adventure, family, and life on the road.

Welcome to the heart of Roots in the Wild — where I share the stories, adventures, and lessons we collect along the way.

You’ll find everything from family travel and RV life to outdoor adventures, practical resources, motherhood on the move, and the unexpected detours that make the best stories.

Some posts will help you plan your own adventure. Others are simply stories worth telling.

Either way, I’m glad you’re here.

First Time Here?

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Roots in the Wild is part adventure story, part travel resource, and part journal from a life that rarely goes exactly according to plan.

Here you’ll find stories from the road, family adventures, RV life, wild places worth exploring, practical tips we’ve learned along the way, and honest reflections from the seasons in between.

Start wherever you feel pulled — or choose a path below and see where it takes you.

Choose Your Adventure

Roads & Roots

Stories of change, belonging & what the road teaches us

Motherhood in Motion

Parenting, traveling & raising a little adventurer

Wild & Wandering

Hikes, wild places & adventures worth taking

Seasons & Self

Reflections on growth, change & becoming

Home on Wheels

Campgrounds, travel days & the realities of a home that moves

From the Journal

Personal notes, life updates & stories from the in-between

Stories from the Wild

One Year In, and Everything Is Changing
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One Year In, and Everything Is Changing

The blog has been quiet, but life hasn’t.

The past few months have held sickness, slow days, big milestones, and more change than we expected. This is a look into February, March, and April—the beginning of a new season—one year into motherhood, and everything shifting at once.

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Rooting Deeper in a Slower Season
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Rooting Deeper in a Slower Season

Winter doesn’t just change the weather — it changes the way everything feels. From inside our home on wheels, watching the gray skies roll in through the window while raising a baby on the road, I’m learning that slowing down isn’t failure — it’s part of the journey, too.

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