May 17, 2013

Meeting the “Trips”, Take 2

Getting Reacquainted

We met the Trips the first time in Usery Mountain Regional Park where we camp hosted for a long time. After that first meeting, we have been wanting to get together with them again. Finally, we have. We met up at Cabrillo National Monument. Harrison and Gary walked together, sometimes behind our group, sometimes in front, but never in the middle, I noticed. I walked in the middle with Kimberly…   Read More >>

May 15, 2013

Queen Califia’s Magical Circle

Mike caught in the maze

Recently we were invited to join several other full-time traveling families for an evening of meeting and eating. Since our home-base was an hour away, we decided to leave early and make a couple of stops along the way. One of those stops was at the Kit Carson Park in Escondido to check out this Roadside America attraction. Queen Califia’s Magical Circle is one of the last works of French…   Read More >>

May 13, 2013

Grandma and Grandpa ‘A’

Grandma and Grandpa A visiting in San Diego

My Mother’s Mother She’s my mother’s mother She only had sisters, not one brother And when my mother had a little girl My mother’s mother gave her a whirl My mother’s mother makes root beer floats And the ice cream bobs up top like a little boat My mother’s mother sends Christmas across seven states My mother’s mother uses colored bowls and pretty colored plates My mother’s mother trusts entirely…   Read More >>

May 13, 2013

Grandparents and the Olympic Training Center

The Chula Vista Olympic Training Facility

It was something the entire family had been looking forward to for weeks, ever since we learned about it while still in Arizona. Grandma and Grandpa “A” were flying out to San Diego to visit us! The park we chose was Pio Pico, a Thousand Trails park east of San Diego. Because of the location, we had as close to zero phone coverage we could without actually hitting zero. Luckily,…   Read More >>

May 8, 2013

Border Field State Park

Border Field State Park Entrance

This one was all me. No one else was really excited about going here but I made them come anyway. Back on our first-year of traveling we visited Cape Flattery, the NW corner of the USA. You can go more north, but not be as far west. You can go more west, but not be as far north. Border Field State Park is a bit like that at the Southern…   Read More >>

Apr 28, 2013

Escape from Suburbia: A Year Later

The adventure continues

One year ago today we dodged incoming contractors hired by the buyer of our house, moving the last things out while they came in with toolboxes and ladders to install up-to-code smoke detectors and replace a back window to ready it as a rental. We pulled the truck across the street into our neighbor / friends driveway, re-installed our bike rack, loaded up bikes, and then asked one of the…   Read More >>

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Da Boyinks!

Howdy! We are the Boyinks - a family of four who left Holland, Michigan for a one-year family roadtrip around the USA and ended up with a new life. We sold our house, gave away most of our stuff, and are now full-time 'technomads' - traveling while still working and schooling. Read more about us, view the map of our travels, or read entries from our travel journal.

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