Dennis & Sara
Warm, dry, and almost always sunny
It's summertime in Island Park
Might I introduce you?
It is my great pleasure to (virtually) welcome you to Island Park, Idaho! I'm enjoying a beautiful sunny summer day from the second floor of the Island Park Library. Wide-open windows and two hard-working ceiling fans circulate the fresh mountain air. It's a great setting from which to give you a brief first glance . . .
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Radiator fans/Elk City
Hippie buses and bike races
We've done quite a bit of work on the van and finished one very exciting (for us) project in the camper. Today's article will take you through our radiator fan project, and tell you a little about the areas we stayed in when we did the work.
Our story begins in Oklahoma
Lake Park in Elk City was a . . .
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Hydronic heater
Installation and testing (with pictures)
Since this article is long and picture-heavy, I've published our travel update with pictures in a separate post. A link at the bottom of this post will take you to that article.
Finally!
Our 16’ Casita now has a permanent heater powered by propane and electric.
I hope I can accurately express how amazing it . . .
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We made it!
Rock Springs WY to Montpelier ID
We are in Idaho. IDAHO! The state where Dennis has spent the last two summers, the place he's been telling me about since we first started talking. All our travel plans were made with this state in mind. It's very exciting to have crossed the state lines! We have a very few (double digits!!!!) more miles to go . . .
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Texas Edition
Part I
700 miles (almost)
...and we're still in Texas
If we'd come straight west when we crossed from Louisiana, we'd only have 70-odd miles to go before we'd reached the far border (at the state's widest point). Understatement alert: Texas is a big state. It's my first time to be in it beyond flying in . . .
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Expanding walls
Living big in a tiny home
First, some business:
Thanks to a new feature from our blog host, there's a link to our photo gallery at the top of our home page. The pictures in this article are included, plus extras. I'll be uploading more photos periodically and adding more galleries. As always, you can click on any picture in an . . .
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Firewood!
The heat source that warms us twice
So you want to build a fire...
Ahhh, firewood!
I suppose it would be possible to live as we do and never build a campfire - but, my, what a travesty! Forsaking something so basic and essential to humanity’s existence? Nope, not okay in our book. So, we have fires.
To have campfires, we must have firewood. Here . . .