Seven years ago I started Wanderer Financial. After years of being asked how I afford the lifestyle we live, I decided to show people. Since we took off sailing in 2003 I’ve acquired a lot of new skills. After all this time spent fixing boats and motorhomes in order to … Read More
Day at the Beach
The weather was absolutely incredible during our visit to Cannon Beach. Clear skies, warm-ish temps, and even a full moon. We’re always up early, so each day we got to watch the moon slowly sink into the sea while the sky gradually lightened up behind us. The full moon caused … Read More
Cannon Beach
After a couple of weeks of life in suburbia we packed up Grammy and Bridget and headed towards the salt air. It’s easy to forget Portland is just two hours from some of the best coastline in America. Grammy checking out the new digs in Cannon Beach. Gotta love shoulder … Read More
Fair Season
You can hardly live in Portland and not have a nose ring, so Ouest made a couple out of paper clips and got Grammy in on the act. Ouest has been taking guitar lessons while we’ve been out here. Amazing what a difference a good teacher makes. We tried this … Read More
Beach Birthday
My mom and her twin sister had a pretty big birthday coming up, so we gathered up a bunch of family and headed for a beach house rental to celebrate. Our timing was incredibly lucky—the weather in Portland while we were gone was 103 degrees, the temps on the beach … Read More
Saying Goodbye to the Bus
My birth mother and one of my sisters came down to visit for a couple of days. This was the first time we had met Hallie, but it didn’t take the kids long to warm up to her. Ouest tells us she wishes she could have a mustache, so we … Read More
Comfortable
A couple of months ago I had this conversation with Ouest and afterwards I jotted it down. I found it on my desktop today: When I told Ouest that we were thinking about taking a smaller truck to South America, instead of our blue bus, I explained to her that … Read More
Cousins
We could spend weeks in Seattle and not have enough time to see all our friends. Cruisers and Overlanders alike seem to congregate up here. We did get to spend a few hours with our friends from Drive Nacho. Shacked up, pregnant, but still scheming towards their next adventure. Love … Read More
Seattle Tourists
I’ve said it a million times, but it’s true, that when you live this wandering lifestyle the world gets smaller. Case in point, the other day we got to meet up with our friends from Mali Mish who we last saw in Santa Barbara about a year ago. We also … Read More
Pumpkin Patch
The kids made blueberry muffins with Ali in the morning. The dog got up on the counter when we all left the room and ate the muffins. I shot the dog. We know Halloween is like four weeks away, but that can’t stop us from hitting up the pumpkin patch. Last … Read More
Around Portland
The other day Lowe asked Ouest if she wanted to play photo booth. I’d never heard of this before, but within seconds he was dressing her up in boas and taking her picture. They played this for days, giggling the whole time. The pictures below are theirs, obviously. We’ve been … Read More