Nomadic Pikes

Hello All Its been a bit since I have posted anything on here.  It's because we haven't been doing too many exciting things!  Our main focus has been hiding from the cold weather.  We have been pretty successful so far (fingers crossed it continues).  We have until the middle of March here in Texas before we head back home for a few weeks (spending time between KS and MO).  We are hoping all the crazy winter weather is gone by then. So what have we been up to and where have we been??  We have been in Southern Texas.  We have been about an hour to an hour and a half from San Antonio and Corpus Christi, in a small oil town.  Derek has been working for a oil pipeline company as a Gate Guard, which means he was working 10-12 hours a day.  So the kids and I got to hang out around the camper and the camp ground all day.  We got very lucky to find a great camp ground where we have met some really good people!  The camp ground Owners are...

November 2018 Conroe Tx was our first stop, that we spent an extended amount of time at, that was not out in the middle of nowhere!  We were about an hour from Downtown Houston.  We ventured into Houston a couple of times to enjoy some of the more common attractions, but spent most of 2 weeks at the campgound hanging out and meeting some new friends!

November 2018 Here is the first time we have had any winter weather.  It was below freezing a couple of nights and rained most of the time we were there.  So we were able to enjoy some family game night fun!

ALL THE TIME So one of our favorite spots to stop (tied with our spot on Table Rock Lake) is back home in Wichita KS.  I have one of the best friends a girl could ask for, that got her boyfriend to put in a 30amp plug for us to use in their drive way!  (Even though we got off to a "shocking" start!)  They have been amazing at letting us stay there many times so far through out our journey.  We all love getting to spend time with them, and the kids love all the cool toys that are around!  The Johnson/Clark Campground.  We give them 5+ stars!

I was reading a post on Facebook the other day where people were talking about Geocaching.  I had not even heard that word in prob 4 years- last time being when one of my associates, at work, filled us in on it because did it all the time.  Some of the people on the post brought up how their kids do it as part of their Homeschooling curriculum, and how much their kids love it.  So... I downloaded the app!  Here around our campground in Jasper, Tx there are a ton!  Today we decided why not go give it a try.  Of course we picked a cold and rainy day, but hey why not?!?! We did 3 super easy ones today and it was pretty cool.  Here are some pictures of the kids (don't mind Derek in the background!).  Coop was not so into it at first because his socks were getting wet, but then he go into it.  Kenzie was super excited!  Now they can't wait to do more.  Next time we will come prepared with items to trade!

So we have been living our new life style for 6 months! (Holy cow). One thing that we read about while prepping for this life style was the people and how incredible most of them are. We have seen this first hand! There have been friendly people in almost every campground that we have been in. In the last 6 months we have talked to people more, that are our neighbors, then we did in the entire 10 years that we have owned homes! (With the exception of 1 great family in Goddard Ks, we miss having them across the street from us!). We have met people from all over the country, ones that are traveling Fulltime and ones that are just trying to camp as much as they can! Our children are very social, talkative kids and everyone we have met have been amazing to them. Several have even went above and beyond. After seeing so much, now days, about all the craziness in the world, it is good to experience some good. It’s good to see that, besides inside our closest circles, there are ...