Life, what a ride for a dime!

This blog was originally started as a living record of our life and travels for our children to follow along as we moved around the United States. In hindsight my problem with WordPress changing format’s years ago as outlined in my final post, had more to do with my unwillingness to change my life then it had to do with WordPress format. If I could have recognized this back than I could have saved myself a lot of pain and misery. The one thing that I have proven to myself is that when I take control of my life and run around acting like I know everything, shooting from the hip when making decisions, that destruction is not far behind. You’ll see as the story unfolds it was almost total destruction!

So what is the blog now?

Well that’s complicated, but I suppose it comes down to having a place my kids can go to learn about their father after I’m gone, should they every want too. When I hung out with the ” friends of Bill W.” they taught me I can only keep what I have by giving it away. This is the story of one man’s journey from birth to nomadic recluse.

Disclaimer;

This is my story and I’m sharing it, if something helps you that’s great, if it does not help than discard it. The only education and degrees I have are from the school of hard knocks. They were not an accredited place of education, although I think they should be. In the story I am just telling the story the way I lived it and I hold no ill feelings or hatred for the people in the story including myself, we’re just people trying to figure out the mystery at is life.

About the author

I have come believe that I was created in the image of my Creator. If I surrender my will and my life to the care of my Creator as I understand him, my life gets a lot better.

I have come to believe every human being can operate out of good behavior or bad behavior the choice is ours.

I have come to believe that the cornerstones for a solid relationship with anyone is Honesty, Trust, and Communication. without these a relationship will collapse.

I have learned to search for what I don’t know instead of relaying on my own understanding.

I have come to believe that life is nothing more than a series of choices and the better we know ourselves the better we can make choices that make us happy.

Finally I have come to believe that we are all influenced initially by Genetics, environment, and life experiences, until we reach an age of accountability we have very little control over our influences.

Thanks for stopping bye and look for the next post ” What it was like”

Lets spend our time with a positive attitude searching for opportunity like a child searches for hidden treasure.

August 15, 2020

Welcome to the new folks who started following our travels. When we started this blog back in 2017 we wanted our friends and family to know what we were doing and where we were. The other reason was we wanted a journal of our travels to live forever online so our kids, grand-kids, and great grand-kids can read about our travels and see the places we’ve been. We hope that the writing and images will inspire you to go see places for yourself.

August 15, 2020 is the 5th anniversary of being on the road full-time. When we started this journey neither Darla or I had any measurable experience in RVing and we didn’t own an RV. When Darla found our rig on craigslist in AZ we didn’t even have a truck but we ‘re looking at 5th wheels go figure. Darla found this 2005 Keystone Cougar on craigslist, it turned out that we liked the trailer and the seller was also selling a 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 diesel so we bought the package.

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She’s been a good rig we’ve gone coast to coast with her and she’s never let us down. Now it’s time for an upgrade we need more storage in the bedroom and we want a true four seasons so we’ve been looking at 2016 Cougars we also like the 2016 Grand Design Reflection 337 rls.

Full-time RVers VS Nomads.

I think now we see ourselves more as nomads instead of full-time RVer. We move around the country looking for opportunity. Sometimes the opportunity is to spend time with friends and family. Sometimes it’s for workamping opportunities. We’ve found in our new lifestyle that sitting around to much makes the body hurt and we can trade labor for money to support our travels and even to upgrade the 5’er.

A couple of years ago we started our own online business IdealPhotoArt.com where we can post our travel photo and you can put them on coffee cups, framed art, tote bags just about anything you want to put an image. This year we switched platforms and now we’re so excited to be with Fine Arts America. I’m in the process of uploading 10k travel images. If you have a special place you wish you had on a t-shirt or coffee mug and you never captured an image of it, Than email us at idealphotoart.com@gmail.com give us the info to search our catalog for it or if we’re close we’ll go capture it for you.

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Walk down memory lane.

Thank you for stopping bye.

 

 

 

Welcome to Williams AZ.

Well our luck ran out in Oregon. We couldn’t s fine anywhere to park so we had to go. We decided to go to Williams AZ to get our kicks on route 66 for a couple of months until it cools down enough for us to go to our winter park. Our first outing was trying to find a place to walk Chill’n that has water and a place we can let him off the leash. We went to a place called Buckskinner Park it had water but no place for Chill’n to get off leash.

 

The next place was Cataract Lake Park. Again, nice but not right.

 

 

The quest continues. Thanks for stopping bye.

The Oregon Coast.

We took a drive over to Lincoln City and as far south as Newport to beat the heat.

We were doing a scenic drive and we stopped at a view point and down below was what seemed to be a baby whale. It never fully surfaced so I took some shots you be the judge.

 

We stopped at a beach down around Newport so Chill’n could get his paws in the water and a little walk in.

Thanks for visiting.

Battery 245 at Fort Stevens State Park.

This was an active military installation from the civil war days until the end of WWII. Chill’n enjoyed the soft grass.

 

Silver Falls, State Park, Silverton, OR

This is a huge state park the kind you want to pack a lunch and stay all day. The images below are of North Falls Trail. It was not dog friendly on the trail so we headed down to the South Falls Trail which is dog friendly on some trails.

 

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South Falls Trail.

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We have plans to return and hike to North Falls to shoot that.  Thanks for visiting our blog.