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We have officially moved to the desert! Our one-month stay in the city was helpful, but we are SO thankful to be out! We have parked on some State Trust Land in Peoria, Arizona and plan to be here until we head west for Skooliepalooza. It’s awesome! We have finally been able to see the starsContinue reading “We’ve moved…! 12/31/21”

Things have been going really well… there’s lots of great things to update on! After the fiasco with the Jeep (see here and here) it finally arrived! We are so excited!! We had paid a percentage of the total cost up front with our debit card, but the remainder had to be paid with aContinue reading “Glad tidings… 12/23/21”

Burrr!! It’s been chilly here the past week or so! We’ve had some chilly nights that got us down into the upper 30s. I know, I know, I shouldn’t complain because our highs have been in the 60s consistently, but that’s still pretty cold! We’ve been collecting some sort of desert wood (we think it’sContinue reading “Solar Upgrade!! 12/19/21”

Jeff is now doing some welding for an artist making a table, repairing a trailer, fabricating a box or whatever else metal-related needing to be done as well as working with Hot Air Expeditions as a member of the Hot Air Balloon Chase Team. We have been very busy recently as Jeff has started workingContinue reading “Life is happening 12/13/21”

We’ve been in our spot for almost a week now and are starting to get some semblance of a routine figured out! Jeff has been welding for an artist here in Phoenix and has to be there by 9 am. It takes about 30 minutes to get there with morning traffic in the bus andContinue reading “Getting into a routine 12/6/21”

There’s so much to update on! First and foremost is that we have water and we took our first showers in the bus!!! After Jeff finished up the last of the piping over the weekend we had just about run out of water, so we didn’t try it out until we got water today. IContinue reading “Creating a “home” space 12/2/21″

We have been really busy, though there’s not much that seems accomplished! It’s been somewhat discouraging as we have been doing a lot of work but don’t have much to show for it. We spent the weekend nights at a Walmart and the weekend days between the laundromat and Home Depot. We’ve had a fewContinue reading “Finding space 11/29/21”

We’ve been in Arizona the past few days, but today was the first warm and beautiful day! We are in the outskirts of Phoenix, and it feels almost like a beach town… palm trees, sand, and all!! Yesterday we navigated 30some miles out of the desert on barely paved roads and entered a small town.Continue reading “Arizona at last… 11/27/21”

…. but we aren’t there anymore!!! 😉 We plowed through the last stretch of Texas like our lives depended on it! We wanted so badly to be in a different state tonight so we basically ran out of Texas! But not before we piered across the boarder and waved to the Monarch butterflies we releasedContinue reading “Texas is huuuuuge….. 11/24/21”