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We’re Alex and Lara Lill, a 24-7/365 couple, focused on learning, building and teaching A Simple Life With Big Adventures!
After traveling in our 1978 VW Bus for over 2+ years, life led us to a 1961 GM Bus in the New Mexico desert. We’re now converting it into a home on wheels!
Come along with us, as we educate ourselves and share alternative views on life, love, energy, food and travel.
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BEET APPLE ONION PARSLEY VINEGAR WALNUT SALAD RECIPE
Beets are an excellent source of fiber, magnesium, vitamin C and phytonutrients. We often put them (and the beet greens) into smoothies, but our favorite way to eat them is when they are chilled. When we first visited Colorado, we found a wonderful health food store...
read moreTRAVELING CAT – CROSS COUNTRY IN A VW BUS
It’s not often you see a cat on a leash, or sticking it’s head out of a window going 55mph up the freeway in a 1978 VW bus, but for Squishy Cat, it’s just part of life. Ever since Squishy walked up to us that fateful day in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, he has lived...
read moreHOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE LAVENDER OIL
Lavender has long been used for the delightful aroma it puts off and for the healing benefits it provides. For instance, lavender oil reduces tension, cleanses the skin, relieves pain and helps soothe the respiratory system. Just breathing in the smell, loosens up our...
read moreCREAMY POTATO BROCCOLI (NO MILK) SOUP RECIPE
The two of us have been enjoying small bites throughout each day, rather than three heavy meals. It keeps our metabolisms going and it allows our bodies to spend less energy digesting food. We’ve come to realize that softening foods and/or blending food down...
read moreZION NATIONAL PARK UTAH TRAVEL VIDEO
One of our finest moments on our cross-country trip was getting back on the road after being hit by a drunk driver in the Arizona desert. It took 24 days of patience and persistence, while we hobbled our VW bus around to be assessed and worked on, but we were finally...
read moreGEORGE WASHINGTON WASN’T THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
While in Arizona, waiting for our VW bus to get fixed, we met two young Native Americans who spoke about energy, their heritage, the importance of their language, their education from the elders and American history, as it’s taught. One of them spoke about...
read moreALOE VERA COCONUT FACE + BODY GEL RECIPE
The two of us do our best to stay away from store bought lotions, creams and gels. They are usually full of unhealthy chemicals and they usually cost a pretty penny. We have instead begun playing around with making our very own concoctions, starting with a homemade...
read moreORZO PASTA SALAD RECIPE
While on our travels, we came across an amazing treat: Orzo. Orzo is a short-cut pasta, which looks like big rice grains. We were unfamiliar with this type of pasta and when we tried it at a little deli, we were blown away. The delicious salad-like mixture contained...
read moreWHAT ARE ARTIFICIAL COLORS?
More and more food packages in the U.S. are carrying a label stating “No Artificial Colors” and there’s a good reason why. Artificial colors have been widely used as a marketing tool to sell brightly colored junk food, candy, medicine and cosmetics,...
read moreLAKE POWELL ARIZONA + LONE ROCK UTAH TRAVEL VIDEO
After a close call in the Arizona desert, the two of us, our dog and cat were stuck in a tow yard for three days and nights over Memorial Day weekend. Once our VW bus was able to drive again, we headed to Page, Arizona for more essential repairs, our 8 year wedding...
read more5 MINUTES BEFORE SLEEPING
The subconscious mind works through our thoughts and feelings and drives many of our actions and behaviors. It is particularly active in times like sleeping, which is why the last 5 minutes before falling asleep are so important. Oftentimes, we’ll go over (and...
read moreCHEWING SMOOTHIES
While learning more about what we eat and how we eat, we found out that chewing our smoothies (rather than just gulping them down) prompts our bodies to release pre-digestive enzymes. The chewing process begins breaking down food with enzymes in our saliva, making it...
read morePIPPI LONGSTOCKING
Pippi Longstocking (also known as Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking) is a fictional character, who was dreamed up in the 1940’s by Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren. Her stories of Pippi have been loved by...
read moreVW BUS MIRACLE CRASH & THE MEDICINE MAN
Over winter 2018, the two of us hunkered down in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. We continued our design work and manned the front desk at a 420-friendly inn for a few months to save our pennies and gather what we needed to continue our cross-country adventure. The owner of...
read moreFRESH OFF THE VINE ORGANIC GARDEN GRAPE JUICE
A Colorado friend of ours invited us to harvest organic grapes from his garden, which we had never done before. We picked and picked the beautiful little grapes right off the vine, until we had gathered two bowls full of them. The grapes were a tad overripe, so we...
read moreFLOATING ISLANDS WALL MURAL TIME-LAPSE VIDEO
While we were in Colorado, we worked with a 420-friendly inn. We helped them revamp their website, helped man the front-desk and we learned a lot in the process. Out of everything we did, our favorite project that we worked on, was painting a huge mural on a bare wall...
read moreHOW TO GREASE FRONT-END ZERKS ON A VW BUS
The front-end of our VW Bus had never gotten any attention since we picked him up. Every 3,000 miles the front-end zerks, or grease fittings, should be fitted with a grease gun and pumped full of fresh grease. This was our first try at front-end zerk maintenance on...
read moreSURVIVAL INTO THE 21ST CENTURY | PLANETARY HEALERS MANUAL
The two of us came across a fabulous book that spoke to us. “Surviving Into The 21st Century – Planetary Healers Manual”, by Viktoras Kulainskas, focuses on Love, Consciousness, Body Ecology, Spiritual Alchemy and Physical Survival. In the very first...
read moreMESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK TRAVEL VIDEO
When the two of us began our cross-country trip in our VW bus in South Carolina, we had no idea what was ahead or how far we would go. We could never have expected to welcome a kitten into our family, make it to our birthplace, land in Roswell for their annual UFO...
read moreSIMPLE VANILLA AMARETTI COOKIE RECIPE
Amaretti cookies are one of our favorite treats. We used to get them from a bakery in Pagosa Springs, Colorado and now we make our very own version. The base of our cookie is still almond flour, but instead of using almond extract, we like to use vanilla bean or...
read moreLET US ALL UNITE | CHARLIE CHAPLIN SPEECH | A MESSAGE TO HUMANITY
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) was an English actor and director, who became famous for his silent films in the early days of motion picture. Without words, he used body language, wardrobe, props, animals, other actors and a variety of locations to send messages to the...
read moreTHE SCOOP ON POOP
What comes out of us can show us a lot about what’s going on inside of us. The form, texture, firmness and color of our poop all have a tale to tell and we can easily find out if our bodies are correctly digesting food (or not), by checking in on our poo. The...
read moreAVOCADO OIL BENEFITS
We were cruising through the cooking oils section of a grocery store and came across cold-pressed Avocado Oil, a wonderful product we had never heard of. We began using it for cooking and we learned it makes a great salad dressing oil. It has a mellow and buttery...
read moreICE SKATING & SLEDDING | COLORADO WINTER VIDEO
While in Colorado for winter, we made sure to take our time and play in the snow, as much as possible. It had been almost a decade since the two of us even saw snow, so it was very nice to have made wonderful memories with a cross-country skiing picnic and going...
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