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A picture is worth a thousand words, right? In an effort to post more without boring you with thousands of words of nonsense, we are going to be creating posts with a greater picture to word ratio. What this means is that we’ll be posting more pictures and commentary describing the picture. Mike takes a…

We’re pretty sure God has a sense of humor. At least he must be having a little chuckle over our little predicament. And rightly so… We made it to the Dallas area and found a nice park to stay in called Collin Park on Lake Lavon. It’s a really beautiful spot and is situated…

As you can see, we have really gone bonkers. If you read the foreword to the last post, you’ll know that we got an Airstream. Yep, we finally said that the 5th wheel was too much. It was actually a pretty decent rig as rigs go. If we wanted to stay in a 5th…

It’s amazing at how life throws you curve balls. The text below was written over a year ago. The funny part – it’s finally actually happening, a year later, with a different RV. I’ll be doing another post on that… but thought I’d post this anyway so you can see what we went through! hah…

Wow! When we think back over the past year, it seems like an eternity since we put the house up for sale. We’ve gone through all kinds of crazy adventures learning how this process works. We thought we knew it all, but this experience has taught us a lot! But it’s finally coming to a…

The trees around the lake are pine. The shores look well established but there’s huge stump fields and lots of brushy lay-downs. The lake itself has been around since 1964 so it doesn’t have that “built in the last 30 years” look like some of the other lakes in the area. Lake Bastrop is a…