Our Story

After five years of traveling full-time in our RV, Tim and I purchased a condo in Loveland, Colorado, on May 23, 2019. Although we had now settled down in one place, we were not finished with traveling. This blog is intended to document our travel adventures after “hanging up the keys.”

I was inspired to start this blog in January 2023, almost four years later as we began to make preparations for more extensive travels. However, to try and make our story whole, I have succeeded in writing “after-the-fact” posts for the intervening years since 2019. Luckily, I had kept an abbreviated journal during most of that time, so writing these posts wasn’t too difficult. That said, many of the posts themselves are abbreviated as well!

This blog is a follow-up to the blog that I started, but never finished, about our full-time RV travels, See Where the Road Leads. Keeping up with writing a blog can be hard work, and I hope to do better with this one! (Maybe I’ll go back and finish that one as well.)

See Where the Road Leads began in May 2014, just after Tim and I sold our house in Estes Park, Colorado, to embark on a new life as full-time RVers. Traveling in an RV, let alone full-timing in one, was not something either one of us ever envisioned doing. That all began to change in 2010, however, when I proposed the idea of taking a year off and traveling throughout the United States. Tim agreed to help me make this travel dream of mine a reality, and he was able to take a nine-month leave of absence so we could travel from September 2011 to June 2012. I faithfully documented that trip my Road Trip Ramble blog.

On October 22, 2013, Tim decided to retire early, and he set a date of March 21, 2014. We had no plans for our future at that point, and full-time RVing was not high on the list of possibilities. Although I had continued to follow the blogs of full-time RVers and could easily envision myself as one, Tim was not so sure. As we continued to talk about our future, however, he came to the conclusion that this type of lifestyle might be the way to go. I don’t remember when we made the decision, but once the decision was made, we began to work toward that goal. We would sell the house, store a few things and hit the road.

We had wonderful adventures during our full-timing years. But, in 2019, it was time to settle down. This blog will document our reasons and what came next.

Before we get to that, however, let me backtrack a bit and tell you a little about us so you can see how we arrived at where we are today.

TIM

Tim was born in Fort Morgan, Colorado, and served as the Museum Curator at Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado, until his retirement. Prior to that, he worked for the National Park Service at Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona.

Before joining the National Park Service, Tim worked as an archeologist for private companies and universities throughout the west.

Tim’s interests other than archeology and museums include libraries, art, natural history, political science, world affairs, economics, cooking, and feline psychology.

SARAH

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and am currently enjoying a life of leisure. After working for the City of Miami for 24 years as the City’s Historic Preservation Officer, I took early retirement in 2005.

The first thing I did after leaving the city was to take a solo, seven-week Retirement Road Trip across the country. This trip only whetted my appetite for a longer trip. For the next few years, I indulged my gypsy soul. I moved to the west, living in Montana for a year, and then setting out on another open-ended road trip, which I called Wide Open Spaces. Both of those road trips introduced me to blogging.

I fulfilled one of my dreams to work in a national park during the summer of 2008, when I worked at Grand Teton National Park. From there, I moved to Rocky Mountain National Park in November to work as a full-time volunteer. My stint at Rocky led me to the park’s museum facility where I met Tim. I found much more than I had bargained for, and Tim and I were married in October 2009.

Neither Tim nor I socially network – no Facebook, no Twitter. This blog is our link to the outside world.

We invite you to travel vicariously with us as we explore the world. It’s sure to be an adventure.