by Kristin Echols | Jan 12, 2018 | Moving
When you live in a house for years, there are just some things you start overlooking…the missing tile in the corner of the bathroom; the hole in the closet for the CAT 5 cable you installed pre-wifi; that overgrown corner of the yard that no one sees; the unpermitted...
by Kristin Echols | Jan 11, 2018 | Moving
I completely underestimated what a huge undertaking moving would be. We have lived in our current 4-bedroom, 3-bath home for 21 years. We’ve raised three children from school-aged through college. We’ve remodeled, repainted, redesigned and repurposed rooms many...
by Kristin Echols | Nov 12, 2017 | House Hunting, Moving
After three rainy days on our Washington-Idaho house hunting adventure, I was convinced it wasn’t going to happen. Many houses and properties checked off a few of the boxes on our wish list, but I need a house that will satisfy the majority of my housing...
by Kristin Echols | Nov 12, 2017 | House Hunting
While we finished up day 3 of house hunting with a couple potentials, I wasn’t getting that excited feeling. Today we headed south of Coeur d’Alene to look at 3 properties. The first two were in Worley, population 257. A quick 20-minute drive from CDA and we were in a...
by Kristin Echols | Nov 11, 2017 | House Hunting, Moving
We drove from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene this morning and entered Idaho for the first time in both our lives. Right away we both thought Idaho was prettier than Washington. We met our Idaho realtor Tony and his wife Alicia and headed out to look at five properties...
by Kristin Echols | Nov 10, 2017 | House Hunting, Moving
Today we ventured north of Spokane to Colville, Chewelah, Deer Park and Chattaroy to look at five properties. It was definitely more scenic as there were more trees. Temps were in the 37-44 range and there was still snow on the ground for the first few houses. House...
by Kristin Echols | Nov 9, 2017 | House Hunting, Moving
We are in search of the perfect home for retirement and have decided to look in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. We’re looking for some land, about 20 acres, with a combination of timber and flat land for a bit of farming. I’d like a house with views of this...
by Kristin Echols | Oct 13, 2017 | Travel
We woke up in Oregon, but we are going to sleep in California. The change from Oregon to California seemed drastic on I-5. The pine trees turned to oak trees and scrubby bushes, the ground from green to brown, the sky from gray to blue, the temperature from cold and...
by Kristin Echols | Oct 12, 2017 | Travel
It was so cold when we woke up this morning. It was raining and the thermometer in the trailer said it was 44 degrees outside. Shawn donned his new rain gear to pack up the trailer and we left Yoncalla in search of drier climes. At some point in the two-hour drive,...
by Kristin Echols | Oct 11, 2017 | Travel
Since it didn’t make sense to sit in the RV while it rained for another day, we decided to keep driving south. Our next planned stop is Ashland, but that is a 4 ½ hour drive from Silver Falls, so we broke it up by finding an RV campground south of Eugene. On the drive...
