10T-iversary

Married on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial during Cherry Blossom season, how do we commemorate a ten year anniversary? In a tent, of course! During a superbloom, while the border is in the news and Coachella is on stage. When Joshua Tree and Death Valley have tolerable temps, the Integratron has a last minute…

It takes a long time to get out of Florida; especially as you get older. Most AARP members never do get out. Our escape attempt began at 7 am in a packed-to-the-bedrails F250 and ended 700 miles later in Hammond, Louisiana. All set to car camp out of the truck, we instead found ourselves at…

West Texas can kick your butt. Last year Big Bend National Park turned up the heat on our visit and the temperatures hit triple digit highs. Same month a year later and the Permian Basin is still in the grip of winter. Cold winds whip through Van Horn, a crossroads of west Texas. Another interstate…

Tucson arrived 8 hours later like an old friend. We knew this town. Tucson is the legit west … cacti and desert. Passing up the known for the new, we ignored the security of Davis Monthan Air Force Base and worked our way west out of town to an obscure county park in the foothills…

In case you’re worried about us, don’t be! We’re pushing comfort boundaries for sure but all is good and safe. There are plenty of hotels and private campgrounds to fall back on if it gets really tough. Until then we will chase the experience. We watched Nomadland on Netflix, but what does it feel like?…

Sheri was craving a Diet Coke and Eric wanted a beer so we drove 5 miles to the Lukeville Gasmart, also known as Gringo Pass. While cars lined up to enter Mexico, we got $15 of $4.39 gas, beverages other than water to drink and a good look at one of our “big beautiful” Southern…

It’s been 10 years since we exchanged I Do’s on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial during DC’s Cherry Blossom Festival before hundreds of global onlookers who were actually just tourists at the Memorial that day but none the less cheered when we were pronounced. The epic event included writing a marriage manifesto, signing a…

Our newest lesson learned … You can prepare for the worst, or you can repair at your worst. That gem of wisdom comes about when you decide that the tent does not need the six extra tie-downs you packed because it looks like the wind is calming down at bed time. Perhaps the wind was…

Let’s just go. That’s what we finally said to each other after months of back and forth on whether or not Sheri would get to see carpets of wildflowers if we took a 7,000 mile road trip. If the bloom was a bust, we may as well make an event out of it and call…

Sheri’s wish list for 10T-iversary weekend: Coachella, Wind Farm, Palm Springs MCM motel, and The Integratron. Eric’s wish list: To make it happen. Sheri didn’t actually want to attend Coachella, she just wanted to see the place where the cheapest ticket is $600 for a 3 day general admission and $450+ to car camp and…

North of Palm Springs in the Morongo Valley, Rose has opened her 5 acre hipcamp one mile down a country dirt road for hip travelers who are looking for a place to boondock and find inner peace for the night. The Desert Rose Collective, however, is so much more. It is a full amenity camping…

The terrain of Southern Utah is surely from another planet. I-70 follows an old Mormon trail through land 300 million years in the making. It wasn’t our first time circling the Utah Big 5 so we put some serious miles behind us at a high rate of speed. We had a weekend rendezvous with our…

Our dash across 1-70 was a Rocky Mountain High buzzkill. Colorado is massively populated. The ski towns are packed with condominium complexes and the parks are overrun with people from the Denver metro center. J.D.’s 1970s version is now a nostalgic sing-a-long. After three wicked cold nights in Aurora, we looked for any destination that…

Roadtrip thrifting is way more exciting than hometown thrifting. The only thing better than finding fast wifi in a small town library, is finding the local small town thriftshop. Sheri is always scanning on the slow down drive through for treasure huts. Eric agrees to stop most of the time and sometimes hits the brakes…

According to the The Knot, a website dedicated to all things wedding, the traditional gift for 10 years of marriage is made from tin or aluminum. Pliable yet strong, these materials represent the flexibility that comes with a long-lasting relationship. We suggest they add 30 days of nomadic tent camping to the approved gift list…