Heading to the Windy City

Alice's Birthplace We left Cincinnati and headed to Jackson Center, OH, home of the Airstream factory, and Alice's birthplace. We took a tour and learned so much about their production line. Our tour guide has worked at Airstream for 50 years, and been giving tours for the past 30 years. It was so heart warming…

A Taste of Cincinnatti

Urban Adventures We were incredibly impressed with downtown Cincinnatti, the food, the architecture, the city pride, and the things to do. This city has revitalized itself, coming from the most dangerous city in American nearly 10 years ago, to a tourist destination. Findley Park has German heritage and amazing food, from the chocolates to the…

Cincinnati, the Rhodes are Here!

Charging Our Batteries Alice is resting for several days at a beautiful campground within Winton Woods County Park outside of Cincinnati. (Thank you Buchanan's for the recommendation!) The sites are beautiful and spacious and the park has a golf course, water park for younger children and boat rentals. We walked and roller bladed on the…

Coal Miner’s Daughter

We set off our adventure on Saturday a little later than expected with traffic heading through the mountains of Virginia, and then West Virginia. It was slow going. We stopped halfway in Beckley, West Virginia to stretch, grab a bite to eat and have a little adventure. Poncho & Lefty's was a great find, with…

Wheels Up to Cincinatti!

With love and support from our family, friends, and coworkers, we set off on our adventure!  Our first stop is Winton Woods Campground, outside of Cinncinatti. Send Off Love Our family came for an early birthday party for Brady and to give us goodbye hugs,  a sweet sign and hand sewn neck rests. We are…

Prep Steps

Garden Prep We love gardening and in preparing for our trip, we chose to only do a spring garden this year, skipping cucs, squash, corn and melons, so that we could leave the garden tidy and ready for fall planting when we return.  We store our leaves from the fall, along with grass clippings and…

Our Five Week Adventure

Nearly 6,000 miles On July 15th, 2017, we will be heading on our five week adventure! Our strategy is to pick destinations where we can spend three to four days, with the exception of Jackson Hole, which we LOVE, to avoid traveling everyday.  We have no idea how this plan will work out! We spent…

“Her” Backyard Reveal

For Alice's big reveal, we wanted to do a fun photo shoot, in our favorite place, our backyard! We have 5 chickens, Henny, Lucky, Violet Rose, Dandy Lion, and Pepper, who are our "girls."  They each have such different personalities. We had so much fun with this photo shoot. Thank you Lauren Brady Photography for…

Alice was Born

We started our adventure with exploring whether we'd like to build a tiny house or buy a camper.  For us, the Airstream seemed like the best alternative.  So we set out sight unseen and purchased Alice, our '85 Airstream, with the goal of renovating "her" ourselves.  We stripped everything out, including the nearly 20 year…