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Working on our new home-base and finding time to travel
Now that we are over COVID we have work to do and places to go. Thanks for joining us for this segment of our never-ending journey. Here...

TheRollingStowes
Sep 19, 20223 min read
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Critical Tips for Working Remotely from a Van - By Guest writer Julia Merrill
While Darin and I are off the road for our new home remodel we are happy to have Julia Merrill provide us with these nuggets. Critical...

TheRollingStowes
Aug 16, 20223 min read
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Stay Healthy While Living the Van Life By Using These Strategies
Staying healthy while living the van life isn’t always cut and dried, since there are so many factors that go into the lifestyle. Having...

TheRollingStowes
Jul 14, 20223 min read
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Living in a Van and the Coronavirus
Like so many people around the world, our lives have changed because of the Coronavirus. What exactly is the Coronavirus? Well, first and foremost it is a virus. Yep, that is exactly what John Hopkins Medicine online says. Upon further search, according to WebMD, the first human Coronavirus was identified in 1965. How does one get Coronavirus? Spit, basically. Tiny sprays of spit passed through the air from one to another. Coronavirus is not fake, it has indeed killed million

TheRollingStowes
May 6, 20227 min read
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The New Home Base and a break from Van Travel
For the past few years we have been landlords. Nothing fancy just a couple of small homes on a lot in Port Orchard Washington. For the...

TheRollingStowes
Apr 29, 20225 min read
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A little Family Time and back to the West Coast
After spending time with the cousins, we moved on to see Mom. She happens to be a fellow van owner. We converted her Ford Transit last year for her to do some exploring of her own. South Georgia is a bit too warm for me and we still have Florida and Texas on our list, so the visit was short. Not to mention the fact that we have a home-base to set up in the Pacific Northwest. In Florida we visited my awesome nephews and their amazing families in the JAX area, my sister in the

TheRollingStowes
Apr 22, 20222 min read
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Liberty Bell, Philly Cheese Steaks, The Outer Banks and the Cyclorama
By this point in our journey we have put the van and ourselves to quite the test. Living in a converted Sprinter Van is not for everyone,...

TheRollingStowes
Mar 29, 20226 min read
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From Remnants of the Gilded Age in Newport RI to Manhattan
After the blizzard... of 2022 we continued our journey south. The storm really pelted the NE and left many without power. We saw cars...

TheRollingStowes
Mar 4, 20224 min read
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Meat Cove Canada to Portland Maine USA and a Blizzard
Our winter Canadian tour comes to an end. We learned so much traveling across Canada in these extreme conditions. First of all, one must...

TheRollingStowes
Feb 17, 20224 min read
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Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
After the show stopping Niagara Falls we drove through the busy city of Toronto and set our sights on Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City....

TheRollingStowes
Feb 11, 20224 min read
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Portage la Prairie, another Whiteout and Niagara Falls
So... Why Canada in the dead of winter? The number one reason is because we can. Our goal was to enter Canada, which we did with no plan...

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Jan 30, 20224 min read
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Canmore, Medicine Hat, Swift Current and Indian Head
When we closed our last blog post we had just gotten our new block heater installed in Calgary. They recommended we go to Banff and...

TheRollingStowes
Jan 22, 20225 min read
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Alberta Canada and -30 Degrees
This segment of our journey has a hurdle or two to overcome. The least of which is road conditions as close to a Whiteout as I've ever...

TheRollingStowes
Jan 19, 20226 min read
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Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada
Living in our converted Sprinter van comes with basic conveniences and challenges. Let's discuss those as we tour the west coast of...

TheRollingStowes
Jan 7, 20225 min read
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Oh Canada!
Here we go again. In 2020, Pre-Covid, Darin and I attempted to enter Canada to no avail. Since then it has been our goal to make it...

TheRollingStowes
Dec 26, 20215 min read
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Driving North, Scenic Views and Christmas Shopping on the Road
So far this season, I've avoided Amazon for Christmas gifts but the one remaining name on the list may be an Amazon purchase. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy the convenience of Amazon. But I try to think outside the Big Box. Darin got a new electric bike for an early Christmas... We wanted certain specifics due to space requirements in our converted Sprinter van. I ordered early so we'd have an address to deliver to and so we could pedal around once we started our full-time van

TheRollingStowes
Dec 17, 20214 min read
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From Prunedale to Cloverdale
This is one of my favorite views between Prunedale and Cloverdale... As we settle into our new lifestyle we have found that visiting...

TheRollingStowes
Dec 13, 20214 min read
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When The Dream Becomes a Reality
If you have followed us at all, you know we have been planning full-time travel in our converted Sprinter Van for some time now. On...

TheRollingStowes
Dec 6, 20214 min read
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Soon to be No More Sticks-N-Bricks... And Some Sad News
On July 1st 2008 we got the keys to our new home in Oceanside, California. For thirty days we worked hard on tearing down walls and...

TheRollingStowes
Nov 21, 20213 min read
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It's a New Day, It's a New Hip
I mentioned in a previous post that we are waiting on a few things to be done before we bail on California. One of which is done, I had a...

TheRollingStowes
Sep 25, 20215 min read
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