January 20, 2026
Wow.
We made it almost a month past our first year on the road, and what a year it has been. Exhilarating, frightening, challenging, and never boring. We went as far north as Manistique, MI, and as far south as our current winter spot, Yuma, AZ.
The desert does odd things...
45° N. to 32° N.
We went as far east as Lapeer, MI, and as far west as Yuma, AZ.
-114° W. to -83° W.
Why in the world would I do something so geeky, as to tell you the latitude and longitude of some of our travel spots?
I’ll circle back.
We’ve done what we set out to do, which in the RV world, is called, ‘Chasing the 70.” The idea is, you travel north in the summer, where the temps aren't as brutal (but mosquitos and humidity might be), then back down south as the fall and winter approaches. You try to stay in the window of 70(ish) degrees.
We found the patterns of this traveling, the rhythms dictated by the seasons, constantly a thrill. You do the same ‘dance of the seasons,’ when in a sticks’n bricks—as we did for all our lives in Colorado—but the sameness, the ritual, is different on the road.
It’s different than the stationary, non-RV life; it’s discovery, every day. It’s knowing we’ll see new and unknown places, most we’ve never seen before, sometimes on a daily basis.
The stark beauty of the desert with its creosote bushes and cactus, the wooded wonders of the Upper Midwest, with forests so different than the ones in our native Colorado, where you can see many feet into the woods: not so much in Michigan’s forests! The crisp, cool mornings in Yuma, where ‘cool’ constitutes 49F°, to the sultry, humid, and foggy mornings outside Chicago.
Back around….living at 40°N, -105°W, the patterns never change. Oh, there’ll be differences in the timing of seasons, surprises regarding storms, and the like: out here, on the road, we experience sooo many different things, sooo many new places, sooo many interesting folks.
It’s the attitude of latitude, it's the rhythm of longitude. It’s change, it's a rebirthing of sorts, and we STILL relish every day
Seeya on the road!
