The Hitch

The distances in Montana are huge and they’re starting to drag on Dan and Janice. A simple errand can mean a 70 mile round trip and when the major attraction, Yellowstone, is over 40 miles away and t…

Dan, Janice, and family take a trip of a more personal nature today: A drive over to the tiny town that Janice lived in.

Originally planned as a Yellowstone day, a faulty tail light meant a trip in t…

It’s Janice’s Birthday! And while you’d like a day of uninterrupted fun and awesomeness, you’re living on the road so who knows what might happen?

As it turns out: a few things that were a bummer. Fi…

OK, so it turns out that power outage wasn’t actually nothing and there’s a live wire buzzing and hissing about 30 yards away.

No, really.

Also, in addition to the power being out the water is too.

S…

Recording in the dark because the power just went out moments before due to a wild rain storm that just blew through, Janice and Dan recount today’s visit to Bozeman, Montana, a town that—at least to…

Finally having arrived in their home base for the next five days, Janice and Dan sit on a creaky swing on the banks of the Yellowstone River. Their campsite is located in an area called “Paradise Val…

Traveling with your family in a 27’ trailer can be wonderful, other times it can be tonight.

After an easy drive day, the crew settles down in Buffalo, Wyoming a small town with not a lot more beyond…

After a week trailerless in the Colorado mountains, Janice and Dan and family are back on the road, pulling Evangeline, and heading north.

Dan’s out of a job now, which means the last third of the tr…

Janice and Dan say goodbye to Evangeline for a week, leaving her parked next to a beautiful vintage airstream in an RV storage facility in suburban Denver.

It’s a bittersweet goodbye: When originally…

The halfway point of the trip is fast approaching, and nobody wants it to end. Which is why it felt like fate when Janice met a couple at the campsite truly living the dream: Living full time in thei…

Look, do Dan and Janice talk about the laundromat for the entire episode? Yes, yes they do.

But it was a really great laundromat. And not even because it was located next to a dispensary called “The …

Dan’s out with a friend from Denver when he discovers an increasingly urgent series of text messages from Janice: The power’s out at the trailer!

Mistakes were made. Mistakes involving trying out the…

Dan’s working out of the tiny library in this two-street town and Dan and Janice sit by the banks of the rushing St Vrain river to discuss the many times they’ve used libraries on their travels.

That…

It’s a move day and while they’re only traveling a half hour away, Janice and Dan find themselves running late with park rangers circling. In the sprint to move, they realize something: They’re learn…

Mistakes were made. A weekend trip to one of the biggest water parks in America has left Dan with a bruised rib. Was the teenaged staff to blame?
Oh most definitely not, just a bunch of full-grown ad…

Last year Janice joined a club: breast cancer. It’s a club nobody wants to be in, but once you’re in, sharing stories with other members is crucial to making it through.

Today was one of those days, …

Join Dan & Janice outside the trailer for once, as the unrelenting heat finally relented for an evening! Instead of huddling on their bed, they sit around the picnic table at dusk to tell you this:

T…

Holy crap it is hot. Every day Janice & Dan have been in Colorado it has topped 100 degrees and while the AC is (thankfully) working in the trailer, everything else is really starting to heat up. Sur…

Three weeks on the road and Janice and Dan have settled into a real routine now. He’s working, she’s heading out with the kids. Even the dog is heading to day care!

It’s all starting to feel really… …

Some days are pretty great, other days you find mystery poop smeared on your trailer cushions.

There’s no nice way to put it folks: Dan and Janice find themselves embroiled in POOPGATE. It's not a co…