Even though our hearts mostly remain on the road, Penny Lane still resides in Dallas, so when we head off to our next adventure, the most dangerous aspect is usually this: leaving Dallas. It’s a city of over 1 million people, but when you add in all the surrounding cities that it’s grown into, the…
I need your help because I really can’t decide if I dislike “leave your mark on the world” or “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” more! I think they were both written by someone who simply wanted to “leave their mark on the world” with an inspirational…
We fell victim to a Youtube prank. It started when the television in our camper developed lines in the screen. Okay, you got me, it didn’t develop lines as much as it was damaged when a projectile was errantly launched in its direction. But that’s a different story. As most of our generation does when…
“We should probably be doing this with climbing equipment”, I thought as I surveyed the crossing which perched us on a sandstone ledge 300 feet up in the air. The toe bed in my favorite orange Asolo hiking boots were wedged into the two inches of flat rock that acted as the tiny bridge before…
The efficiencies of capitalism demands specialization. Adam Smith was one of the first to recognize the power of breaking down work into repeatable steps that can then be improved and perfected. He observed that it allowed a group of people to make tens of thousands of pins per day, versus the hundreds they’d produce if…
Much like any adventure, it all started with a Google search “Vintage Airstream for sale“. It was to be an adventure across North America to visit so many places we compared to the US as we traveled the world in 2013. It was also an escape hatch that took me away from my overly stressful…