About “Travel Adventures”
This web site chronicles the Travel Adventures of Lance and Erin Willett. We took to the road in a 21’ RV in July 2006, and now we are traveling across North America in a 34’ RV—living and working from the road. We would like to share our experiences with you: read about our adventures, see our photos, watch our videos, see places we’ve visited, and drop us a line from our contact page.
What’s with the name?
The name fautrever (pronounced “foe-ray-vay”) comes from the French phrase il faut rêver, meaning “you must always dream.” For us it summarizes what we live for: living out our dreams of travel and adventure.
Disclaimer: yes, it’s a made-up word and not good French. Lance majored in French in college and lived in Aix-en-Provence, France during his younger years. C’est le bluff, j’pige quedale à c’qu’il dit, moi…
You RV full-time, right?
We get asked: are you two retired, independently wealthy, or what? While those are each worth a good chuckle, neither is true (yet). Our dream is to explore and travel for a living. While selling our house and taking off in the RV is certainly a good start, we still work full-time from the road (see “Our day job” below).
How long are we going to travel in the RV?
Good question! Probably two years at the minimum, hopefully longer if we still like it after all the miles. So far, so good. Our goal is to visit Alaska, Canada, all the lower 48 states, and Mexico.
Our day job
Erin is a freelance photographer and writer, and also contracts part-time for the Environmental Education Exchange in Tucson. Lance works for Automattic where he designs, edits, tests, and develops themes for WordPress-related projects.
From 2005–2010 we ran simpledream web studio, a web design and development company. The company’s success was the what allowed us to hit the road full-time in 2006. When we started out our RV was equipped with a super-fancy Hughes satellite system so we could connect and work wherever we were. We’ve since upgraded and downsized (both good things in this case) to using mobile broadband, also known as EVDO.
Web design and development
Follow Lance’s development blog simpledream.net (web design and programing, technology, WordPress development, and other web-related topics). You can see stay updated on the recent happenings with WordPress on the WordPress.com news blog.
Photo credits
All of our photos were taken by Erin Willett unless otherwise noted in the description.
Lance’s Corner
Head to Lance’s Corner to read posts by Lance, get a random pun, learn why he’s the whitest Mexican you’ve ever seen.
This site chronicles the Travel Adventures of Lance and Erin Willett. We are traveling across North America in a 
