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Marlie + Rid = Living the MarRid Life

Aloha! If you came here looking for wedding inspiration, check your spelling... but if you're trying to follow Marlie and Rid's crazy worldwide adventures, you came to the right place!

  • 02 Continents visited
  • 18 Countries visited
  • 198 Days traveling
  • 204 Sights seen
  • 38 Hikes completed

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While the Olympic National Park was pretty smokey and any long distance views were closed off, we were blown away by how gorgeous the Hall of Mosses in the Hoh Rainforest are. For the most part, Olympic was super serene and very ethereal, apart from the Sol Duc Falls trails - that was crazy busy! . . . #Iggly #OlympicNationalPark #HohRainforest #HallofMoss #SolDucFalls #RubyBeach #7thstop #smokenotmist #RVLife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #explore #adventure #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
While it was quite the trouble getting there, Crater Lake you sure were worth it! We still are flabbergasted it is really THAT blue 💙💙💙 . . . #Iggly #CraterLakeNationalPark #WatchTower #PhantomShip #fakebreakdown #6thstop #RVLife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #explore #adventure #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
They'd probably kill us if they knew we told you, but it's worth the risk... Lassen Volcanic National Park is the hidden 💎 of the California National Parks! ✅ Alpine meadows with lakes ✅ Volcanoes ✅ Smelly but colorful geothermal springs ✅ Wildflowers galore ✅ NO CROWDS!!! We don't know why there aren't more people flocking here but the locals love it that way and we agree! Just make sure you come in summer as the road is closed for most of the year due to super heavy snow, unless you're into snowshoeing 😏 . . . #Iggly #LassenVolcanicNationalPark #LassenPeak #BumpassHell #SummitLake #KingsCreek #TJsCarneAsada #5thstop #RVLife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #explore #adventure #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
We saw the California Crown Jewel of the US National Park system and while it was super smokey due to all the wildfires #climatechange, Yosemite still did not disappoint. In all honesty, this place is so magical and breathtaking that you can't help but be awestruck all the time. We hiked the Vernal and Nevada Falls trail and got a glimpse at Half Dome (🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 to be lucky enough to be selected for permits next time), slugged up the dry Yosemite Falls trails (the tallest waterfall in North America), waded and swam through the Merced River, saw a bear cross the road right in front of us on our way to Tuolumne Meadows, and hiked to the stunning alpine lake below Cathedral Peak. So ecstatic we got to finally visit Yosemite together and do so many hikes 😍🗻 . . . #Iggly #Yosemite #MercedRiver #VernalFalls #NevadaFalls #Yosemitefalls #TuolomneMeadows #CathedralLakes #4thstop #RVLife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #explore #adventure #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
Our first encounter with the giants of the Sequoia National Park was incredible! We saw the world's largest tree by volume, the General Sherman, so many giant Sequoia trees, which are actually different from Redwood trees #funfact, climbed to the top of Moro Rock, and hiked to the beautiful Emerald alpine lake via the Watchtower rock formation, and snuck in a quick jaunt around Kings Canyon! The only bummer was all the smoke from the Central Valley fires. . . . #Iggly #Sequioa #KingsCanyon #EmeraldLake #WatchTower #MoroRock #HangingRock #3rdstop #RVLife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #explore #adventure #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
When Rid insists we go to Death Valley since it's "on the way" and it ends up being the hottest recorded temperature in history... 127F at 6.30pm but 130F at its peak 🥵🥵🥵. Luckily we had full hookups so we could sleep in AC and a pool that was open til midnight! Oh yeah, and a bird killed something on our roof so there's now blood splatter everywhere 😂😂😂 Cheers to the adventure, right? . . . #Iggly #deathvalley #hottestdayever #zabrinskiepoint #artistpalette #mesquiteflatsanddunes #badwaterbasin #2ndstop #rvnewbies #vanlife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #traveler #explore #adventure #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
Despite living in SD together for almost 2.5 years we actually never made it to Joshua Tree. Maybe due to Rid’s hated of U2 (remember that album Apple uploaded to your iPhone?!) or maybe because we’re just not really into that dry, arid landscape. Still we both thought it would be great to go visit and test run Iggly on our first adventure together. And because we never do anything by halves of course we’d do it during an NPS extreme weather warning! It was toasty to say the least! But also a lot more beautiful than we anticipated and we had fun doing some short hikes around the park before tackling Ryan Mountain. The sunsets were pretty killer- almost worth it for the sauna-esque interior of Iggly! . . . #Iggly #joshuatree #firststop #rvnewbies #vanlife #USroadtrip #usnationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #traveler #explore #adventure #backpacking #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
As if traveling alone together for 7 months wasn't enough of a trial run of married life, we decided to kick it up a notch with officially 365 days to go 👰🏼🤵🏼 by downsizing to a 24 foot RV! We're happy to introduce our newly renovated 1992 Tioga Arrow named Iggly 😍 While we've spent a lot longer than we thought we'd have to fixing her up, we are so happy with the results and are ready to hit to open road in our first home together ❤️ . Also, HUGE shout out to @tsylican for letting us use his house as our renovation homebase and for all his hard work helping us as well!! The flooring was his baby 🤩 . . . #Iggly #rvnewbies #rvlife #rvliving #USroadtrip #nationalparkstour #tinyhome #worldnomads #travel #traveler #explore #adventure #backpacking #wanderlust #traveladdict #beautifuldestinations #ourplanetdaily #lovetheworld #lonelyplanet #rtw #bucketlist #roundtheworld #natgeo #natgeotravel #themarridlife
📣We’re baaaaaack!📣 . . Finally getting TheMarRidLife back up and running after our enforced Covid-hiatus! We spent our 4.5 months in Hawaii, hanging with family (quarantine in the Kalihi palace with Geoff and @nicollemannion was so fun!), seeing friends (in a socially responsible setting of course) and exploring the beautiful island we call home. We hiked a lot - hit us up for our hiking recs, visited the Big Island for a family fishing trip, spent choke time drinking mai tais and generally tried to help offset the booze calories with exercise! Shout out to @kelisrobertson, @mikerobertson808, and the Steiner family for letting us stay at their home in Volcano; to the Dowsett ohana for their awesomeness, to @hemkishida for graduating her MBA, to @tawni_clark for being an awesome corn hole teammate and to @m_whimsy for helping us rack up a bar tab longer than a CVS receipt at Aloha Brewing! As tedious as a lot of quarantine was (we watched all 8 seasons of Dexter 🤔) we also appreciate how fortunate we are to be able to stay with our family in such a beautiful location. Thank you to them especially for all the drinks, ono grindz and love and laughter, but to everyone else we hung out with too. It wasn’t how we envisioned our trip going but it has led to our next mad cap adventure... buying an RV 🙊 More of that in the next post!!! . . . #themarridlife #hawaii #lockdowninparadise #quarantinelife #luckywelivehawaii #goodgrindzandgreatfriends #fishingwithEII