Welcome to my nomad travel blog. I live in my Airstream, sometimes parked off-grid, sometimes in campgrounds, staying for a bit to explore and then moving on.
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I can’t believe that makes sense right now. Bear with me. Tracy’s been working like crazy on the hitch: he shipped a big part back to Michigan, they serviced it and shipped it back to us, then they shipped new parts to us. He’s been machine-sanding old parts, painting them, …
I think about this a lot. What traits do we full-timers share? I think I’ve finally nailed it: we share a lack of strong ties. Call it non-attachment, if you’d like. Either willingly or unwillingly, we no longer have connections to nearby family, to a special home, to long-standing family …
We have semi-progress with the hitch, which is better than pseudo-progress and definitely better than a hitch in the hitch. The hitch company in Michigan is servicing the crucial bearing part of the old hitch, and Tracy has ordered new parts from them, so with the old parts and the …
I’m working hard here to figure out how to say something about myself in the midst of the crisis our country and our world is in. I’ve written two complete posts this week and then deleted them for being petty compared to what I’m reading in the news and hearing …
(Here’s a post unrelated to travel. The end is where I caption the above photo, which is the point of this post.) You know how one small thing someone says can amazingly ring true. Even if you’ve read about this thing a ton or you know about it theoretically, or …
More recent posts (click here)
- The Hitch Is Now the Toilet
- Lifestyles of the Rebellious and Unattached
- Singer-Songwriter Smackdown While in Limbo
- Exactly Five Years on the Road!
- A Koan for Writing
- Hitch Quasi-Update and How Wild It Is that RVers Live in Different Ways
- Sitting Here in Limbo
- My Tea Set Regrets
- The Hitch in Our Plans Is Our Hitch
- Pulling Off an Airstream Surprise
- On the Road Again, But in a Hotel
- A Friday Night Rodeo, Moving Crystals in My Head, Tricky Houston Plans
- Our 2025 Travel Plans (Kinda)
- Encounters with Neighbors
- Prepping for the Road
- Blue Fabric Tiny House
- You Might Be a Full-timing Airstreamer If …
- Dreaming of My Kind of Boondocking
- The Feel of India in the RGV
- How to Take a Campground Shower in 10 Easy Steps
- For Us Winter Texans
- On Grief, Nonattachment, and Beauty
- The Nomad Witching Hour Is Upon Us
- How Many Stories Can We Tell?
- Tangled up in Lyrics
- Surprises from Life on the Road
- Merry Christmas, from Warmth and Sunshine!
- Pre-Christmas in Brownsville, with Mangos and Beer
- Medical Mystery Tour Wiki
- On Hearing the Palm Fronds Rustle
- Still Catching Our Collective Breath
- Friends at the Heart of 2024
- Rest, Hydrate, Recoup, Repeat
- Our Impossible 11-hour Travel Day
- Wherein We Act Out Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
- On the Beach, the Crowded, Chilly, Still-It’s-a-Beach Beach
- Crowded Beach Spots vs. Empty Campground
- Get Your Banjo Wall Calendar Here
- Neither Fire Ants nor Boy Scouts Stays These Campers from Enjoying the Beach
- Where Salt Marsh Meets the Sea
Places
I used to keep up a travel map here with little color-coded icons that linked to blog posts I’d written from each place. The map got crowded and impractical after a while, so I’m now categorizing places as a way to indicate where we’ve been. National parks are such an …
Here a post from each state that 1) we’ve camped in and that 2) I’ve blogged about, at least as far as I can remember. Note: I tried not to include national parks, since they have their own page; ditto with Alaska, which I know is a state (page coming) …
Photos
Other
Creating tiny houses from kits is a hobby I started in the Airstream because it’s small and quiet (so I can do it at night while I’m awake and Tracy’s asleep). I am now obsessed. Quick View of All Here’s a slideshow of nearly all the Tiny Houses I’ve made …
This is a series of personal posts about grief and family, by me and my guest writers. Some of these were very very hard to write, and friends tell me they’re hard to read. Others I wrote real quick-like, mainly to fill in gaps in my life and to reveal …
I’m fortunate to include frequent writers other than myself, occasional guest submissions, and sets of links to other blogs that are relevant to mine. Here are the regular contributors: Shana and Marcus Click here for all of Shana and Marcus’ posts. We are a post-pandemic retired duo who decided society …
