Second to time spent with and for our own families, serving others is something we feel very strongly about. Service is a way to make the world a better place, to lift burdens, and to get to know our neighbors a bit better. Living on the road has changed the way we serve as we…
We are often asked how long we plan to travel. The answer is both simple and complicated. There are things we enjoy, and things we believe strongly in, that do not fit well with a traveling lifestyle. I love woodworking, home automation technologies, and technology meetup and hack fests. Jess loves regular photography shoots, regular…
We had a moment during our Disneyland vacation. Okay, it was more like a handful of moments where Sam and I just looked at each other and thought, “What are we doing?” It would feel so natural after we were done to drive back to Utah and resume our previous life. Vacation over, back to…
We are church people (hopefully that’s obviously by now). Each Sunday we track down a local congregation to attend where we spend the day as visitors. Normal LDS culture involves attending church in an assigned time and place with the same people every week. However, being a visitor is actually really easy. The LDS congregations…
As we planned our travel from the east to the west, we realized that we would be passing near Gilbert, Arizona during the LDS Temple Open House. LDS is an acronym for Latter-day Saints, short for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also known as the Mormons. Why LDS? Probably because I’m lazy. LDS…
