JC McDowell and the Family Unit

I’m talking about schlepping.  That’s what the mobile life is ultimately all about.  We’ve been rolling stones since late 2008 after the birth of our youngest, Charley, who just celebrated her third birthday.  Even when we live on the boat in the Sea of Cortez we are still mobile,  sailing around the Sea and down [read more...]

We wrapped three weeks worth of marketing for the Young Guns Wild West Fun Park traveling through Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota.  In total we added another 3,000 miles to our trusty Sprinter!  We’re happy to be back in Jackson Hole to spend Thanksgiving with friends here. We’re housesitting and taking care of [read more...]

The convention in Denver to market Young Guns Wild West Fun Park went well and we think we will book 2-4 events from this short two days tradeshow.  By the end of the tradeshow, all four of us are feeling rotten.  I think it started in Maryland (kids preschool) and the plane ride certainly didn’t [read more...]

We’re leaving on a jet plane tomorrow for Denver.  We’ve spent the last two months in Gaithersburg,Maryland at my Mom’s apartment.  We put the kids in preschool so Hil could work on recuperating from her 2 bulging discs and I focus on the mess of paperwork that accrued since last year.  We took a little [read more...]

I know we don’t have the picture perfect “Leave it to Beaver” American family lifestyle.  We don’t have a “brick and mortar” residence, we don’t have traditional careers, we don’t have ANY savings or investments.  We get an earful of flack about once a year from certain family members that just don’t understand WHY we [read more...]

It’s been a busy two months on the road. Hil and I each worked 4 fairs and we were supposed to be able to work the last fair together in Hamilton, Mt. Unfortunately, Hil hurt her back in Douglas, Wy at the Wyoming State Fair on the last day. She’s been in [read more...]

We are almost to Bozeman for our first fair of the summer! Both our vehicles have been running great towing the trailers. We are currently stuck in traffic due to an accident ahead at the first peak enroute to West Yellowstone on I-20.

We still have 3 more hours to go to make Bozeman [read more...]

We are wrapping up the packing and prepping for our summer tour. Everything is a wreck around my Dad’s house as we sort/pack/unpack/repack trying to prepare for ALL possible contingencies. This is one of the hard parts of being a Gypsy. Who knows where you might be when winter strikes and the [read more...]

Are you interested in quitting the rat race? Do you want to spend more time with friends and family instead of inside an office cubicle? Has your 40 hour work week turned into a 60 plus hour work week at the same salary? Interested in travel and adventure that just can’t be [read more...]