A Family & Travel Blog
This is our site at the Silver Wind RV Park in Silverton, TX. Do you notice anything missing??? What’s missing from that picture of our campsite at the SilverWind RV Park… is our HOME!!! Ken called the Blue Compass dealership…
How We Saved $238.00 per Month! When we moved from a 1500 sq ft “sticks and bricks” home into a 340 sq ft box on wheels, a number of things change. There are many, many bills that we no longer…
How Do We Stay Warm and Prevent Frozen Pipes? A few years ago, when we both attended the National RV Training Academy in Athens, Texas, one of the students asked a question about “winterizing” an RV. The instructor, a native…
Grand Design has APPROVED the full repair of our water-damaged roof!! This entails completely removing the entire roofing material, replacing two OSB boards (and potentially a roof truss), installing new TPO roofing material, and resealing all edges and intrusion points!…
ROAD TRIP !!! Yesterday, after work, we got the fifth-wheel ready for a quick road trip. It’s not the type of road trip that anyone wants to make, but it was necessary. Let’s go back to about the middle of…
So…After leaving our last work-camping gig, where did we land? Silver Wind RV Park & Cabins in Silverton, Texas. We are located in the panhandle of the state. While working here doesn’t pay any bills, in fact, it doesn’t pay…
Before we move on to the following article, this warrants being said again; We have this website to share our journey and the blessings bestowed on us. We do so at the risk of coming across as braggards. That IS…
We hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving!! We tried posting on our typical Facebook page yesterday regarding “Small Business Saturday,” but the FB algorithm buried the post so no one would see it. So we are trying to outsmart…
We QUIT!! When we ended our last update, we challenged you to take a guess at what our big announcement would be. Well, the announcement is that we quit our work-camping job!! We worked at the Bowlin’s “Flying C Ranch”…
Read to the end!!! We have a change of plans! Seeing as we currently live LITERALLY in the middle of nowhere, 45 miles either east or west on Interstate 40 to the nearest town, we took advantage of our day…
After our whirlwind “Meet in the Middle gathering in Watkins Glen, NY we started our new work camping job at Bowlin’s “Flying C Ranch” on Thursday, November 7th. So far we have worked three full shifts and have been busy…
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…
