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The Dudleys on the Today Show

Well, it took many long months but we finally got our interview on the Today Show. Take a look and see what you think. In tough times, one family hits the road Nov. 4: NBC’s Michelle Franzen shares the story of how one family decided to take their life on the road in tough economic times. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/33617138#33617138 Web only: Staying healthy on the road Nov. 4: Dave Dudl… Continue

Added by Dave Dudley on November 4, 2009 at 6:03am — 1 Comment

What we did Last Week

Last week has been pretty awesome. We started the week by seeing some awesome friends(OurLoudFamily.com)! We hung out with them most of the day, and went rock climbing! It was pretty awesome, because our family's hardly ever see each other. They had to leave that night, to get to Lehi. That night, my sisters and I stayed at our grandma's house to hang out with her for a while before we leave. It was pretty awesome! We watched a movie, and then went to sleep. The next day, we all went to Ryan's p… Continue

Added by justice dudley on August 2, 2009 at 9:09am — No Comments

My Birthday Party

Last month I had my birthday party at the Fun Park. We went bowling and played arcade games. I won at bowling. We were going to go roller skating but it was about to close.So we played games. I won some candy. Then we went back to our house. My cake looked like a bowling alley. We shaped bowling pins and balls. We also made a ball return thing. after cake and ice cream I opened my presents. I had a great birthday! Continue

Added by Adriane on July 19, 2009 at 3:06pm — No Comments

Logan, UT

So, for the last 2 weeks or so, we have been staying at a RV park outside South Logan. While we have been here, we haven't done much. When we lived in a real house, we used to come down here every summer, for about 2 or 3 weeks. When we came down, we usually hung out with all of our family that is here. It's always really cool, and we do a lot of stuff! Most of the time, in the middle of our stay, we would always go up to the farm and have a family reunion. We would do a lot of stuff there, like… Continue

Added by justice dudley on July 19, 2009 at 10:23am — No Comments

Fireworks

For the last week or something, we have been selling fireworks! But just like everything, nothing went right. When we arrived, we saw our little black stand just alone in a parking lot. It didn't look that good, but not really bad at all. But then we pulled into the parking lot, and right by our stand, is a storage container for the grocery store. Guess what! It was freshly tagged! That's what scared my mom, because she was afraid our RV being tagged. I thought it would be pretty cool, if it wa… Continue

Added by justice dudley on July 5, 2009 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Timpanogos Cave

We went to Timpanogos Cave National Monument in Lehi,Utah. We went to Lehi to see our friends the Allen's. After we left there house we to hike the mile and a half trail to the cave. Timpanogos Cave had two other caves next to it. Those caves are called Hansen Cave and Middle Cave. The first cave we entered was Hansen Cave. It was pretty small and there was a tiny lake in the cave. Then we went into the Middle Cave. The Middle Cave had a lot of tunnels. My favorite part of the Middle Cave was t… Continue

Added by Adriane on June 28, 2009 at 10:29am — No Comments

Yellowstone

A couple weeks back, during our crazy drive from Washington, we stopped at Yellowstone, to see all of the cool stuff there! We went up through the west entrance, but right before we went in, we stopped in this small little town, and dropped off our trailer. We knew we had an awesome day ahead, and we were eager to get started! So we grabbed our national parks pass, drove our truck to the gate, and got in the park. We drove about a hundred feet, until we saw our first bison! It was really cool, b… Continue

Added by justice dudley on June 28, 2009 at 8:50am — No Comments

Momlogic.com Interview

Joleen was interviewed for MomLogic.com. Check out the interview below. http://www.momlogic.com/2009/06/family_sells_house_and_hits_the_road_rv.php Continue

Added by Dave Dudley on June 25, 2009 at 4:46am — No Comments

To Job or Not Two Job (The Novel)

You ever have good things happen that makes your life harder? Read on my friends to see how confusing my life has been these last two weeks. It is a long read but worth it I think. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This past week I got to watch a short news article about what were called "Hyperactive Moms". Though they talked about moms, they truly talked more about families. Hyperactive Moms is… Continue

Added by Dave Dudley on June 20, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Here's your sign... Part 2

