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On The Road Again, Dallas and Beaumont

Posted on February 19, 2017

So, we are finally on the road again and it feels great. We needed some time in Oklahoma to get our affairs in order and to spend much wanted time with friends and family. However, we were certainly ready to get back out on this new adventure of ours. Sunset at home on the road We started off our journey with a quick jaunt down to Dallas for a business meeting with a client. [Read More]

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On Being Stationary

Posted on January 12, 2017

After the somewhat frantic out and back travel we did for the first three months in the Airstream, we were ready for a break. While we were enjoying the sights, having to head out to a location for only a week or two before heading back to Oklahoma was getting a little tiring. Since we had the holidays coming up plus the kids’ birthdays, we decided to stop traveling for the year in the middle of October. [Read More]

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Travel Catchup Post

Posted on January 1, 2017

Falling behind is always my terror in blogging. I’ll get busy, things come up and the next thing I know you I’m a couple of months behind on posts. I then feel overwhelmed with the amount of writing I have to do to get caught up mixed with guilt of not doing what I need to do. Then I just give up … Well, I don’t want to give up so soon, so in this case I’m going to have to make a compromise to keep this thing going. [Read More]

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Long Silence, Lots Happening

Posted on August 8, 2016

Proving that blogging is the first thing to suffer as soon as stuff gets interesting, we’ve been horribly quiet over here lately. It’s been a whirlwind of activity as we’ve purchased our trailer, set it up and hit the road for our first work trip. After much going back and forth, we decided we wanted the Airstream Flying Cloud 27FB. It’s a nice compromise between the compact length of the 25FB and it’s slightly awkward sleeping accommodations and the spacious 30 foot which would severely limit some of the places we would like to go. [Read More]

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Week 3: A Return to Normalcy?

Posted on April 18, 2016

So, my three weeks off is coming to an end. It’s been an amazing whirlwind of activity that has moved us closer to our dream of the open road than the last few months combined. This week was a slow return towards normalcy. I personally spent most of the week doing client work, cleaning email and getting business work taken care of after the craziness of the last two weeks. Kind of nice to write some code again. [Read More]

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Week Two Construction and Downsizing Update

Posted on April 11, 2016

I think there is an inverse correlation between the frequency of blogging and how busy someone is. The silence here should be indicative how exactly how insane the last week was for the both of us. However, as far as making progress on our dreams, this was the best week yet. We started off at a fairly calm pace. Mark and I did a large quantity of tree pruning, replaced one wall of paneling on the old detached garage and finished getting the porch squared up and ready to go. [Read More]

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Week One Construction Update

Posted on April 4, 2016

It’s been amazing to see what can get done in a week if you can get the time to focus on it. I started this week with a laundry list of home and garden tasks, some of which I had been ignoring for years. I end this week with some major projects done and progress on many others. The major task of this week was my front porch which has been long needing to be re-decked. [Read More]

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It Starts with a First Step

Posted on March 29, 2016

It’s been a frustrating few weeks for me on the home liquidation front. Partially, I felt stuck in a rut of analysis paralysis; constantly planning and no action. However, mostly it just not finding time to get anything done. Between my day job, my side work on Fore & Aft Design and just the stuff that we have to do to keep our lives afloat, there just wasn’t enough hours in the day. [Read More]

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A New Dream

Posted on February 28, 2016

For me, it started with a dream of boats and wide open spaces. While growing up in Oklahoma City can’t be described as exactly living in a concrete jungle, it also wasn’t the exactly the great wide open either. I then spent several years in Chicago, which really was the concrete jungle before returning once again to Oklahoma. And yet, my favorite memories are of traveling through wide open vistas, whether family camping trips through Big Bend, TX, backpacking in New Mexico or any number of bicycle trips. [Read More]

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