Welcome to my blog titled “Five Things” where you can expect just that - five random musings or reflections from the previous week or so. In addition, at the end of the blog, I’ll keep a running itinerary of our travel plans. For a photo gallery of our life on the road, our pets, and miscellaneous things I find interesting, you can follow me on Instagram @tabithalord.

So here are this week’s five things…

1. It’s August already! We’ve been living this nomad life for eight months now, which seems crazy. When we left RI, we’d mapped out our journey pretty specifically through September, and then loosely through the holidays. Now, we’re booking stuff into 2024. Time sure does fly, but we’ve also done so much in the last several months that I’m glad I took so many pictures or else I don’t think we’d remember it all!

2. We haven’t had a truly embarrassing maintenance moment since I accidentally pulled the slides in without shutting the closet doors and crunched them right off the hinges. Well, our new RV has a central vacuum system that hasn’t worked since we bought the rig – or so we thought. Last week, we found an onsite technician who happened to be staying at the same park as us and asked him to come look at it. After checking out the whole mechanism, he finally gave me the vacuum handle and said, “You turn it on right here.” Ahhhh…..

3. We’re here in southern Wyoming for a couple of nights before heading back into Utah. While we explored Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake and spent time in Salt Lake City during our first visit to Utah, we didn’t get to any of the National Parks. We’ve been so impressed with every park so far, we can’t wait to experience Zion!

4. On the writing front… I’m taking a break from drafting my fantasy novel The Dragon Dancer of Krysh. For the next few months, I’ll be turning my attention to Maggie Clare, my alter ego, and the romantic suspense series I promised readers I’d finish. It’s been too long since the last book, and I need to get back to it. Dreamwalker is still on submission, which is a time-consuming, daunting process, almost as challenging as finding an agent, but I’m still hopeful there’s a good deal on the horizon!

5. I have become slightly obsessed with Wordle. I actually like it when I have to sweat it out a bit. It keeps my brain sharp!

“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

Our itinerary subject to change:

July 22 - August 5: Jackson, WY

August 5-10: Rock Springs, WY

August 10-18: Hurricane, UT

August 18-27: Palm Springs, CA

August 27 - September 5: Temecula, CA

September 5 - October 1: Santa Barbara, CA

October 1 - 9: San Francisco, CA

October 9 - 30: Portland, OR

October 30 - November 12: Seattle, WA

November 12 - 19: Travel to Orange, CA

January 3, 2024: Orangeland Park, CA

January 3 - 14: Oceanside, CA

January 19 - February 2: Las Vegas, NV

February 2 - 9: Flagstaff, AZ

February 9 - 23: Phoenix, AZ

February 23 - March 8: Tuscon, AZ