Category Archives: Before the Trip

Country Living in Montana

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The construction crew for this particular weekend

We’ve spent most of the past week visiting our friends Laura and Eric near Whitefish Montana.  This will be the last week I’m working before my two months of time off begin and I don’t need Internet access all day.  In fact, as I type this I’ve just finished my last day of work before said time off, so this was my last week working for awhile.  Woot!  I still almost can’t believe that I’ve been able to work from so many places, but really more can’t believe that most people still go into offices everyday.  There’s things I miss about working in an office, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to go back to full time office work after working from home or wherever there’s Internet the last few years. Continue reading Country Living in Montana →

Out of Our House, Into the Next

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From our rental house the view of the fireworks over the lake
From our rental house the view of the fireworks over the lake

Our adventure is beginning gradually,  which is a very good thing.  Even though we packed up all our stuff and rented our house out, the time off,  road trip portion of the adventure hasn’t begun yet.  Instead we’re getting our home base established at my parents’ house in Eastern Washington:  storing stuff,  changing addresses,  updating insurance and all those other mundane things necessary to make sure life functions smoothly while we’re on the road and away from civilization. Continue reading Out of Our House, Into the Next →

The journey of 1000 miles begins with about 1000 steps

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Just beginning to fill this basement room with all our stuff

It’s begun!  The journey part that is.  For those that don’t know we’re currently living in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho for the month of July and starting in August I’ll be taking 2 months off work where we’ll be doing a road trip with the goal of reaching somewhere cool in Mexico.  The steps leading up to this journey started months ago and that’s really what this first post is about.  This journey began months ago, and there were so many things that had to happen to even begin. Continue reading The journey of 1000 miles begins with about 1000 steps →