Time Saving Device

Time Saving Device

Any opportunity to avoid delays while traveling is a joy. We have an item that has saved us time while driving, and we already had it in our car. It's an "NC Quick Pass Flex transponder," a device stuck to our windshield that tells North Carolina when we drive on the...

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Useful Items for Road Trip and Hotel Life

Useful Items for Road Trip and Hotel Life

Anything that helps make road trip and hotel life easier is worth the investment. We've personally been using these enough to endorse them. If you have any ideas for other items, or any tips, please let us know in the comments. Click on the text links or photos to see...

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The Pantry

The Pantry

A Volkswagen Tiguan is not a large vehicle. We had to make many tough choices selecting what we were going to take with us for a one year journey. Then we needed to consider whether we wanted to take everything into and out of our hotel rooms every stay. Is there...

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Patience

Patience

It's been a little more than a month on the road, staying in hotels. We've been in eight hotels, counting two where we spent only one night and left because they were terrible. We're learning a lot about #hotellife. Mostly, we're learning to be patient. With limited...

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What’s Important to You?

What’s Important to You?

When we decided to put all our belongings into storage and drive around North America for a year in a small SUV, staying in hotels, we didn’t quite comprehend how little room we’d have for stuff.

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Anticipated Challenges

Anticipated Challenges

What’s that they say? There’s what we know. There’s what we know we don’t know. Then there’s what we don’t know we don’t know.

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