Inspiring travel stories, tips, and guides from a couple exploring the world one destination at a time.
Last Updated: May 2026
Twenty-five years. Seven homes spread across San Diego County — downtown, the beach, a golf course community, and finally rural Rancho Santa Fe, where we grew Zinfandel grapes and made wine in the backyard for a decade. We loved all of it. And in January 2017, we sold or gave away almost everything we owned, staged the house, and drove east toward Florida to start a life we’d been thinking about for years. This is where the blog really begins.
Last Updated: May 2026
Sioux Falls was our first real stop as full-time RVers — not for the sightseeing, but for the paperwork. We needed to establish a domicile state before we could leave California behind, and after researching the options, South Dakota made the most sense. What we didn’t expect was how much we’d enjoy the city itself. We arrived in mid-November 2016, a few days before the first snow of the season, and left genuinely impressed.
