Boyinks4Adventure

We’ve been in our new camp-hosting spot at Usery Mountain Regional Park outside of Mesa, Arizona a week and as MsBoyink just said “A lot has gone on in a week. And yet, nothing.” I have ‘round two’ in the title of this post - if you are somewhat newer to following our ongoing family travel saga you have probably intuited by now that there was a Round One. Such…   Read More >>

One week ago today, we accepted a camp-hosting position at Usery Mountain Regional Park in Mesa Arizona. Monday, our final day in San Antonio (this time around) was filled with grocery shopping, laundry, business meetings, schoolwork, swimming, and an evening out listening to the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Tuesday morning we hitched up the house and began our ~1,000 mile trek. Tuesday, after driving about 315 miles, we overnighted in…   Read More >>

Nearly 2 years ago, we stayed in Las Cruces, NM for two nights. Mike was interested in visiting White Sands National Monument, but I talked him out of it. (Yes, I know that was not a nice wifey thing to do.) When we knew we’d be heading through Las Cruces again, we planned to make time for a visit to the National Monument. Our schedule worked such that our visit…   Read More >>

San Antonio is always a favorite for us. We’ve had a couple of classes here and always enjoy the food, music, and ambiance of the Riverwalk.  Our visit here was brief - for reasons I’ll explain in a moment - so I don’t have much for pictures.  Still, we had a good time: Dinner at Rosarios with Friends I won’t link you to the restaurants website because it’s a cliche…   Read More >>

So, I have to say it. Austin, please don’t be offended. You are just not that weird. OK, yes, you have a few oddball things going on here and there. You have the bats and the Cathedral of Junk but once those have been visited….the weirdness sort of peters out.  Any city your size would naturally have a few oddballs. Even our smaller hometown of conservative Holland, Michigan had orange…   Read More >>

We’ve been in the Austin, TX area for just shy of a week and we’re really full of it. Well, OK…really that’s the current status of our holding tanks because all this time we’ve been at a state park without a sewer hookup.  That’s pretty good considering there’s four of us here and this trailer of ours isn’t equipped with huge holding capacities in an effort to be “half-ton towable”. …   Read More >>

Our scheduled obligations have come to an end. We are trying to decide where to go and what to do with this mobile lifestyle. Storybird has shared her opinion. My Plea for AZ The Quinns want us to come Allison begs me every day Harrison and I both agree Can we go, if we may? This is my plea for AZ Oh, I such yearn for warm weather Cactus, snakes,…   Read More >>

Forgive me. We’re in Texas. I’ve been around men in hats and trucks adorned with brush-guards and headache racks all week.  If’n I had some boots I’d stand up, drag a booted toe across the gravel in front of me, push back the hat on my head, look you in the eye and say “All those schedules? Places to be? Times to keep? Stress of being on time? Yea, that…   Read More >>

Kansas City to Sanger Texas. A long drive. Pulled in after dark Reservations at Wagon Master RV Park. Parked here for a week. Full-hook ups, wi-fi, laundry room, dog, alpacas. What else could we need? Alpaca cria, Rusty Spur, born Friday morn’. Six alpacas now. Plus a dog and cat. We help feed, pet, hold, and herd our animal friends. We accomplished much working, learning, and playing. It was a…   Read More >>

We started out a new month—October—with a new state—Kansas (and we added Missouri to our list while here). We’ve spent the week outside of Kansas City. We are primarily here for business—Mike was asked to spend a couple of days with long term client, Garmin. In addition to the consulting work, we had experiences that made each day of October an Amazing Day (following the Jeske’s 31 Amazing Days Challenge,…   Read More >>