A Look Backward and Forward Although I might have been able to suspect it beforehand, our choice to do vanlife was one of the best decisions Faith and I have ever made. God opened the door for us to travel the country and see more friends, family, and beautiful places than we can count. Some… Read more

A Mound and an Arch The following morning, we bid Mike and Susan a fond farewell and hit the road east and south towards Poverty Point National Monument in northeastern Louisiana. Neither of us had a clue what was there, but we’re always down to bag another National Park or Monument. The drive was nice:… Read more

New Ribs and Stew The next morning, we got up early thanks to the noise of traffic and wandered back to Bathhouse Row. After getting ready for the day, we spent the next few hours exploring one of the old hot spring bathhouses that had been converted into a museum. It was very cool, featuring… Read more

BBQ and a Baby Coon The next morning, we went back to the coffee shop that I worked at on Friday to have breakfast with Sheryl, Faith’s grandma, before hitting the road south to our next destination. We got on I-29 and followed it along the Missouri River until we made it to Kansas City,… Read more

Frolf and Fall Colors The next two days, Tuesday and Wednesday, were pretty similar to each other: get up and work through the morning to the mid-afternoon, take a break to go on a walk at the park with my mom and Faith, then get a bit more work done before having dinner and hanging… Read more

Virginia(s) and Westward The next morning, we awoke deep in the forest and made our way back to Gettysburg to make a brief stop at the visitor center to pick up the obligatory postcard. Once acquired, we started driving south and west towards our next destination: Shenandoah National Park. We quickly began to enter more… Read more

Bad Plugs and Battlefields The next morning, we watched a beautiful sunrise over the marshes before meandering back to the highway to head up the coast once again. We were planning on spending the day similar to the last: stopping at various thrift and other stores as we continued north. We started off the morning… Read more

The Outer Banks The next morning, we got up early and started driving before any of the locals could get suspicious. It was still the work week, and I had some presentations to give, so we decided to find a coffee shop to work at for a while. We ended up stopping at a lively… Read more

Hurricane Helene The next day, we got up and started heading east from Murfreesboro. Our original plan had been to spend the weekend in Pigeon Forge, TN, Gatlinburg, TN, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Asheville, NC. Unfortunately, those places had already gotten a lot of rain and expected to get hit by hurricane Helene… Read more

Boats, Caves, and Honky-tonks The next day, we got up with our hosts, Sheila and Geoff, and accompanied them to church. Faith and I have never been to a Pentecostal/Charismatic church before, and the day we were there featured a faith healer from Colorado. Suffice to say, we were out of our element and saw… Read more