The Hitch

After a  long day of packing up for a month on the road, picking up Evangeline from the service shop, towing to the first campsite, and unpacking everything into the trailer, Dan and Janice sit back …

Welcome back to the Hitch! It's been two years since Janice and Dan pulled Evangeline, their 27' Airstream trailer into its storage space. It wasn't supposed to be that way, but the global pandemic h…

Join Janice and Dan at home a few days after pulling Evangeline into Storage to reflect on what it all meant.

But first, a few last tales from the road--due to a technical snafu on Day 66, they relay…

Surrounded by a chorus of crickets, Janice and Dan share one last night on the road with you. It's a bittersweet full circle as they end the trip at the same campsite they started in, just outside L…

Week 10 opens with one of the last two days on the road--and Dan and Janice are joined by the 4-year-old who has A LOT to say about the super fun campsite Janice had booked. With just two days left, …

Week Nine wraps up with a change of plans.

Waking up to a huge rain storm this morning and looking at the weather radar, Dan and Janice realized that the next two days would be spent driving entirely…

Week Nine takes a detour into Lincoln Nebraska, the latest stop on the road home.
Instead of just pulling into the campsite and holing up, everyone follows the 14-year-old's lead and venture into Lin…

The Road Home begins, and the first stop lands Evangeline at a campground off I-80 in North Platte, Nebraska.

It's nothing special but it's better than running out of gas which almost happened before…

This is it: the last day in Lyons Colorado and the last day before the drive home begins.

It's a melancholy day, where everyone made the most of it but nobody wants this next stage to happen.

Life on…

After a slow couple days, Janice and the kid set out to have a blowout day in Denver and wow did it deliver, while Dan just stayed in the trailer and worked.

He missed out though, with a whirlwind da…

Janice is out with a friend tonight, so Dan sits down with the 14-year-old to get his perspective of life on the road.

What's it like to be a teen sleeping on a table in a tiny space with your parent…

Week Nine starts with a whimper. After three days of non-stop birthdaying, everyone is tired and fried. But beyond that, this is the start of the end--the last full week on the road, and the last few…

Week Eight wraps ups with something unexpected: a horse bath.

The title really tells the story here. Today the whole family got invited to give a horse a bath. You know, as happens.

Well, Janice and …

Everyone was at the park today, a beautiful sunny Saturday in the mountains. Huge families grilling, so many tubers that there were lines to get on the river. The whole park was a party and it remind…

Join in the celebration because it's Janice's birthday! Dan, the 14-year-old, and the birthday girl herself join in recounting the day's festivities.

There was a lot, from an early-morning awning dec…

Today Janice and the kids drove the peak-to-peak highway--which traverses the Rockies--to the small mountain town of Nederland, Colorado. Ned, for short.

A former mining town that got taken over by h…

Week Eight continues as Dan and Janice really settle into life next the adorable town of Lyons and to the rush of the river alongside Evangeline.

Today they never left town and yet the day was as ful…

Week eight continues as Janice and Dan record riverside. While this campsite is one they stayed at last year, the river is entirely different. What a year ago was a fairly low river that could beach …

Week Eight opens with a move day. This one was not an especially hard one, having to drive a total of 36 minutes from one campsite to the next. But what a difference those 36 minutes made!

Instead of…

Listener, Week Seven wasn't supposed to end like this--with Dan and Janice completely exhausted in Evangeline's back bedroom--but that's what traveling with kids will do sometimes.

An over-tired four…