Active Mode RV Life

06/27/2026

Buckhorn Lake RV Resort is where it’s at. An evening stroll when it’s 80-degrees and breezy is Heaven.

05/05/2026

New Mexico’s beautiful Bottomless Lakes State Park. The landscape is dotted with sinkholes. Staying at Lea Lakes Campground, within the state park, is so peaceful.

04/28/2026

We changed out the L-shaped sofa that came standard in our Brinkley G3950 with a Lovesac Sactional. A few people asked about how we handle travel days. In this video, I’ll show you how to take apart a Lovesac Sactional for travel by removing cushions, detaching brackets, and disassembling the AnyTable we added to the setup. I demonstrate how the pieces connect using brackets and shoes with legs that fit into holes, and I share my packing strategy for storing monitors and computers inside the sectional's deep compartments while keeping everything protected and organized for transport.

Not sure this is great for people who move every few days, but it’s working perfect for us. We tend to stay at least a week in each place and this disassembly just takes me a few minutes.

04/23/2026

A beautiful way to start our journey! Did an easy little hike to Faux Falls just outside of Moab this morning.

02/15/2026

The dogs are getting confused by the rapidly emptying house. Little do they know, they are about to go on the adventure of their lifetimes!

02/12/2026

We were supposed to leave late last year, but I had an emergency back surgery (which I’m now pretty well fully recovered from), so the timeline changed.

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Now the next chapter begins and I’m not sure I’m ready.

Mike and I fantasized for years about the moment we would become empty-nesters. RV’ing around the country or getting a little sailboat and goofing around the Caribbean, golfing, building a little home in New Meadows, ID and another tiny home in Hunt, TX so we can both have time “at home” with our families of origin while still working part-time. Not an extravagant life, but something we planned well for. I mean, this is what we worked for, right? RIGHT??!!

But no one tells you that once you reach that stage, a whole new bag of life opens up that needs you.

Yeah, our youngest kids have kind of left the nest… but maybe they still need us and we shouldn’t leave. Greyson and Noah still kind of live here. They are in that place where we still financially support them in many ways, but they are also kind of paying their own way. And since Noah works in Boise at the airport, he’s mostly at his dad’s except to come home on his days off and drop a big mess bomb! And Greyson is only home maybe one or two nights a week… sometimes. He’s been working a lot in Meridian and living with his aunt.

And honestly when they are home, they don’t like us very much because we are pressing them on packing up their rooms and taking the next steps in their lives. Neither are being abandoned. They both have plans, places, support in place. But they are pretty freaking mad we are leaving. 😂

Darian and Amanda are fine. They dont need us. But… ***The hardest part? That grandbaby of ours makes me want to buy a little house in Boise and open a new daycare with one little client. I know people live far away from their grandchildren all the time, but it makes me sad.***

I’m not really sure I’m ready to leave. But the date’s been set for April 15. 😭

10/03/2025

Keeping things active. My husband loves to paramotor. He’s been through two training courses, but still has a lot to learn. But he’s having a great time doing it. He had to take a break after breaking both ankles in a moto accident, but he’s almost fully healed and getting back to his high-adrenaline pursuits!

09/24/2025

Curious what a Brinkley G3950 looks like from the inside? Come take a tour of ours!

Join me for a full inside tour of our Brinkley G3950. We’ll be hitting the road soon for full-time life on the road and we hope you’ll join us! ...