Us

We began CrazyUS in the summer of 2002.  Our first web incarnation (and now long gone) was davybeth.com circa 1998. CrazyUS began as a travelblog, the year we bought a VW Campervan and decided to travel for a year with our babies the US and Canada. Since then our babies have become 1 boy and 1 pre-tween, our house is complete and we have managed to leave the continental United States.  I actively blogged until August 2006 when it was imperative that I take a break and help my husband finish building our house. You may still remember my big blogging claim to fame as dooce’s friend. I have often been asked about our friendship over the years. What is there to say? Dooce is amazing and I will always be grateful for the doors she opened for me. I am more grateful, however, for her thoughtfulness and for those crazy times we shared all those years ago.

Alas, in 2006, my blog spontaneously combusted, I needed a huge break from all things BLOG-O-LICIOUS (including my lovely fellow bloggers) and thankfully took five years to catch my breath.

I traded blogging for not living on the streets — a wise choice (Literally. Remember Dave was in the throes of building our lovely home and I needed to be there helping him pick out lighting, for goodness sake).  With several stitches, a broken nose, a broken foot, a Copperhead Snake bite, and nearly losing Kyle in 2011 due to a rare illness (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome), we made it through and have continued traveling the world, making gluten free yummy treats, taking lots of walks, calling drivers Dumb Asses (only me) and laughing our brains out.

And then there is that one thing I cannot seem to get out of my head: Travel . . . wanderlust is in my soul.  I am thinking my trips to Ireland and Deadwood, SD are my favorite adventures. This world is so incredibly cool.

Offline I continue writing and pontificating about this great world we live in. Recently, with my boys settled, my house complete and a suitcase full of stories waiting to tell, I had an itch to try it again and slowly I am doing it again. We started crazy us.com with our travel tales and that is where we begin again (with a little day to day thrown in, of course). Enjoy!