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  • Hitched. And now, we roll!

    Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025. DC to Cambridge OH. Well, we did it. We got married! It was a little stressful leading up to the wedding but it all worked out. A big thanks to my parents, my mom in particular for the work that she put in, and to Heather for helping make it all…

  • Day 2: Our first full day

    Cambridge, OH to Columbus, OH Yesterday started outside of Patches’ house with some fetch with Duker Doggins. The space wasn’t enough for the full throw, but it was enough to get the job done. I went into Patches’ house to use the bathroom (the bathroom in the van is emergency-only) and then we hit the…

  • Making our way

    Day 3 – Columbus, OH to Higginsville, MO Today we woke up in the Franco family’s driveway. Without much fanfare at all I climbed out of bed and threw my pants on, and we pulled away around 7:30 and hit the road. Time from snoring to driving was around 90 seconds. As we drove I…

  • Across Kansas

    Day 4- Higginsville, MO to Denver, CO Today we woke up at Acadian Moon which was the winery in MO. The early morning scene on the lake was fantastic and Duke got some great fetch in while Bre did some much needed tidying in the van. We finally hit the pavement around 7:45 and continued…

  • A day in Denver

    Day 5 – Denver, CO to Breckenridge, CO We woke up outside of Tyler’s house and went inside to greet him for the morning. For some reason its always fun to spend time with a friend in the morning of a work day, maybe because its so rare that we are hanging out with friends…

  • A nice weekend in Breckenridge

    Days 5/6 – Breckenridge, CO We woke up at Bean’s house on Saturday morning. Bre made some breakfast sandwiches and we cleaned out the van and started some laundry while Bean hit the slopes for a couple morning runs. Jenny is out of town visiting her folks for thanksgiving so we didn’t get to see…

  • Days 8,9 – From Colorado to Oregon

    Having made the necessary preparations for the necessary preparations for departing first thing Monday morning, and seeing as we are mostly adjusted-still to the eastern time zone, we woke up and said our goodbyes to Bean, and had wheels on pavement leaving Breckenridge before 7:30 am. We drove out of Breckenridge, and on our way…

  • Pendleton to Bremerton

    We woke up at our wonderful parking spot overlooking Pendleton, Oregon. We have been using an app Called iOverlander which offers a variety of tools for RV travelers, the relevant one in this case being it’s crowdsourced directory of vetted and commented-on sleeping spots, overtly sanctioned or otherwise. In this case the app led us…

  • Thanksgiving

    Bremerton, WA Thursday morning we woke up at our hotel. The hotel is charming. It is clean and seems entirely unchanged from the 1970s. Complete with a shag carpet, some kind of infrared bathroom heat lamp and a faux-wood GE mini fridge. As is tradition, we stopped for a coffee and took Duke to a…

  • Portland, Bend, and our first adversity

    Things have been getting little hectic and moving a bit too quickly on hitched and rolling so this post is going to be a little different. We are doing a speed round today, cramming a few days into one post so that I can move on and be caught up. We woke up at the…

  • After Bend

    I’m sorry everyone. We have been having fun and moving a lot and I’ve been working and I’m full of excuses but I have been neglecting this blog a bit. Here goes nothing. After Bend we headed back to the coast. We ended up in a town called Florence, OR and we stayed at a…

  • Crescent City to Sonoma

    Waking up in the Jedediah Smith wilderness outside of Crescent City, we were now officially in California. We woke at an RV park along the Smith River which truly is a beauty. After a morning fetch routine, breakfast at a little diner, and stopping on a couple bridges to look into the glassy blue clear…

  • Sonoma to San Francisco

    Waking up in Sonoma was cool. I have never been to “wine country” before and as we came down off the mountain it was very foggy, but we could see the vineyards that we had unknowingly driven past the night before. After Bre tided up the van and Duke and I had our regularly scheduled…

  • San Francisco to Carmel

    We woke up in San Francisco in somewhat less than spritely fashion and took an uber (with a driver) to a little diner for breakfast and a Bloody Mary to help soften the landing. It didn’t really work. We went back to the hotel, showered, and took another uber to go pick up the car…

  • Guest Post – Grant Raffel

    December 5 and 6 By Grant Raffel  I was honored to be a part of the one and only Hitched and Rolling Tour, and even more so to contribute a guest post to the blog. So here it goes. The van got a predictably late start after a big night out in San Francisco but eventually made…

  • Vinyl Vineyards

    As much as we enjoyed our time in Carmel it was time to put the oceanside town in the rear view mirror.  But before we could do that we had an errand to do. Namely laundry. Bre took command of the laundry situation, as there was a coin operated laundromat just a block and a…

  • Day 21 – Towards Santa Barbra

    We woke up at vinyl vineyards and did a sweep to ensure that everything was orderly (the campsite rule: leave it better than you found it) before getting back on the road. We went into downtown Paso Robles where Bre and Grant grabbed some coffee and pastries and we walked around. Paso has some cool…

  • Universal Studios (LA)

    This morning we woke up on a quiet neighborhood street in Santa Monica. Sleeping in a residential area is not prohibited per se, but it’s not comfortable either, because there is always a feeling that someone might knock on the window and ask what you are doing. It feels.. frowned upon, and therefore is not…

  • San Diego

    We got into San Diego in the afternoon and met up with Laura (Bre’s friend, a nurse, known as sweet Laura because she is one of the sweetest people we know). We went to a beach called dog beach and I have never seen a place more aptly named. There must have been 30 dogs…

  • Arizona (Heading East)

    Leaving San Diego’s beach and surf we entered into a fog dense enough such that everyone had their hazard lights on. We crawled along at half pace following signs for i8 and eventually and found our way there, only to find the fog abruptly clear which revealed a phenomenon totally foreign to us: the sun…

  • Austin, Texas

    As I ended the last post, Hitched and Rolling is mostly about people. No place is a better example of that than Austin, Texas. I used to live in Austin so I know a few people here, and seeing them, catching up, and spending time was pretty much the top priority for this stop.  We…

  • New Orleans, Louisiana

    We left Austin at 8am Friday morning and drove pretty much all day. The main event of the days drive was stopping at Buc-ees for some fresh beef jerky.  We were lucky enough to find a dog sitter in the suburb of Metairie who was also willing to host the van in her driveway for…

  • The Mississippi Gulf Coast

    This morning we woke up in New Orleans. Pleasantly, we were more well hydrated and rested than one might expect. Claire’s credit card provided a hospitality stipend at the hotel restaurant which Claire generously shared with us honeymooners in the form of breakfast. A couple showers and a packed bag or two later we were…