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About Serene

Former full time RVers, transitioned to homeowners and travelers. We've still got a map to finish! Home is the Phoenix area desert and a small cabin in the White Mountains of Arizona.

Bronco Flamingos on Guard!

We spent the last four days/nights at Dworshack State Park, somewhere we had never been before. We were again in a cyber hole with only the state park Wi-Fi to keep us semi-connected. We had satellite service by just barely … Continue reading

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It is “Ka-me-I” / Kamiah

I thought I knew how to pronounce this town’s name “Ka-me-I”, but Google didn’t understand. Google Maps had no idea what I was talking about until I purposely mispronounced it, Ku-MY-uh. That wasn’t our only technological challenge… We had quite … Continue reading

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The Good, The Bad and the Dirty

The Good – We are currently at a beautiful site on the lake at Winchester State Park.  After a walk around the lake,  I rode my bike into town for a few groceries.   This is really the first time … Continue reading

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We made it! We are full time RVers!

This is our first RV home – Albion #3, Riverside RV Park along the Greenbelt in Boise. May 19 – After a long night of packing and purging we made it to the RV park after dark to find we … Continue reading

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That was fast!

Even though this post has not been fast in coming, the sale of our house was fast!   Less than 48 hours after going “live” on the MLS we had a full price offer.  Yeah!    We have been moving at frantic … Continue reading

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Do you want to buy a nice house?

In the two weeks since the garage sale we have worked non stop to complete our preparations.  We packed the few things that our daughter is  storing at her house.  Randy has done touch-up painting in multiple colors until he … Continue reading

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“Don’t sell my bed!”

This past weekend was the big garage sale.    Randy had sold most of our worthwhile things on Craigslist so most of the items in our garage sale sold for $2 or less.   It was a HUGE amount of work to prep.  … Continue reading

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Craigslist Follies

In the months since we last posted, the best thing that happened was the birth of our grandson!   Grandpa has been babysitting one or two days a week! He has also been trying to empty our house using Craigslist. … Continue reading

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Are you really going to live in that thing?

We have received several question about our RV.  I thought I would give a quick review on how we decided to go with a truck/fifth wheel combination. Like many families, we have been tent camping for a long while.   … Continue reading

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Meet the Matthews

We are Serene and Randy Matthews. We live in Boise, Idaho, but plan to hit the road full-time in the summer of 2014. Serene is a kindergarten teacher and Randy is a retired software engineer.  We have one adult daughter.  She and … Continue reading

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