A Family & Travel Blog
This past weekend (Friday thru Tuesday) took us to our annual “Meet in the Middle”- Watkins Glen, on Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region. During 1984 Chris traveled with “Up With People” a group of young people who did…
Work-Camping Update #6 – Travel to New Job Please take a minute to post a comment to either this update or one of the photo captions! On Monday, October 21 we left our beautiful site in Fisher, MN and began…
Work-Camping Update #5 – Final for this job. We love reading your comments!!! If you read the whole post and the picture captions, please leave a quick comment!! Since our last update, the reason we came to NW Minnesota has…
“Well, Congratulations! You’ve just completed your first harvest from beginning to end!” This was said to Ken by one of the farm managers (T- I’m not sure what to call your position!). Ken was able to be a part of…
It’s been a week since our last update. So, what have we been up to??? Well it has been an incredible time here in Fisher, Minnesota. We have been very busy helping (as best as we can) with preparing for…
It’s been a whirlwind of a few days! We thought we’d give you all an update. We were off from our work-camping job this past weekend, so on Saturday, we drove to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake…
We arrived at our first work-camping gig last Friday, August 30. This is a recap of our first week. We are working as truck drivers and farm hands for a farmer in Fisher, Minnesota. We are beyond excited about this…
We are still enroute to Fisher, MN for the workcamping job. We arrived in West Bend, Iowa on Monday. Our purpose for coming here is to visit the Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption. The story of how the…
Apparently, the old adage that troubles come in threes is accurate… Today we got our THIRD FLAT!!!! Thankfully, the TireMinder TPMS did its job and alerted us to the rapid loss of pressure. Captain Chris was able to navigate to…
People always have lots of questions about living on the road full-time. We enjoy answering them. One question that comes up a lot is, “Can you vote and do you even bother?” Yes and Yes! Too many people have died…
The flowers at all of the places (NYC, London, Ireland) we recently visited were just amazing. The baskets and boxes in England and Ireland…wow!!! I have to believe because the temps are a bit milder and the daylight a bit…
County Donegal, Ireland – August 15-18, 2024 In 1970, at the age of three, Ken made his first trip from Chicago back “home” to Donegal. We say “home” because for his parents, Patrick and Eileen, County Donegal in Ireland was…
