The Hitch

Janice and Dan are so excited because people wrote to them and they have questions to answer!

In this episode, they answer questions about traveling with kids: When should you leave? What should you…

They're back! Join Janice and Dan back inside Evangeline. No, they're not back on the road, just dropping off some bedding after a month away from the trailer but they're here to catch you up on how …

They’re home. Sad and exhausted and recorded in the basement of their home (which feels huge) Janice and Dan look back at the last day and ahead at what’s next.

It’s been an amazing sixty-one days fu…

This is it, the last night in the trailer. Tonight Janice and Dan are joined in the trailer by their 13-year-old who looks back on the last eight weeks with them.

It’s a bittersweet goodbye punctuate…

With time running out, the crew makes a day of it at the mall! But not just any mall—join Janice and Dan under a roller coaster at the Mall of America, the largest, most overwhelming, mall you will e…

They’re back in Minneapolis and time is looping back on itself for Dan and Janice and family, as the time spent here two months ago feels closer than time spent in South Dakota last week. Time is a f…

It’s almost done now. After a drive from Sioux Falls to Southwest Minneapolis, Janice and Dan pull into the last campground of the trip.

Following the same route back as they did out allows them some…

Dan and Janice return to the same campsite in Sioux Falls they were in seven weeks ago. And the contrast is striking: They know what they’re doing.

Well, mostly.

Janice does blow a fuse when cooking …

Janice and Dan spend the last wilderness day on the road driving down a long dirt road. What’s at the end? A little town called scenic. That sounds nice!

Well, Scenic is not what the name might imply…

Join Janice and Dan in the back yard of Wall Drug to hear stories of tourist traps and nuclear missiles.
Wait, what?

It’s true: This area of South Dakota is not just known for the Badlands, but also …

The one unfaced fear that Dan and Janice have had in 53 days on the road was faced today: Towing the trailer in the rain.

Just about 90 minutes before they had to leave the Black Hills for the Badlan…

It’s the last night in the Black Hills, the end of their longest stay of the trip and the start of the road home. Both Dan and Janice don’t’ want to leave, don’t want to head back, and want to stay h…

Dan and Janice and the crew head down from the hills for a day in Rapid City.

What began as an errand run ended at the top of the highest mountain in town surrounded by dinosaurs.

No, really, in 1936…

Today is Day fifty of the trip—less than two weeks from done—and it’s got Dan and Janice thinking about how time moves too fast.

Despite living in a tin can with a three year old, a thirteen year old…

Something’s causing Dan to sneeze and Janice’s eyes to burn and it’s probably the constant campfire smoke that hovers over this campground. Even though many of the trailers at this campsite are the s…

Join Dan and Janice at the campsite’s dishwashing station, where they’re cleaning up from the day. Why not just do dishes inside the trailer? Because they don’t have a sewer hookup at this site, so t…

Dan and Janice are back in the Black Hills and there is a rodeo happening right across from where they’ve parked Evangeline! Recorded from outside under the awning (which they’ve figured out a fix fo…

Janice and Dan and the family go to hike Devil’s Tower this morning, along with thousands of bikers. Maybe they thought there were a lot of bikes here yesterday, but today is a rally day down here an…

The trailer is parked in the shadow of Devil’s Tower National Monument, so of course Janice just got back from watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind with the 13-year-old outside. In fact, this …

The exhausted crew packed up from Yellowstone and drove all the way to… Billings, Montana. OK, it was less than two hours away but that was all they had in them. Plus there were errands to run and a …