The Lundy 5

October 31 in the Lundy home is a celebration times 5: Halloween, Allen's birthday, and all three kids' adoption days ( Josh 2001 and Lizzy & Matt 2005 )! We celebrated with a giant spider cake, well cupcakes, and saved the big news til the end of the day. Yeah, we like to make them squirm. After a day of teasing, begging, and no signs of presents, we finally played a game of hangman. _ _ _ _ ended up being J A C K , which is the dog we left behind (with Allen's sister) six months ago when we hit the road . We told them we were picking up Jack in the morning and he'd stay with us forever and WOW were they excited! We've all missed him, especially the kids, who never stopped talking about him. And yes, it'll be inconvenient at times, but he's family and many of you know our motto: Family Sticks Together . That goes for hikes, bike rides, pictures on our wall , and yes, the dog RVing with us. What a wonderful reunion they had! He definitel...

I'm not sure why we just thought of this, after almost 6 months on the road! But it's a great solution for when we're just parked overnight and don't want to slide. The door to the kid's bottom room and bathroom is blocked when the slide is in so we can't open it. They can crawl down the hatch, but it's pretty inconvenient and risks dropping things behind the slide that could catch when we slide out later. We can also walk around and go in the back door to the bathroom, but again, inconvenient. So Allen took off the door handle so the door could be open, then we slide, and tada! We can slip in and out as needed. It's not pretty, but it's pretty convenient!

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Today's roadschooling lesson was expensive but effective. After someone, I'm not supposed to say who, but it wasn't me , accidentally filled our truck with gas, we got to learn what happens when you put gas in a diesel engine. Hey, it's called life learning, not always-good-life learning. In case you haven't decided to try that yourself, you get towed to a shop, pay them to drain it, and Facebook it before your husband knows what you're doing . Thanks to this Iowa station's deceptively green handled pump, we got this fabulous opportunity. At the service station, they said it happens there weekly. SO not cool. We should have caught it though, we're usually really careful. Fortunately Josh noticed before Allen started the engine. He said hey dad, why does the diesel say regular? Doh! We just wish he'd have caught it before we put $50 of gas in the tank! But at least it was before the whatever-bad-thing-that-would-happen happened in the engine. So...

When we found out we'd miss Trick or Treat in Ohio, the kids were really bummed! But I asked my friend (and DSP Designer) Nicole Young who lives in Des Moines (where we'd be driving through that day) for ideas and there was going to be a big event at Living History Farms ! So the kids could visit the very neat farm, get candy, pop, popcorn, roast marshmallows, and take a wagon ride, AND best yet, Nicole and her family would come too! Lizzy and her daughter Maddie were already fast friends from the day they spent together at the Minneapolis laptop crop, so they were super excited. It's not every day a nomadic family gets to see friends they've made again! So we drove through Iowa, which is much like Ohio, more southern Ohio, except for all the wind turbines. Not sure why Ohio doesn't have them? Lizzy the rocker and Maddie the pirate. Our rock star, Ohio State University graduate (physics major of course), and Army man. Nicole also had a cute little Mari...

I know I overuse the word amazing, but driving through Colorado was amazing! Utah was gorgeous but didn't have the Fall colors like Colorado. Unfortunately after luring us in with it's colors and beauty, it then dumped 2 feet of snow on us! Route 70 was closed for much of the day so we killed some time and let the kids play in the snow. (Again, not the best idea without winter clothes.) So when 70 opened, we assumed it had been cleared, but nope! Trucks all had chains on their tires and we just went slowly and prayed that we didn't end up off the road like many others. Pulling your home over the snow-covered Rockies isn't really a stress-free thing! But we made it and still enjoyed the views. It was like driving through a Thomas Kincaid Christmas village scene! I recommend you do it, but maybe without an RV. I took pictures, of course, but they just can't capture what we saw. Colorado is a state we've always said maybe we could live there. We love mount...