Our story

We emigrated from Zimbabwe (our country of birth) in 1999 with our two teenage sons and settled in the greater Boston area of MA. Our two sons went off to college and are now living in TX and TN. In 2019 we moved to Ft Myers FL and bought a Leisure Unity FX motor home to travel around this beautiful country. Our travel companion is a 13 year old miniature poodle “Bambo”. We named our Motorhome “USHINGI” – a Shona word (one of Zimbabwe’s dialects) for Adventure and Discovery.

We also have a Honda PCX 150 for local travels that we carry on a tow hitch ramp. He is called Umfana (Shona for little boy).

We hope that you enjoy our pictorial record of our travels and it motivates you to spend more time in nature.

twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do…

explore
dream
discover

– Mark Twain

Thanks for joining us.

Bruce and Lynne Mullen

We are in Arizona trying to rework our route since Yosemite extended its shutdown and sent us a cancellation. Also seems likely that Oregon coast is a no go so Utah and Arizona look promising until Yellowstone on Jun 28.

We have one remaining reservation on the Oregon Coast so we plan to head West from Utah. Check out the “still epic with Zion” page.

Day 14 – Ten X Campground near South Rim, Grand Canyon. Cell signal fluctuates from 1 to 2 bars. We will upload videos later when we have better bandwidth.

We will create a new page (yet to be named) for updates on our adventure post Zion. Another cancellation has changed our course but we relish the new destination of Lassen Volcanic Park.

“New, unplanned stops” is the fresh page for our next adventures. We continue to get cancellation notices along the Oregon Coast, even for those reservations that opened up in the last week. We will remain nimble and avoid the hotspots (Covid and riots) ☹️

Lassen was fantastic (who needs Yosemite). We are at Klamath River, next to Redwoods National Park, until Monday. Just posted Lassen photos, will do Redwoods when we have stronger cell/WiFi.

The Oregon coast was amazing, hard to leave it behind to head inland to Portland. Check out the photos in the “New, Unplanned stops” tab. Now heading North to colder, wetter weather in the Cascades.

We are still in Yellowstone, every drive or ride we discover new and beautiful areas. We used to be the odd couple wearing masks and now we are part of a majority but the crowds are a bit scary here in Yellowstone. We will find some longer hikes to stay away from the July 4th crowds. Check out some of the stunning views on the “Unplanned stops” page. Stay safe everyone.

I have started a new page, aptly named Badlands and Back. We are headed to the Badlands for a few days and then we make our way home via Nashville (to see our youngest son Greg). There isn’t much cell service in the Badlands National Park so I will update the blog in a few days.

Day 70 today – our trip is coming to an end soon, time to prepare ourselves for re-entry, it will be strange not to be on the move for a while.

Day 77 – today we head for home with mixed emotions. We hope y’all enjoyed the blog. We look forward to our next adventure.