We set out in Zeppelin, our Sprinter van, on the last day of August 2023 and had an extraordinary trip of a lifetime…

What did we do with all that time on the road? So very much, but the things we spent the most time on…

The state we spent the most time in was California. Partly because our daughter goes to school there, partly because we spent Thanksgiving with family there, but mostly…

Utah is one of the most visually stunning places I have ever been. As Andy likes to say, “they’ve got a great piece of real estate!”…

The third leg of our trip started with nearly 7 weeks of skiing. We skied in 7 different states…

Charming small towns with epically beautiful scenery are worth the inevitable dings in the windshield…

We spent the first leg of the trip in OR to get our feet wet close enough to home to be able to get back quickly if the wheels started to fall off, literally or figuratively…

Easy on the eyes and good for the soul, the Southwest has beautiful scenery and people we love to visit…

Gorgeous state parks and exotic wildlife made van life in Florida super fun…

Great food, great music, great friends, Texas and New Orleans were a lot of fun…

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee made up our southern states, and Arkansas and Missouri are the plus…