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10 Free Essential Plugins to Use for Your WordPress Blog
Plugins add functionality to your WordPress blog. Wondering which plugins to use for your WordPress blog? Here are 10 free must-have WordPress Plugins.
How to Convert Your WordPress.com Site to a Self-Hosted WordPress.org Site
Are you ready to convert your free WordPress.com site to a self-hosted WordPress.org site? This guide will walk you through the process step-by-step.
How to Easily Start a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog in 5 Steps
Wondering how to start your own WordPress blog? Use this guide to walk you through the step-by-step process of creating a self-hosted WordPress blog.
WordPress.com versus WordPress.org – What’s the Difference and Which One Should You Use?
Wondering what the differences are between WordPress.com versus WordPress.org? Read the complete guide here to find out which WordPress is best for you.
Adjusting To Our New Life After Full-Time RVing
After full-time RVing for over a year in search of our next home, we decided to settle down in Denver. Starting over in a new place and readjusting to life in the real world again had its challenges though. We’ve gone into business for ourselves and bought a home, making Colorado our homebase while still RVing when we can. We’ve realized the ideal situation for us is to have an RV to hit the road when we get the itch to go on an adventure while having a house to come home to when we get burned out from RV life.
Top 3 Reasons We Chose to Live in Denver (and Why You Should Too!)
Why we chose to live in Denver. We full-time RVed across the U.S. for more than a year in search of our next place to call home. It was quite the journey figuring out where we wanted to be long-term. After an extensive cross-country RV road trip through each of the Lower 48 United States, these former full-time RVers chose to settle down in Denver. Find out why!
Top 10 Insider RVing Tips You Need to Know
There’s a lot that goes into RVing, and it can be overwhelming for RV newbies. After full-time RVing for over a year across the U.S., I’ve learned a good amount and share my top RVing tips.
70 Useful RV Terms You Need To Know Before RVing
Are you new to RVing and lost with the RV lingo? I’ve got you! This handy RVing Terms Cheat Sheet covers 70 common RV words and phrases that will be helpful to know when you hit the road.
Where We Decided to Live!!!
I can't believe it's already been 19 months since we originally set out on our journey back in June 2014! Thank you for following along with us this entire time and enduring my delayed blogging! In my last blog post, I mentioned that when we finished our initial road trip through all 48 contiguous...
Back on the Road!
After accomplishing our goal of traveling through all 48 contiguous states, we returned to California, coming full circle with our journey. We spent 4 months in Temecula, CA (from December 2014 to April 2015), contemplating life and where to live, what to do for work/income, and basically where...
Shaving My Head!!!
A year ago, I did something rather drastic. I shaved my head! Before our road trip, my hair was long (almost down to my waist), and I had a lot of it. The thought of washing my hair with just 6 gallons of water in a tiny shower and then blow-drying it in an equally tiny bathroom gave me...
Days 190-192 (THE END…or is it?): Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona & California
Day 190 (12/7/14): Elk City, OK | Amarillo, TX | Albuquerque, NM When we rolled out of bed this morning and began preparing to leave, it was still dark out. We thought we’d be the only ones up and about that early in the morning, but several of our other fellow overnight campers were also anxious...
Days 186-189: Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas & Oklahoma
Day 186 (12/3/14): New Orleans, LA | Houston, TX | Pearland, TX So long New Orleans! {{{Waving goodbye with a tear in our eye as we drive away}}} It's been fun, but it's time to move on. The end is near! We’ve already been through Texas, but we made a slight detour to Houston to visit one of my...
Days 184-185: Louisiana (New Orleans!!!)
Day 184 (12/1/14): New Orleans, LA Today is the 6-month anniversary of our trip! And what better place to be celebrating at than New Orleans?! We got an early start to the day and revisited the French Quarter. The streets were eerily quiet in the morning, a stark contrast from the lively night...
Days 182-183: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana
Day 182 (11/29/14): Pensacola Beach, FL For our final day in the Pensacola area, we didn’t venture too far from our campground in Pensacola Beach, FL. We were staying at the Pensacola Beach RV Resort located on Santa Rosa Island, the barrier island of Pensacola Beach. The RV resort sits on the...
Days 180-181: more Florida
Day 180 (11/27/14): Orlando, FL | Pensacola, FL | Gulf Breeze, FL If our trailer hadn’t developed a colossal leak, we would have been done traveling by now. This is one of the major life lessons I’ve learned on this journey. I’m a hardcore planner, but I’ve realized that you can only plan so much...
Days 177-179: South Carolina & Florida
Day 177 (11/24/14): Hilton Head Island, SC | St. Augustine, FL | Orlando, FL After being without our home-on-wheels for 4 weeks, we finally get to pick our trailer up today! Our extended stay in Hilton Head Island, SC, has come to an end. As Justin was taking the trash out of our vacation rental...
Days 159-176: South Carolina
Days 159-176 (11/6/14-11/23/14): Hilton Head Island, SC At this point, we had visited as many places in Florida as we could before we would be working our way back towards the West Coast. With our RV still in the shop, we decided to set up camp in a vacation rental in Hilton Head Island, SC, while...
Days 157-158: Florida & South Carolina
Day 157 (11/4/14): Tampa, FL | St. Augustine, FL Staying in hotels with the pups has officially gotten old. It’s time to push the pause button for our time in Florida and hunker down in Hilton Head Island, SC, as we continue waiting for our RV to be repaired. At this point, our home-on-wheels has...
Days 155-156: Florida (Part 3)
Day 155 (11/2/14): Naples, FL | St. Petersburg, FL | Tampa, FL Since we didn’t arrive in Naples until late last night, we wanted to explore the city before we headed up to Tampa. The first place we came across was The Village on Venetian Bay. The waterfront shopping center contained fine dining...
Days 153-154: Florida (Part 2)
Day 153 (10/31/14): Fort Lauderdale, FL | Key West, FL While we were staying in Bar Harbor, ME, the camp host at the RV park told us that he spends his summers in Maine and winters in Key West, FL. We had always been intrigued by Key West, thinking the destination was a type of tropical paradise....
