Blogs authored by 'btower'


  • Behind the Wheel of Our Big Rig

    Posted by  Brooke Tower on Friday, April 25, 2014

    If you would have told me at any point before 2 years ago that I would be able to not only drive a pickup truck, but also tow something that fills our entire driveway, I would have looked at you like you were crazy. I like to think of myself as being open to new possibilities, but because my depth perception while driving isn't always the greatest, I've always been very glad to drive smaller vehicles. In fact, I'm pretty sure if parallel parking had been on my driver's test, I'd still be asking

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  • Our new home on wheels is at our house!!

    Posted by  Brooke Tower on Sunday, April 13, 2014

    April 12, 2014--After months of planning and considering this major purchase, it feels surreal to have an RV in our driveway.  We first saw the Heartland Sundance 3300CK at the Grand Rapids Camper, Travel & RV show in January 2013.  We returned to the show this winter and seeing more trailers and 5th wheels confirmed that we had found the camper that was best for our family for this year-long adventure.

    THE PROCESS:   When we first started looking at campers, we thought we could make it work with

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  • More stuff decisions

    Posted by  Brooke Tower on Monday, March 3, 2014

    "I must have things but things must not have me."--Jill Briscoe

    I think I first heard these words about 20 years ago and my understanding of them has grown with time. There are many, many parts of preparing for this trip--and we are in the process of many of them. Lately, more of my time and energy has been spent on the decisions of what to DO with many of these objects. I had known it would be a large process and had kind of looked forward to an excuse to go through things and simplify, but I ha

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