One of the fun things we do along the way is looking at all the weird, outrageous or funny signs as you learned in a previous post. Tom Martin was right! Thanks for responding Tom. Of anyone, I knew you would get it, since you drive that route from home. We saw the sign on I-90 in Montana advertising a local festival. Normally we see things like “Peach Day Festival” or "Pumpkin Festival" or something similar to which makes that town/village unique… I suppose everything else was taken so this wa… Continue

Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on May 27, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

Hidden Wonders in Spokane

Beware, bail out now, don't read this post, especially if you are afraid of odd and weird locations. Wow, it is amazing how fast time flies. I was reminded, very sternly, that it has been several, um, months now since my last blog post. I wondered what happened and realize that Facebook, to which I just recently got back into using, took my online update time that I would normally put into writing a post. And as good as Facebook is at doing immediate posts it still isn't a replacement for our n… Continue

Added by Dave Dudley on May 20, 2009 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Here's your sign...

Your assignment this week is to pick out the sign(s) that we have seen in person (however, the picture(s) may be from another source, as those signs speed down the highways/road quickly!) Good luck and enjoy a good laugh! Answer coming soon..

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Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on May 13, 2009 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

Back in Washington! (Part 1)

A couple of weeks ago, we decided that we prolonged our trip to Washington for way too long! And that is also when we realized that we spent 2 months exploring the bottom half of California!!! So then, we just started driving, trying to get to Washington! After a couple of days of driving, we arrived at crescent city. We looked at our GPS’s map, and it said to take the exit going to Medford, then up to Vancouver. Then we started driving. Right before we got to the exit, we saw a sign that said:… Continue

Added by justice dudley on May 3, 2009 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Where are the Dudleys, Part 2

Thanks to the many of you that responded to my challenge to figure out "Where are the Dudley’s" in a previous blog post. In fact, it was a great way to hear from many of you lurkers from our site, even a few of you called to catch up! I didn't realize how many of you are reading our website! You have rejuvenated me to work harder in keeping this journal up-to-date so you may learn more about our travels or for whatever reason you visit our little bit of cyber space. Hmmm.. Perhaps I will have to… Continue

Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on April 13, 2009 at 5:25pm — No Comments

Guide Dogs for the Blind, San Rafael, California

The whole time we've been in California I have been looking forward to getting to the Bay area so I can visit Aerial and Jeanine at Guide Dogs for the Blind. I met this fantastic duo at Ski for Light (see my previous post) when I was able to volunteer this past February. So last Thursday, Adriane, Jayden and I were able to take a tour of their World headquarters in San Rafael. What an amazing organization. The inde… Continue

Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on April 2, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Sacramento

This last week we went to Sacramento to see the state capitol. The capitol was really cool. It took about 15 yrs to make because there was floods and earthquakes during the building of it. One governor even had to arrive by boat for his inauguration at the capitol! We took a tour and I liked it a lot. We ended at the Governors office. I asked the secretary if I could have a business card and she gave me Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger card! It was really neat.

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Added by Adriane on April 1, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Where are the Dudleys?

Take a look at these pictures and guess where we are... There are hints in the pictures. First right answer gets something fun from me...

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Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on March 29, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

HOLLYWOOD here we come!!

We met up with the DeMichaels, Sloans, Bennetts, and LOUD families in Hollywood. While it was crazy with that large of group we still had a good time. The kids went to see the Jonas Brother’ concert movie at some famous theater (the name escapes me..) We mostly just walked around all the different s… Continue

Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on March 11, 2009 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Auntie April loves her Dudleys

I been reading your posts and catching up with you. Adri, When you come by here again we WILL have that sewing lesson. I am ready for a new machine and I will show you how to use the old one. It's yours now. JJ, your quilt is almost done. I will finish it during spring break (God willing and the creek don't rise).

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Added by april on March 6, 2009 at 8:25am — No Comments

A quick note...

We are currently in the LA Area and have been for some time. Life has been busy traveling with other families, going to Hollywood, fishing in the lakes and enjoying the sun. Be looking for more posts this week, but just wanted everyone to know that we are still traveling this earth of ours. Enjoy some random pictures in the meantime:

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Added by Joleen Widmark Dudley on March 1, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments