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To see photos of the Flaming Gorge, Wyoming area, please click on the link below: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219792119129515&id=1115421580&sfnsn=mo We stayed at one of the campgrounds directly at the water. The water is cold and there's a lot of it! You will find beautiful scenery at every corner. The landscape is mostly dry desert covered in sage.  The sunsets and sunrises are phenomenal, if you enjoy taking pictures as much as I do! The two towns nearby, Rock Springs and Green River offer shopping for all of your camping/food needs but beyond that, we found that they are boring.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219762401586595&id=1115421580&sfnsn=mo While we actually didn't see that much of Salt Lake City I cannot go without mentioning and highly recommending Antelope Island State Park.  As of Sept. 2019 we paid $ 10 to enter the park (fee is per car for up to 8 people; no military discount). The park is huge with what seems endless roads to see all areas of the park.  There's plenty of trails for hikes, lookouts and even camping. There's also a fast food sit down restaurant and the food is good. Don't forget to bring your camera and a jacket and good walking shoes! Now in the city there's a food cart you don't want to overlook as it has great and authentic Mexican food! Look for it at the corner of 800th S. and State street. Wether you agree with the Mormon beliefs or not, another place we can highly recommend is the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake.  While you can not tour the inside of the go...

By July. 31st we finished the last “must do “ items in order to start our new travel adventure  in the 5th wheel. Did we get everything done as planned? Hell no. Reality sunk in that we’ll just have to take some unfinished projects on the road with us. We felt a bit defeated that all of our hard work and planning for the big day didn't work out 100%. But after the realization about where we were with all final touches that couldn't get done, Joe prepared himself accordingly. He had kept a handful of necessary equipment  and tools that he felt were important to have for small projects and repairs. The list includes:  Sets of pliers, sockets, drill, saws, saw horses, pancake air compressor, pressure washer, small amounts of varies hardware, lubricants. The weekend before Aug. 1st, our official departure day, we had an open house, or trailer warming party. We wanted to show our friends and neighbors our labor of love and have a chance to see familiar fac...

Here are some pictures of the changes we've made to the trailer: The speckled walls needed paint.  We used paint and primer all on one. Everything needed 2 layers to get good coverage. The bedroom slide area got painted as well.  Here are the before and after pictures: The shower in it’s original brass color. The shower after Joe “aged” it with a 120 grit foam pad sander and thinned down black paint with mineral spirits. He brushed it on with a coarse paint brush. The bathroom walls when we started painting them white to lighten up the room with the goal of a barn look. My friend had some older fence wood that we repurposed by white washing it and then adding a brushed on splash of accent colors Before we removed the old sink with faucet and painted the bathroom cabinets white: The new bathroom sink: The bathroom floors used to have beige carpet. We removed it and then Joe repurposed some ol...

We surround ourselves with beautiful things that make our home special, unique to us and our personalities,  lifestyles and quirks. The look of our home represents us and who we are and how we want the world to see us, at least on the surface. Enter the process of letting go. You know you're not gonna fit all your collections,  big or small, into your trailer. This means you must let go of an entire lifestyle.  But it's a choice. Joe and I made this choice willingly. Our then home was big. 6 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms.  A corner lot that required a lot of upkeep. Lots of stairs. It seemed all we did all the time was vacuum, dust and mop. We were tired of cleaning all the time, fixing things and everything that goes along with 2500 square feet. We were tired of all the stuff we had surrounded ourselves with all these years that we thought we needed at one point or another. Things take up space and they take time from us and for us they became a burden...

 3 Estate sales...  ...and we still had stuff  The house a few days before we moved out. What was left and couldn't get sold went the Goodwill. ........................................ And what a long process this was. We started selling things around Christmas time last year. 8 months prior to our grand move in or should I say move out. Depends how you see it.  We'd sell our Christmas decor before Christmas, Easter decor before Easter..., well you get the idea. Each holiday we ended up having no decorations, because in order to fit into our tiny home we had to shed a lot of stuff! And the best time to sell holiday decor is most certainly BEFORE the said holiday. While Joe had his work cut out for him doing most of the harder physical labor on the trailer and slaving away, I was in charge of the online selling job. Most of our "larger items" I would sell on local sites , such as Facebook Marketplace,  OfferUp and Letgo. I even en...