24 months on the road

and counting…

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We share this video and photo every year on this day. This was our very first day on the road in October 2017. We backed out of the driveway we’d spent months in, and headed straight for Asheville, NC hoping to find a beautiful place to camp. But to our dismay, we sat in loads of traffic from all the leaf peepers trying to get a glimpse of the fall colors before they quickly faded. We stopped here, at a pull-off on the blue ridge parkway for dinner, and backed into our temporary parking spot where we enjoyed our very first view from this window. To this day, this is still one of our favorite views. It was an overwhelming moment of relief, we had imagined this moment for months. The sunset came and went, and that feeling passed as we started to realize we had absolutely no clue where we were going to camp for the night. So, after we soaked in the last few minutes of daylight, we did a quick search and stayed at our very first Walmart. Since then, we’ve been in a limbo of beautiful views and mediocre views all over North America 😂 moral of the story is: ya gotta take the good [views] with the bad [views], right?? _ #slowcarfasthome👇
We’ve all heard that quote “living in a van down by the river”, but it seems like over the last 2 years we’ve preferred lakes over rivers 😉 _ View 1: A pull off at Bow Lake on the way to Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada View 2: Pit stop for a quick swim in Flathead lake on the way to Glacier National Park in Montana View 3: Our campsite for a week at Lake Powell View 4: A lake somewhere in Idaho we didn’t catch the name of, but it was a hot day driving so we stopped for a swim #slowcarfasthome
Still celebrating our 2 year mark of traveling in the RV! So here’s some of the more diverse views we’ve seen from our big screen tv 😉 We’ve asked you all this question more than once because we can never really settle on an answer of our own... _ Which are you drawn to the most — the beach, mountains, desert, or cities?? _ View 1: A day playing in the sun in the Bahía de Concepcion in Baja Sur, Mexico View 2: We pulled off for a quick breakfast in Grand Teton National Park View 3: Driving through some of the dirt roads through Joshua Tree National Park (the best part of the park in our opinion 😜) View 4: Urban camping outside of San Francisco because we were too scared to drive the RV into the city 😂 #slowcarfasthome
We’re breaking up our favorite back window views into groups over this week while we celebrate our 2 year vaniversary! These are some of the most dramatic backwindow views we’ve had the pleasure of viewing from our comfy little living room! _ View 1: A rainy afternoon in Castle Valley, Utah View 2: A pull off on Hwy 1 in Brookings, Oregon View 3: Highway view near two Medicine Lake, Montana outside of Glacier National Park View 4: A pull off on Icefields Parkway, Alberta Canada on the way to Jasper National Park _ Which is your favorite? #slowcarfasthome
This is a BIG week for us...this week marks exactly 2 years of living and traveling in the old, little Toyota that became our dream home! It still feels wild to us that this has been our actual life for 2 full years. There was a brief moment early on when we didn’t think we would be able to travel this way for long. It’s not always easy, and it’s definitely not always beautiful, but we always tried to look at the big picture of what an amazing adventure we’ve been on. Through the good and the bad, choosing to do this so early in our lives has changed our lives forever 💚 _ We’ll be sharing some of our favorite back window views this week to celebrate 730 days on the road!✨ #slowcarfasthome
We started this Instagram a little over 3 years ago, and it was solely for us. Tommy actually thought it was weird when I told him I created an Instagram "for the RV" 😂 We never anticipated people caring about all of this, our dogs, or us. It all started with us wanting to document the process of flipping this old RV. It was a fun way to log each days progress (or the occasional bad day where we would make mistakes and have to backtrack) and to keep us accountable during the renovation process because it was 100% not easy for us, and we wanted to throw in the towel more than a few times. _ We're pretty astounded by how much this community has grown. But the secret is, as much as we love sharing on this platform, it's not who we are or how we define ourselves or our travels. We would still have traveled these last two years without this Instagram and we do not plan on doing this forever. We are always changing as people, and we can't stay the same or be the same forever for the sake of an Instagram page. As we grow and explore new seasons of our life we hope people will grow with us! We find this app to be an amazing way to share our lives and make connections with other like-minded people. We are extremely grateful for all of you that interact with us and follow along our weird little life! _ Hope you're all having an amazing Monday! 💚✨ #slowcarfasthome
We've been a little quiet over here again, but all for exciting reasons! We spent the last few days cruising through some of our favorite little mountain towns looking for our perfect little slice of land to call our own. We didn't realize exactly how much we had been missing the mountains until we were back to being surrounded by them! _ We're really looking forward to some of the new challenges and goals we've set for ourselves. Our long term goal behind our newest plan, is to create more passive income so we can eventually travel allllll the way south to Argentina in the future. Step by step we'll get there. Once again we have no idea what we are doing, but that's what makes it an adventure! _ We'll keep you all updated once we have more news! Cross your fingers for us 🤞🤞 #slowcarfasthome

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