We rolled into Mobile, Alabama earlier this evening. We made two stops on the way here to use the restroom (which means we found a safe place to pull over and walked back to our fifth wheel to use our own bathroom - so much better than public restrooms)! Once we got everything setup at […]

This morning we left Tomball, TX for Louisiana. We made it to Lafyette earlier this evening. On our way to I-10 from Tomball, we took a toll highway. The sign read, "$1.50 minimum." As we pulled our rig up to the toll booth, I clarified with the lady, "It's $1.50?" "Oh, no," she said. "You are […]

Souvenirs are generally cheaply made and overpriced. Most of the time, I recommend avoiding gift shops, but every now and again there are times when you see something that would be a perfect gift for someone special. Today, we made a rather long drive (1hr 20mins - one way) to the other side of Houston so that we […]

For two months prior to the Give Every Day launch, I worked on our fifth wheel and truck or some other component of this adventure full-time, nearly all day long. The intensity and duration of the preparation time actually took us a little by surprise. One of the more satisfying projects was replacing our faucets. Stephanie & I […]

Today, we were supposed to tour the Houston Space Center. We had made plans to give to someone on the way into Houston. We had the day all set on our calendars, but in the middle of the night our youngest got a fever (~102+) and then threw up. Children's Tylenol came to the rescue and she was […]

This past two weeks (while we were in the Austin area), we parked our fifth wheel at the La Hacienda RV Resort. Nestled just around the corner from Lake Travis, La Hacienda is positioned in both a beautiful and convenient location (30mins from downtown Austin). The proximity to the water makes La Hacienda ideal for […]

We had dinner with a really great family tonight. You may have heard of them, actually. Kristen of We are THAT Family e-mailed me a little while back to invite us over to sort through donations for Mercy House Kenya, a 501(c)(3) which they run out of their garage. We pulled up and felt immediately […]

The first half of today consisted of scrambling around the fifth wheel, getting things put away so that we could leave Austin and head to Tomball (north of Houston). It takes us awhile to get everything ready to roll. At around 1pm, we all jumped in the truck and drove away. Before we left, we […]

At 2am on every day of the week, a team of food preparers arrives at a gigantic kitchen in downtown Austin and starts preparing hot meals for people all over the city. Meals on Wheels and More seeks to "nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that […]

Today, the four of us met with the staff of Mothers' Milk Bank here in Austin. Their mission as a non-profit is to accept, pasteurize, and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription primarily to premature and ill infants. Premature babies are 6-10x more likely to acquire life-threatening infections. Hospital neonatologists strongly recommend that mothers of premature infants breastfeed […]

Did you know that 60% of people that live in nursing homes never receive visitors? Or that 1 in five adults in Austin can't read well enough to fill out a job application? Neither did I...until today when I met with Patsy Woods Martin, the Founder and Executive Director of "I Live Here, I Give […]

This morning I went to a coffee shop on the northeast side of Austin called Java Dive to get some work done. I needed to catch up on my email inbox and work on a few short videos for upcoming posts. I put "Starbucks" in my GPS but when I showed up at the coffee […]

Shortly before we began Give Every Day, Stephanie and I decided to join Samaritan Ministries. Samaritan Ministries is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Christian organization that helps individual and families care for each other when they have medical needs. Essentially, it's an alternative to health insurance (but it's not insurance - it's health care sharing). You can watch […]

My little sister turns 21 tomorrow. She is smart, sweet, funny, tenderhearted, gorgeous, and one-of-a-kind (oh, and single). I wrote her a birthday card tonight and tucked a small gift card inside. Tomorrow, I'll stick a stamp on it and send it on its way to Colorado. What do you do for birthdays? In our […]

This morning, we hung out in downtown Austin with the homeless. A handful of families convened and brought breakfast foods to an empty parking lot across from a shelter. We served coffee, eggs, bacon, and cereal...out of the back of a pick-up truck. Our 4-year-old handed out homemade oatmeal raisin cookies and bananas. She took […]