Hello! It’s been awhile, I know! Sorry! I’ll give you a quick wrap up of where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing so we’re all caught up….. 🙂
After we got home late fall last year from our second season of RV living, we enjoyed holidays at home in Ohio with family and friends. Always great to see everyone and the RV went to indoor storage. I have learned it’s very hard to find indoor storage for RVs, but that’s another story.
We had planned to return to Port Saint Joe, FL (in the panhandle) again for January and February in the RV, but, they had a big hurricane in the area and were still recovering. So we decided to go the other direction and instead booked a house in the mountains of New Hampshire. We left the RV in storage and drove to Littleton, NH and stayed in a winter wonderland. Lots of snow, and we did all kinds of winter activities: snowshoes, skiing, cross country skiing, hiking with spikes on our boots. Gerry even got his own set of boots and a special winter coat – the snow was deeper than him most of the time and he really didn’t enjoy the cold all that much! Guy and Katelyn and Samantha came for a visit too – we drove through a snow storm in the mountains to get to the airport to pick them up. And then our car wouldn’t make it up the steep driveway at 3:00 am when we got home, so all the kids had to push the car in the snow. That was an exciting way to kick off their visit! But lots of fun in the snowy mountains including snowmobiles while they were there.
Gerry in his new coat and boots! 
We spent all spring in Ohio, and the RV went to the dealership for routine maintenance and repair of a few little things. I have to say (and I hope I’m not jinxing us!) the RV has been just great, and very few issues, and nothing major. We got a new truck in the meantime, exact same as the first one – Ram 3500 diesel, dually. Steve felt it was best to be sure we didn’t have any problems down the road so we got the 2019 version of what we already had.
We did take the RV out for a short trip to North Carolina in late May – early June. About 3 weeks in the mountains of North Carolina. We got out for several hikes and our friends Dave and Jeannie came for a stay with their dog Roscoe too!
Our official 3rd RV season got underway on July 21, 2019! A little later than we’d like, but Steve needed to be in Ohio for work. This season we’ll be out until about mid-November, and are going west again – after visiting with Guy in MN and Samantha in CO, we’ll spend time in Wyoming, Montana, the San Juan mountains in Colorado, and northern New Mexico. We’ll be visiting some new places and also going back to some favorites in the San Juan mountains and New Mexico.
So we headed straight to Minnesota to see Guy and Katelyn (who are engaged!!!!) We closed on the second house for Aspire Sober Living. You may recall we launched Aspire Sober Living last summer with Guy, and the one house we have is operating smoothly and we wanted to expand. After months of looking, Guy found the perfect house and we were able to be there for the closing and spent about a week helping out with projects to get the house ready for occupancy. City of Saint Paul licensing should be approved in a few weeks and he’ll be off and running with house number 2. So happy and proud of him, and we had a great visit with Katelyn.
Aspire Sober Living expands to 2 houses! 
Then it was off to Denver to see Samantha. She moved to a new apartment in June, started a new job in April, and bought a new car in June…lots to catch up on with her! We spent a lovely week with her, and took in a few spectacular sunsets at her apartment – she has a great view of the mountains and the sunsets are amazing. We also made it to Rocky Mountain National Park and a short hike near her office in Boulder with Gerry.
We arrived here in Dubois, Wyoming after a 2 day drive from Denver. A nice little town about 45 minutes outside Grand Tetons NP. We’ll be here for a total of 9 days, then we’re off to Cody, WY. We’re visiting Grand Tetons National Park and enjoying mountain hiking again! It feels like it’s been a really long time since we’ve been in the RV and in the mountains. We love it! And yes, the campground internet is still crappy everywhere and makes doing things like this blog difficult. But, hey, if that’s all we have to complain about, then life is good indeed! The RV feels like home and we are so happy in the mountains. We love the big sky and the air is clear. Lots of wildflowers here too, which is a nice surprise. We saw a mama grizzly with her cub along the road the other day, and inside Grand Tetons National Park we saw a moose and an eagle.
Here’s some pictures of this year’s adventure so far, hope you enjoy! I’ll keep you updated as our trip moves along…I’m sure there’s plenty of hikes and adventures to be had!