I forgot to also mention “Brainless”, but we’ll get to that. It wouldn’t be a trip for my family if everything didn’t go wrong. So we normally celebrate Thanksgiving with Adam’s family. That has its own issues since I love them but it also makes me think a great deal of Adam (obviously). Well this […]
When there is a devastating storm that destroys homes and cities, they do not rebuild the next day. This is the epiphany I had this week. After a storm, you have to wait. You have to wait for the dust to settle and the waters to recede. After that, you have to wait for the […]
Final wrap up of our trip if you are interested. Please come visit and stay in ourRV shaped guest room. We’d love to have you (well I would). Thanks for the support during our trip and have a great Christmas. Merry Christmas from the Joneses
So the last six months have been a lot of stretching, that I was not really ready for. I’ve read, that the first year after loss is a year of survival and the year after that is in many ways harder because it’s a year of starting over. Facing your life without your loved one, […]
So, I’m home now…. People keep asking me how it feels to be back. It’s funny because I feel weird writing this after not writing so long, I’ve been home for weeks now. Well, three weeks actually, but it feels like three months. The trip…I think it might have been a dream. I know it […]
Yes, we made it home and yes, we barely made it. At least the RV barely made it. We’ll get to that. So one year ago (this week) we left on our first major adventure. This week we are done with major adventures and need to start the next adventure here. So the last week […]
So when we arrived in Branson I was excited. It is such a family friendly town and I got a second wind at touring around. We also needed to hunker down for the perfect storm ahead: two birthdays and Easter. When we arrived in town on Good Friday, I scouted out the nearest (only) passion […]
I’m a bit rejuvenated after visiting with friends (and talking non-stop). I’ve been tired and unsure of myself. Are things better than when we left? I think so. We left Virginia with a perfectly working (maybe?) RV. We drove to Pigeon Forge, TN. I actually didn’t know this was a popular place. We have exhausted […]
I don’t quite know why I should be learning lessons on rest, pacing myself, and my lower threshold for activity when I have to come back to Denver, reinsert myself into the workforce and become a single mother. Yikes. We left our RV at the mechanics to check it out (he never did find anything […]
Can you imagine that I have some MORE incredible cousins taking care of us? I’m so comfortable that I’m finally in a hurry to make it home. Being in the comfort of a home, spread out, with WiFi… it’s been nice. So we made it to Virginia. We visited Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. It’s […]
Have I mentioned there are up days, down days, and everything in between days? First, if you are worried about the transmission, it’s not fixed but I found someone in Virginia to fix it next week – I hope. The rest of New York was good once I was parked and not moving. You could […]
So we left Orlando and I’ll just briefly say something is wrong with our transmission and leave it at that. I needed to get to my cousins for Presidents’ Day weekend and we were meeting up about an hour south of Manhattan at her brother’s house. I had to drive over 1000 miles in 6 […]
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to hear that as we got closer and closer to Orlando, my RV started shaking a lot, and I think it was crying, too. Maybe that was me, but I really felt like Irv said “I just don’t think I can go on” and I realized something was really wrong…. […]
So when we arrived in New Orleans the tire was blown out. To be honest, I’m not positive how long I’d been driving on just 5 tires, but that can’t be good! We spent a couple days in New Orleans and by the third day we were going to visit the nearest National Park (swamp). […]
I’ve had better days. Some, only a week ago. If I’m truly to use this blog as a journal I should probably write in it more often. Only because things change so radically from day to day. Today isn’t good because I had to be a mother. You know when you do your job and […]
I was always an adventurous person, but I also always had anchors holding me in place. I allowed the anchors because I got to choose: the anchor or the adventure. I always chose the anchor. I didn’t know how I wouldn’t blow away when Adam died. He was my anchor. I didn’t know what could ever […]
Have a merry Christmas. Thanks for all the love and support getting us ready, helping along the way and for those of us who spent time with us on the road. If you don’t subscribe to this blog-you may want to if you want more details on the trip. Thanks and Merry Christmas!
My kids were super excited to come to our home, but I kept telling them it wasn’t the Home we’d left. I’d seen at least glimpses of what the renters had done. I didn’t know the extent of the damage but at least I had an idea. It took me a full twelve hours to […]
I’m not going to tell you about coming home (on this post) but will tell you about our Christmas week in New Mexico and trying to get home which was difficult because of another breakdown. Remember when our radiator exploded on our way home from Kansas? Almost the exact same thing happened… but we’ll get […]
Another (very long) random post about Church.. So, we’ve only missed Church twice on this trip. At first I thought I was showing the kids the world and they should be exposed to different ways Christians worship…. that didn’t last long. Not that they weren’t willing, but soon into the trip I needed a home […]