We entered Utah 3 days ago and have spent our time exploring Salt Lake City. Well, trying to anyway. This city is oddly bland. We wanted to stay for 3 nights so we would have 2 full days of exploring but as it turns out, that might not have been the best choice.
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After B, b, b, Boise, Boise (to the beat of Poison, Bell Biv DeVoe; this is what our soundtrack has been while were passing through the big B), we headed into Twin Falls, Idaho. Here we extended our stay from one to two nights to give the girls some down time.
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We spent 4 nights outside of Boise (at the Boise / Meridian KOA). I wasn’t expecting to like Boise. I had been to Boise once before, years ago, for work, and remember it as suburban sprawl. However, I had never been downtown. We spent each of our 3 days doing different things downtown and quite enjoyed the city. Here’s how we spent our 3 days.
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We are officially on the road after spending one last night at our friend’s house. Our first stop was the Painted Hills in central Oregon.
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The last week has been a flurry of activity as we prepare for our 6-month journey. All of that preparation comes to an end tomorrow, when we “soft launch”– aka, camp in our friends’ driveway.
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We made some decals for Wobbles and Dimes. On our test trips we noticed when other people had decals with their adventure blog URLs, it made for great conversation openers and therefore made us more likely to chat with those people. Hopefully these will inspire others to do the same, as we’d love to meet other people while we’re traveling.
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We have the van and Airstream almost fully packed for our big trip, so today I took the rig to our local Cat Scales (truck stop) to find out how much we weigh. The weight is important to know in-case we run into bridges with weight limits, but I was also concerned that we might be over our light-duty van’s capacity..
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We’re 4 days away from leaving on our big 6-month RV trip, so we should probably have at-least a vague idea where we’re headed. Plans will likely change, but here’s what we’re currently thinking.
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In order to make our 6-month trip more financially sound, we have been planning on renting out our house. This has been one of the more stressful parts of preparing for this trip. Fortunately, we’ve recently found some great tenants, and we couldn’t be more relieved.
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The Airstream Sport 22 unfortunately comes out of the factory with very low ground clearance. The grey water tank hangs down below the frame of the camper at the rear, where it drags pulling into and out of driveways that have more than a negligible slope. More than once we’ve winced as the tank made a terrible grinding sound as it dragged across the asphalt on the way out of a gas station parking lot. It was time to give this Airstream a lift.
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