Author: Laura

Sorry for the late update on things. We moved into our tent on Wednesday, and then Thursday morning it rained like one of those steady, but not hard, rains that we get in Iowa for three or four hours. Apparently it only rains like that once every 3 to 4 years down here, and being…

Today was a very busy day. We did a lot of laundry, a lot of cleaning, a finished cleaning the cosmoline off the heater and assembling it, and put the rain fly on our big tent so that we could get moved in today. After all of that we went to town and got fajitas…

Today we went to Alamogordo to get supplies and to get the oil changed on the truck. It’s pretty amazing that we’ve already driven more than 6500 miles in the past 7.5 weeks. We’re really grateful for it. We have a topper coming for the truck, but I kind of wish we didn’t right now….

Today we had a lovely lazy day. When we first started this journey our mentor told us that we did not need chairs and to just sit on 5 gallon buckets. When we replenished our gear after the really bad contamination early on, we splurged and got $5 Walmart bag chairs. Usually I never have…

Today was a great day. There was nothing out of the ordinary, it was just good. The weather is a little bit warmer although the wind was still blowing really hard as usual for this area. We got laundry done, ate breakfast and dinner, got a PO Box, went to Family Dollar and got some…

Today was a divide and conquer kind of day. Wesley went to Alamogordo to get 1 inch metal electrical conduit to cut into our tent poles, lumber, some other parts, and best of all, an air mattress!! I stayed at camp to do laundry. We usually soak the day’s laundry overnight, and then wash it…

So last night ended up being pretty miserable because our feet were so cold. We got more socks and are trying out a hot water bottle at our feet tonight. Wesley got the Mr. heater working today and we even got it going in the tent tonight, but then it started throwing flames out of…

It’s funny how our heat tolerance is so relative. Even though yesterday’s meltdown was largely due to me being cold, last night I thought I might spontaneously combust because I was hot sleeping in a bed without near the amount of covers that we sleep with every night. 68° when I killed the HVAC did…

This is a super discouraging post, but it’s reality. We had such a wonderful thanksgiving and then went directly into another storm. Yesterday the wind was blowing so hard, it caved in Wesley’s side of the tent, and the dirt blew in and covered everything again like the first storm here. He woke up with…

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that you all had a wonderful day. Wesley and I were talking this morning about how we don’t think Thanksgiving looks like Thanksgiving for very many people this year, and that our not being able to be with our families today wasn’t really all that different from what it would…