Our Life Experiments- A travel and adventure blog

The drive from Tucson to Phoenix was a piece of cake and took us just over two hours. The desert landscape was similar to what we’d seen com...

Wednesday morning we woke up at the gas station on the side of Interstate 10. It was a bright and sunny morning in the New Mexican desert an...

I can't believe we've already been in Austin for over two weeks! We've fallen into a routine here, made up of running, mountain ...

Houston is the fourth largest city in the US, right after New York, LA and Chicago. Last time we'd visited Texas we were just hours away...

So how is everyone doing on following through with their New Year's resolutions? Me? Not so good. I didn't really go into the year w...

This week I picked the coldest day yet to bike to the local library. The average temperature hovered around 30 degrees all day. I wore a fac...

Saturday morning we joined the Blue Ridge Parkway just before the border with North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469 mile long two...

We spent an awesome 6 days in Washington DC. While in the city we got to visit with three friends from back home (all three have made DC the...

After Detroit we were headed for the Niagara Falls . We had two options on how to get there: through Canada or by going south of Lake Erie o...

After Minneapolis we crossed into our 16 th state, Wisconsin. We had planned to spend one night in Madison , the state capitol, but were so...

We spent Labor Day weekend in the city of Minneapolis . Minnesota was our 15 th state to visit on this trip, and I’m happy to say that the ...

To continue our trek east we headed north from our parking spot on Grassy Lake road, back through Yellowstone Park. When planning our drive ...

On Wednesday we made a day trip outside of Vancouver to visit the home of the 2010 winter Olympics, Whistler Mountain . That morning started...

So, late Sunday afternoon we decided to check the customs rules for entering Canada. The funny thing was that we were heading into Canada th...

After spending a month in Portland, we tore ourselves away and drove to the coast. Our first stop was in Tillamook, famous for the Tillamook...

We have been here in Vancouver Washington (just outside of Portland) for just over two weeks now. Living somewhere stationary has been a ve...

On our trip we have come across two cities that we had no expectations for, and but where we came away very pleasantly surprised: Austin an...

Tuesday morning we packed up, and drove our last portion of highway 101 in California. We turned off on highway 199 at mile marker 794. What...

We had found street parking in Arcata, right by campus, and it was convenient to walking to downtown for the festival, but unfortunately, it...

So we've spent the last week in Marin County , in an RV park in Larkspur. Larkspur is a small town that is on the water, and is known f...