Boyinks4Adventure

This past February we had the privilege of meeting up with another RV-living, road-tripping family, the Ticknors. The adults and kids hit it off so well during our short time together that we had hopes of meeting up with them again in Montana (where they spend the summer). This week, we got our chance. On our way to Yellowstone, we took a short detour to Helena for an afternoon of…   Read More >>

We left the Olympic Peninsula on a Tuesday. Spent the day in Seattle on Wednesday. Drove a few hours and stayed over night in Vantage, WA on Thursday (I still had to shower in our tiny trailer shower because I didn’t want to pay for a shower at the state park). Stopped in Spokane for a quick RV check and lunch with fellow ExpressionEngine developer Jeff Claeson on Friday afternoon…   Read More >>

“You guys have guts.” “You’re pretty brave.” “That takes some big ____’s” “It’s a bit risky, isn’t it?” Over the past 11 months we’ve had dozens of conversations about this big adventure we’re on.  People have stopped us at rest areas and grocery stores, walked into our campsites at campgrounds, and sent us email after following us through small rural towns - all after seeing the “Family of four on…   Read More >>

Our first destination after wrapping our camp-hosting job in the Olympic Peninsula was Seattle.  While we thought we might get there while camp-hosting, what we found was that while as the crow flies the two locations were decently close, the trip was made more complex by all the water in the area.  The drive could be short but expensive using the local ferries, or cheaper but longer by driving around. …   Read More >>

This week found us getting a bit of media attention for our family adventure; some real and some proposed but declined.  Let’s start with the latter. A little over a week ago I received the following email: My name is ________ and I work in the Casting & Talent Development Department at _______________ in Burbank, CA. We are a television production company that produces many hours of on-air programming. I…   Read More >>

We finally made it out to complete our waterfall hat-trick and it’s a good thing we didn’t try to see them after Madison and Merimere Falls.  The Sol Duc trailhead is 12 miles off the main road so it was quite a drive back in. MsBoyink tried some Dramamine for the first time as this area makes her car sick.  It helped her car sickness, trading it out for tiredness…   Read More >>

This past week we traded some shifts with another camp-host couple to allow them a long weekend away.  After 4 days on rather than our usual 3, we’re now on a 4-day off stretch.  The first day we just took a quiet day in the campground, taking advantage of a beautiful day and a mostly empty park.  On this day we decided to get out for a full day and…   Read More >>

RV’ers have a phrase: “hitch-itch”.  It strikes when the interest level in what’s down the road becomes higher than the interest in the spot you’re in.  You get the itch to hitch up the trailer and move on down the road.  And we have it, bad.  We’ve been in this spot since July 10th, so 6.5 weeks total.  That’s longer than we were off the road due to our truck…   Read More >>

Since it was both Sunday and we weren’t on-shift for our camp hosting gig, we were able to explore the area around us a bit more.  I had wanted to do a waterfall hat trick since there are 3 of them within an hour or so from us, but as usual the plan had to be modified mid-stream.  We got a late start after a longer church service, then had…   Read More >>

Editors Note: The photos are of a baby seal that was discovered this week on the beach at our current RV park in Port Angeles, WA.  We learned that this is a common occurrence in this area, and this is the natural order of things.  The babies come on shore to rest and will be retrieved by their mother at some point.  Sure enough, a couple days later the baby…   Read More >>