The Scenic Route Part IV – Westward Ho Having two job offers in the bag by the time you get home from a third interview is a pretty fantastic feeling – especially after the nightmare of the Houston economic downturn last year. So, it was time to debate the options and make some life-changing decisions…which has begun to feel fairly routine for the… Read More
The Scenic Route Part III – A Tale of Several Cities It turns out that being a ‘cloud engineer’ in the market for a job and willing to relocate pretty much anywhere in the country really lights a fire under the hordes of recruiters vying for a cut of a hefty signing bonus. The job calls started pouring in daily by the dozens and it was… Read More
The Scenic Route Part II – The Turning Page April and May passed in a blur of long, empty days. I would focus on photography as much as possible (still without a drop of internet!) and Russell would waste the majority of his waking hours at a company who had reneged on all their promises and betrayed all trust. We would live for the… Read More
The Scenic Route Part I – Not All That Glitters It’s been 125 days since we left our comfortable lives in Houston and set out for adventure, eyes bright with the prospect of a semi-nomadic, blissful future touring the States and creating a life of our own pace and choosing. Russell’s IT job would be loosely based in New York City, allowing us to experience… Read More
Fixing a leak – the easy/hard way. On the way back from Austin to Houston after a 2 month stay at a dealer getting the larger bedroom slide fixed… we blew a tire. That sucked. Immediately after having said tire replaced in the driveway of a random apartment complex we were forced to pull into… the toilet sprang a leak. That sucked even… Read More
A New Look in the Living Room When I bought my RV in 2012, one of the features of it was a fabric pattern clearly stolen from someone’s grandmother’s home in the late 1980s. While I can definitely see that browns and blacks go well with some accent colors… Gold is not the one I would choose. Also not in the quantity… Read More