Our Life Experiments- A travel and adventure blog

Just when we thought we had our plans all figured out (at least until after Russia), we got one more life curve-ball thrown at us, and once...

One night in December, while we were back home in Fayetteville, I was checking my Facebook feed. One of my running girlfriends had posted a ...

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...

December 31 was exactly one year since I quit my job. For the last year both Skyler and I have been unemployed or as Skyler likes to call it...

This year we have a lot to be thankful for. This year we finally realized a dream that had been in the making for over 5 years. That dream ...

After many , many   long conversations we've finally come to some kind of a decision about how we will proceed from here. Without furthe...

While traveling the last 9 months, we've kept track of all of our spending. Down to the penny. (I'm a sucker for numbers, what can I...

Monday morning we packed up our truck and trailer in Memphis and set sail for our hometown, Fayetteville, Arkansas . We'd driven this 32...

After Nashville we only had one more stop before going home for the holidays, and it was Memphis . We had lived in Memphis for 3.5 years, an...

While hiking in the Shenandoah Valley the other day Sky and I had a funny moment. We were on the return portion of our out and back hike out...

So here we are, in the home stretch, with just under three weeks until we're back home in Fayetteville, AR. We made the decision to be h...

Tuesday was Skyler and I's birthday. Yes, we share a birthday! Even though this was our 11th birthday to share with each other, the fact...

Today is our 8 month anniversary of setting off on this Great American Road Trip of ours. It's hard to put into words how I feel about t...

We've made it to New England! It seems like we were just on the West Coast, and here we are in Massachusetts. Crazy. Hello, home!...

Today (September 16, 2012) we have been on the road 207 days. My digital camera numbers every single picture I take and as of February 22, 2...

Our last day in Minneapolis we sat down to plan our visit to New England. We had decided that after Chicago we would head all the way east t...

On Wednesday we hit the six month mark for our travels. Thinking about what a monumental event this was for us, I started thinking about all...

A while back I'd mentioned that we'd almost gotten to the end of our originally planned itinerary for this trip. When we'd sat d...

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...