ByFaithFullTime

  "If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."  ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder ~ In addition to our great day trip to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in southern Utah, we found a couple other lesser-known (but super cool) spots not far outside Zion. The first just sounded too Middle Earth not to stop: The Belly of the Dragon. Originally dug as a large drainage tunnel under Hwy 89, this sandstone “cave” was long enough to appear pitch black and foreboding at the outset, but short enough to make do without a flashlight on a sunny day. There was about a quarter mile hike that dead-ended on the other side, so we got to come back through the massive tunnel, which did have the eerie resemblance of an oversized digestive tract.   The other worth-the-stop spot just off the highway north of Kanab was the Sand Caves (also called the Moqui Caverns). To access them, we pulled off at a parking lot that seemingly had no purpose, then hiked around a curve between the highwa...

  “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?”  ~ Luke 14:28 ~ A common question for all fulltime RVers is whether it really is less expensive than living in a house. The answer? It depends. If you hop around campgrounds and RV parks and pay daily rates on a daily basis for hookups, then you’d better be made of money, honey! Paying a weekly or monthly rate plus utilities at a park is somewhat cheaper, depending on your location, but can be about as expensive as living in an apartment in some places. Of course, it also depends on how often you move, how far you travel, and a whole host of other things like activities, memberships, and commodity consumption, etc. Since we don’t tend to do things the typical way, the way we RV is a bit different as well. We almost exclusively boondock; that is, we park our rig on public lands and live fairly self-sufficiently, without hookups. We rely o...

  Hello and Happy March, Family and Friends!! I want to apologize for the lengthy break between posts! We've had quite a start to the year; some big career changes, lots more travel than expected, and just plain busy life with kids. We've really enjoyed our time "wintering" in the South, especially this past month in Florida (something we had told ourselves this past Fall that we wouldn't do, but God had other plans!) I'm in the midst of training my replacement at work, but plan to resume posting within the next week or two max. Hopefully I can kick my videographer (aka HUSBAND) into gear to start putting together videos for the blog again as well! He's so good at it :) We've got a lot of catch-up work to do, but are looking forward to getting back into it. Thank you all for sticking with us and running well in this unpredictable race of life!!  "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weigh...