We loved our little Airstream Sport 22 camper during our 5-month adventure. However, having the girls both share the dinette bed isn’t totally ideal. Our 5-year-old told us she missed having her own bed. To that end, it’s my goal to replace the dinette in the Airstream with bunk beds.
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Going into this trip, I wasn’t really sure if our life on the road would cost more or less than our life at home. We had the additional income of renting out our house, but we also had additional expenses such as campground fees and additional gasoline. Here I’ll look back at the costs associated with our travel.
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We love our current van, Dimes. However, we didn’t purchase him to be a tow vehicle. When we bought the van we were envisioning weekend to week-long trips. The van is perfect for that. Now, however, we’re focussed on longer-term travel towing our Airstream, Wobbles. For that purpose, Dimes could be improved upon.
justinIn mid-December I made an appointment at the Las Vegas Airstream dealer to get some work done on Wobbles, our Airstream, at the beginning of January. We knew we would be in Vegas since Sarah’s mom was visiting, and we were coming up on the 1-year anniversary of our Airstream purchase and wanted to get a last round of warranty work done before our warranty expired.
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We’d been in rural southern Utah for the past 2 weeks and had seen some beautiful sights. However, being 17 days without finding a fully stocked grocery store had our meal options were becomming quite basic. That’s why, when we saw the hotels and tourist shops of Moab’s Main Street, it was quite literally an Oasis in the midst of a desert for us.
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After Salt Lake City, we hit the road to head toward Zion National Park. On the way we ended up finding a great spot to boon-dock for a night and enjoyed our first truly quiet night of the trip.
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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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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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