Category: 2026

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Crossing the Pond for Florence

Kerri jumped at the opportunity to be free of the boat and immediately found a new adventure: a Florence & The Machine concert in Scotland. We’d both been obsessed with them for a couple years. It seemed like a big trip for a single-night show, but at first we thought,...

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Reaching another deadline

After our first major roadside repair job of 2026, we didn’t want to take huge risks driving far from a parts store. I still had a bad feeling another seal needed replacing, which would’ve meant completely redoing what I’d just finished. Miller Bar came to the rescue—an overnight spot not...

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Marcel Bleeds

Fresh off our first real van-adventure of 2026, we continued north up Highway 101. We still had one more family member to visit on our route up to Washington State, but in between was nothing but weeks of coastline and dirt roads—or at least that was the plan. The small...

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Getting Lost

With most of our family and friends visits out of the way, we had time to take our first adventure of the year. The Lost Coast has been on our todo list since last year’s drive north through California. It’s a stretch of coastline through California’s King Range—good for temperatures...

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Family First

We arrived back in the States and to Kerri’s parents’ place in California, where Marcel was awaiting our return since we left him wrapped up like a burrito back in January. It felt good to see the towering beast sitting there in the woods, just outside the window of our...