Mermaid & Mountain Goat: Recent Episodes
Peter & Kasey Nightingale
Follow our transition from Sticks and Bricks small business owners to full time travelers. Transitioning from a 6 Bedroom home with a ton of "STUFF" to a 40' RV and a 36' Sailboat. How we make money, how we chose our RV and Boat, how we avoided making our kids (20 somethings) feel abandoned. How we still "Adventurize" while being able to make ends meet.
We got to spend some great time on Lake Conroe thanks to our inflatable boat and our electric Torqeedo outboard motor. Somehow we always end up getting pulled back towards the water. We experience a serious storm and then we do a little casino camping as we head across the Gulf coast heading towards the Florida Keys.
We get to spend some time with a few of our favorite road families in Medina "Lake" TX then spennd some time on the Mexican border getting dental work and new glasses. Oon our way towards Lake Conroe we come upon an amazing surprise waterfront gem near Corpus Christi. FREE waterfront camping in Magnolia Beach, Port Lavaca, TX.
We explore San Antonio, visiting the Alamo and learning more about our history then finish it off Nightingale style with some cocktails on the riverwalk. This episode we are super excited to announce our first pseudo sponsorship deal. Torqeedo the world leader in electric marine power gave us a sweet deal on a 3 hp outboard for our inflatable boat we bring along in our RV. Now we'll get to up the adventure factor quite a bit when staying at waterfront campgrounds.
We spend some time exploring the hot spots of New Orleans and Baton Rogue, including the grave of VooDoo queen Marie Laveau, Pat O'Briens, Fritzels, Cafe Du Monde, numerous jazz clubs and so much more. We give some details on a few locals spots that we earned about while drinking at an RV bar.
We do a detailed run through of things we've bought along the way to make our adventure better. Some were worth it and some weren't. Also a few items on the wish list to level up in the adventure world.
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We're heading from Central FL towards New Orleans. We get to spend an amazing afternoon with some selfless people at a monkey sanctuary and we learn all about Lavender. Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, donate to help some great people helping to fix what some not so great people have done.
We jump from Lazy Days in Tampa to Bradenton and then Wauchula, FL the cucumber capitol of the world. We get to spend a few days with Delaney exploring the peace river while avoiding a couple of alligators and finding a whole bunch of shark teeth. What a great week.
We spend a Non-Traditional Christmas in our Rolling home. We figure out how to deal with a less than ideal Holiday season away from some of the family but still get to have lots of fun at Busch Gardens and Disney Springs. kaseynightingale.norwex.biz
We spend some great time with friends at Lake Allatoona Georgia, go on a nice hike and then have to do another quick plan change due to a Thousand Trails park that was made before they made big rigs. Not to fear the back up plan was a brewery, all is right with the world again.
We go visit family in North Carolina for Thanksgiving and get into some interesting conversations. We're also trying to figure out how best to meld our daily routines of travelling in our house with visiting family.
We're trying to figure out what makes up our perfect spot. We've started narrowing down what makes us happy and we've even gone out of our comfort zone with some nice surprises. Thousand Trails Orlando has been quite an experience and we can't wait to head up to North Carolina for some family time in the mountains.
We spend some more time in NC at Goose Creek RV resort and we make some new friends, have a ton of laughs and then head out to see our Delaney at Duke for a football game. Stay at a few Harvest Hosts and meet a cool Reggae musician, Greg Roy. After we arrive at Thousand Trails largest park Orlando RV resort we find that we need some repairs.
Constant wind and an unhappy pooch lead us to make another change in location. We get back on the paddleboards with Morgan and find another pretty awesome spot in the OBX.
We try to adjust to our slower pace and we become the people who adjust their lives because of their dog.
We get back to adventurizing, visiting the Annapolis boat show, Maryland Renaissance Fair and settling in for a bit at the Virginia Landing Thousand Trails campground on the Chesapeake Bay.
Things don't go to plan and we deal with the death of a family member while trying to prep the RV and work on the boat to head South for the Winter. A few hiccups with our Thousand Trails membership and how difficult modern life can be without internet.
We head to a wedding in RI without any fancy clothes and we have a scary situation on the Tappanzee bridge in NY. We also get to take a slow day in Newport.
We do a run through of the apps we use most often for trip planning as well as talk a bit about some of our Kentucky highlights.
We start the great adventure. We visit Gettysburg, Towson University, Smith Mountain Lake, Guilford College and Duke University. What a great 2 weeks we've had. We also talk a little about our new Thousand Trails membership.
We go into a little detail on Amazon FBA and other income sources you can do from the road.
We discuss how a few small things that we should have been paying attention to turned into bigger problems. They say sailing is doing boat work in exotic locations, RV'ing is doing repairs in almost any location....with roads.
We discuss how we're going about emptying a 6 bedroom farm house and two large barns to make our lives fit into an RV and a sailboat.
We dive a little deeper into why we're pursuing the not so traditional lifestyle of living in an RV and a Sailboat. Do we know it's going to be amazing...no, but we're really excited to find out.
A quick introduction into Who we are and where we came from. We give a little summary about where we came from and why we're setting out on a mobile life. Thanks for listening and coming along on this journey with us!
Testing out our new Zoom Podtrak P4 and Sennheiser E835 Microphone. Never used Audacity audio editing software before so wanted to do a test run with everything.