row (an afternoon shift, a full 6 hr day, then a morning shift), get […]
Life on the Road
Our Way Too Quick Trip to Cape Blanco
It’s always a balancing act when you have a destination and arrival date, and a lot of friends along the way to visit. Our arrival date for orientation for our Lighthouse Duties at Cape Blanco was quickly approaching, and we only had 3 nights left. And we had 3 sets of friends we wanted to […]
Home on the Ranch – A Cat Family Reunion
I have been so excited these past few weeks (well, as excited as cats get). My people said we were going to this place called Oregon, which is where I was born! In 2008 Chris and Cherie arrived to their friend’s ranch in Lebanon, OR to discover there were kittens running the place! I hopped […]
Following the Gorge into Portland
Whew, it’s been a crazy and amazing couple of weeks and I’m a few miles behind on updating the travelogue. I’ll try to rectify that this week now that we’re settled in at our lighthouse hosting gig and will have lots more free time for writing. Let’s see… last we updated we had finally just […]
Don’t Fight the Current… Adjust the Sails!
Want to know one of the secrets to happiness? Happiness is an attitude, not a thing that happens. You can’t create it, you have to start with it. Like sailing, you can either become frustrated fighting the currents, or you can adjust the sails with an excitement towards the future. I was pretty decent at […]
Our 10 Most Surprising Things about Full Time RVing
A recent question asked in a RVing group: ‘What has been some of the most surprising things about RVing that you discovered?’. That’s a great question, and I thought this might make a fun little blog post. So here goes… in our experience, some of the most surprising discoveries of our full time RVing lifestyle […]
Rebuilding an 8V-71 Detroit Diesel Engine
It took longer than any of us imagined it might. When we broke down on June 14th, the thought that we might still be in Billings when Cherie’s 40th birthday rolled around on August 4th seemed like something to joke about. That was over a month off! Even considering the time it took us to […]
The Technomads have Left Montana!
After a night of rocking blues in Billings, Montana to celebrate the completion of our engine rebuild.. it was time to hit the open roads! It’s been quite a bizarre feeling mixed with excitement and daze. I can only imagine it’s similar to a young bird getting kicked out of their nest to go explore […]
Vrooms & Blues
We had a delightful and recharging stay at Spring Creek Campground (our review) just outside Big Timber, MT. We don’t know how much of our experience there was just juxtaposition to our stay of 6 weeks in a parking lot, or if the campground really was that awesome – but it was just what we […]
On the Road Again!!!!
We can’t thank the team at Interstate PowerSystems in Billings, MT enough for their efforts this past week during our engine re-install after the rebuild. They all put in long hours. They tackled each obstacle head on. All with one goal – to get us back on the road in time for my birthday yesterday. […]