You know what I’ve always found to be the best predictor of our readiness to return to our “normal” life back in Mexico? The number of photos we take. When the daily photo count drops precipitously it is time to get back on the road. Nothing against Portland, and certainly … Read More
Cousins
We could spend weeks in Seattle and not have enough time to see all our friends. Cruisers and Overlanders alike seem to congregate up here. We did get to spend a few hours with our friends from Drive Nacho. Shacked up, pregnant, but still scheming towards their next adventure. Love … Read More
Seattle Tourists
I’ve said it a million times, but it’s true, that when you live this wandering lifestyle the world gets smaller. Case in point, the other day we got to meet up with our friends from Mali Mish who we last saw in Santa Barbara about a year ago. We also … Read More
Pumpkin Patch
The kids made blueberry muffins with Ali in the morning. The dog got up on the counter when we all left the room and ate the muffins. I shot the dog. We know Halloween is like four weeks away, but that can’t stop us from hitting up the pumpkin patch. Last … Read More
Around Portland
The other day Lowe asked Ouest if she wanted to play photo booth. I’d never heard of this before, but within seconds he was dressing her up in boas and taking her picture. They played this for days, giggling the whole time. The pictures below are theirs, obviously. We’ve been … Read More
Adopted
I was born to a sixteen-year-old girl—she’d turn seventeen in the hospital two days after giving birth. She was smart, pretty, from a decent family that loved their kids, and completely unprepared to be a teen mother. She’d known from the start that she couldn’t keep me. She had managed … Read More
The Portland Routine
Our Portland routine rarely changes very much. We hang out around the house a lot, playing with new toys and digging out old ones. We visit the park across the street daily. We spend time cleaning whatever old vehicle we have around at the time. We hit the ice rink on … Read More
Portland—End of the Road
Two-thousand four-hundred and seventy-five miles down the road from St. Paul, Minnesota, is a little place called Portland, Oregon. When we woke up in Pendleton today everyone was ready to get there and see Grammy. We bombed through the Columbia Gorge to get there. The road trip was excellent. Our … Read More
Lowe’s Lens
The road trip through Lowe’s eyes. Lowe took 450 pictures on the trip. What I realized when going through them was: One, he is shutter happy. Two, he spent a lot of time looking at the back of my head. Three, that three feet off the ground makes for a … Read More
Ouest’s Lens
The road trip through Ouest’s eyes. I think Ouest did a good job of showing what it’s like to view the world from the backseat. It’s a far different perspective than we adults get looking through the giant lens of a windshield. I did notice in Ouest’s pictures that there … Read More
Pendleton
We stopped off at a small state park, and a number of small towns on our way to Pendleton. Nothing exciting. No great sites. Just a little driving broken up with playgrounds and walks in the park. Pendleton in the evening.
Ontario… Oregon
We’re getting on near the two week mark and the pace has certainly begun to pick up. Two weeks is enough time in hotel rooms. We’re ready to get to Grammy’s and eat some home cooking again. At least Ali and I are. The kids haven’t said a word. They … Read More