One Guy's Truth
Have you ever visited a place so wonderful that an urge came over you to just stay? Not, just stay for another day or two, but to stay forever? I have this feeling during most fantastic vacations. The first time I remember this occurring was when I was 10 years old, while on vacation with […]
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After attending my Dad’s retirement party in Washington DC, we returned to Tin E in Oklahoma City. It was anticlimactic to be back in the trailer. Trips to National Parks, the Pacific Northwest, Wyoming, Montana, Canada, California, Arizona and New Mexico were all in the rear view mirror. While there are great spots back East, […]
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DGATWFWA or “Driving Gringo and Tin E While Female While Asian.” Stereotypically, this would give others on the road some concern. In our case, this was Jenny throughout the majority of our drive through the Southwest. Lots of people have asked, “is driving our big rig hard?” It took some getting used to, but it’s […]
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It’s hard to talk about San Diego without talking about the weather – it’s perfect. We initially thought to spend 2-3 days here, but decided on 7. Taking it easy, we continued to knock off the travel fatigue by way of pool time, Mexican food consumption, and workouts on the beach. Switching it up a […]
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Are we legal residents of California now? Before hitting California, the most time we would spend in any one state was about a week or two, max. From August 7th until September 17th, we’ve been enjoying all that California has to offer – and it has a ton to offer! Our trip through the state […]
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Is there such a thing as National Park overload? If so, we might be hitting it. I’m typing this post from King’s Canyon National Park, an absolutely stunning park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. This evening we took a hike through a Sequoia tree grove where literally people from all over the […]
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Everyone like pop music for a reason – it’s awesome. Remember the first time you logged onto Facebook and your friend is raving about the new Despacito song? If you’re anything like me, you REALLY didn’t want to like it. You wanted your tastes to be refined and “different” from the masses. But then, you […]
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Supposedly, tons of Californians move to Oregon each year to escape the high cost of living. I know of a couple Marylanders who would love to move to Oregon…for the summer. Driving from Portland to Bend, the landscape goes from the forested hills of the Mt. Hood range to something straight outta the moon and […]
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If you have read the “about” section of this blog, you’ll see that I joke about getting eaten by a grizzly. Not having many big bears back home, we knew it was a possibility we could run into such a creature on this trip. After seeing a small grizzly in the Grand Tetons (from the […]
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What’s better than having 4 people live in a small trailer? How about 5 people living in a trailer! For our trip to the Portland, Oregon area, my mom courageously flew out to travel with us for a week. Frankly, I’m still surprised she came because she certainly had enough information from this blog to […]
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Think back to a time when you ate something that was “world famous”. Something like Geno’s cheesesteaks, Hofbrauhaus beer, or Gatlin’s BBQ in Houston. The tagline for these foods is usually something along the lines of, “the best ice cream in the world” or “the greatest cheeseburger this side of the Mississippi.” Now ask yourself, […]
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Olympic National Park really surprised us. Being East Coasters and with the park way out on the Olympic Peninsula (the farthest possible point west in the continental US), this amazing place doesn’t get the publicity that it deserves compared to some of the other big boys like Yellowstone and Yosemite. The park has it all […]
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When J and I were dating for about 3 months, we would talk about how it would be fun to live in a place like Seattle or a foreign country one day (the farther away the more exotic). Looking back on those conversations, I can’t really remember why we wanted to live elsewhere – we […]
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Driving our truck, “Gringo”, today to get an oil change, it dawned on me that we have logged some serious mileage over the past 2.5 months. Looking at the oil change sticker in the upper left hand corner of our windshield, it was surprising to calculate that we were getting an oil change some 3 […]
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Leaving Banff was hard. You can spend a month there and touch very little of all the amazing trails, bodies of water, mountains and sights that the area has to offer. With that said, we were excited to get Tin E back in the shop in Spokane, fix the water tank and finally enjoy the […]
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As I write this, J’s driving down Route 3 in British Columbia toward the US border. Rather than wax poetic about her driving skills, the mountainous views or our first visit to a Canadian Wal-mart, I thought I would switch it up a bit and tell you about our “go-to” products on this trip. No […]
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Houston to Las Vegas to Spokane. When traveling for business, you probably wouldn’t be too excited about this route. When traveling with squirmy wormy Lil D, this route includes one too many flights. Imagine carrying something for over 6 hours that you can’t have touching the floor or leave the space of three airline seats. […]
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After spending several weeks back home in Maryland, we travelled to the Lone Star State to spend some quality time with family in Houston. J’s Grandma was celebrating her 89th birthday (90th if you go by the Vietnamese calculation where the newborn starts at 1 versus 0) and D’s uncle was celebrating his bday and […]
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For those of you who have been worried we fell into a geyser or into a den of Grizzlies, fear not – we’ve actually been back in MD. When you (forcefully) have to sell a business, you unfortunately need to spend a lot of time with your attorneys. Thus, we have been back East for […]
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Leaving Glacier was tough, but we were excited to visit a state none of us had ever been to – Idaho! Idaho looks like an upside down hatchet and we are in the little skinny handle part in the north. Interesting fact about this section is it’s in the Pacific time zone, whereas the rest […]
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