Our time here is coming to an end.....

With about 3 or 4 weeks left here in Colorado I've started looking back through photos thinking about some of the great experiences josh and I have had.

Red Rocks Ampitheatre, Independence Pass (12,095 ft) with Mom, Kim and Nick, and the flower lined roadways at the Sand Dunes National Park.
Rainbow in leadville, steps at loveland pass, ice at montezuma.


Summit County, our home for the last year.....

This morning is our first official day as Fulltimers!! I finished cleaning the apartment this morning, left my keys inside and locked the door behind me, never to return again, thank goodness! Our RV is packed with all of our belongings, which amounted to alot more than I thought, I hope that we didn't add too much weight. It's amazing what one person collects in the timespan of a year and as you start going through it all you realize how much money you've wasted on senseless junk. Who needs a stress ball in the shape of Dwight Schrute's head (all you office fans will know what i'm talking about)? Apparently I did. "It's only a dollar" is how I rationalized that purchase along with numerous others just like it over the years. I think living in such a small space will teach us how to consume less and to consume with more conscious thought. I found this great website www.tumbleweedhouses.com "the tumbleweed tiny house" company. They manufacture small houses from 70sq ft to 700sq ft for those of us who don't need much space. My favorite is the 400 sq ft z-glass house.

As the weeks go by we will try and keep up with our blog, maybe writing more topical oriented posts while we wait to start our journey. Due to the fact that we do not currently have water in our RV I may not be able to do much cooking in the Nuwave for now. If we are able to stay in this heated garage then josh may fill up the tank so i can cook and wash dishes. Keep checking in!

Short Termers!

Kelly and I are both feeling it. Our day jobs are becoming trivial and we are anxious to get back to our adventure. In time. Right now we are almost ready to move out of the apartment and in to the RV. We are so excited. All we have left is a couch bed and some pillows to get rid of and clean the place. We haven't found out about storage yet but we're pretty sure that we'll get the covered one. That means we can do some of our upgrades now. We headed over to the local green store Ecoasis in Breckenridge. The lady was so friendly and had great info on renewable, reusable, and recycled products. They also had some friendly paint. We're deciding on color...we'll let you know. That's all for now but we're so close, so stick with us!

For all you Foodies our there

My new Nuwave oven has arrived!, and it's first meal, roasted chicken.

Step.1 Clean Chicken
Step.2 Season Chicken
Step.3 Put Chicken in Nuwave
Step.4 Cook Chicken for only 75 min
Step.5 Fight over who gets to devour crunchy skin first!!!

This machine seems pretty amazing and I can't wait to try cooking bread in it next. Yes it even cooks bread! Keep tuning in for more fun food posts!!

2000 miles, 8 states, 11,158 feet...

1 power steering pump, and countless stories and friends, we're home! We headed up the steepest part of our journey last night around 7 o'clock Denver time. We climbed the 6% grades at 20 mph with semi's passing on the left. With everything running tip top, our beautiful trusty Trek pulled up in it's covered(yippie) parking space for a about a week. Kelly and I will clean er' up and start moving out of our apartment during this time. We hope to rent this space so we can do some up grades thru February. If not we will head over to a local camp site as we finish out our local jobs here in Colorado. Our little adventure has just begun and we had a small taste of the things to come. We had bumps that lead to great times and people. We'll have a ton more. For now we'll take care of business here and we'll keep posting the progress. Keep watching! You never know what we'll get into.

Disclaimer: This video has lots of foul language but is hilarious!!

I've figured out how to add video!!

YouTube

Almost home...

We slept at the flying J in Salina, KS last night and boy was it cold!!! I think it dropped below zero for sure. Luckily we have a great forced air furnace system which takes the chill out of the air and we brought plenty of warm blankets. We left Salina at about 8:30am and started heading towards Denver. It's been pretty windy so josh's been doing all the driving. We're also climbing in elevation so we've only been going 45-50mph which sucks big time. We've seen some cool things along the way like this wind farm. There must have been almost 100 turbines scattered across the landscape. I wish we had time to stop and take pictures of all the cool looking rundown farms and rolls of hay too. We are trying to make it back to Dillon by tonight and it looks like there's great weather and road conditions so hopefully it'll be smooth sailing.

The 24 hr blog is back!!

...at least for the next few days. Along our drive we had seen numerous billboards for "lovealls RV" so we decided to stop off and see if they could have someone check out our electrical problem because not having Internet while josh drives is a nightmare. (I've been fighting falling asleep for the past few hours, my head bobbing every which way.) As soon as we walked through the door we were greeted by a genuinely friendly salesman who showed to sales and service. There they were just as friendly and were able to have a technician take a look at our rig even though they were very busy. An hour and $47.00 later we are back on the road with my dash outlet restored!!! The tech said that he pulled out a gfci plug in the basement storage area and put it back in a couple of times to clear out moisture that must have gotten inside and that was the simple fix. We were so elated to have our power back, I can't wait to take pictures tonight of the bed that drops down from the ceiling for you all to see!! We were also so happy to find a place that was willing to help us in our time of need. Take that RV America!! We love LOVEALLS RV!!!

On the road again.....

We left Sikeston early this morning and are currently headed to St. Louis, MO on I-55 north. It's cold and a little rainy right now but we're just taking our time and enjoying all the interesting billboards along the way:) . Josh and I hope to stay the night somewhere in Topeka, KS if we can make it that far. It's been smooth sailing since we started driving this morning. Everything seems to be working great since we had the work done yesterday. Wish us Luck!!!

Learning to Blog

To those of you with new Google accounts, congratulations and thanks for your dedication! To Kelly and I Google is our best friend. To those of you not wanting to sign up, we have finally figured out a way around. There was a settings button that allowed us to change from Google account holders to anyone to comment. So to those people without Google accounts...Comment Away!