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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The bone jam I’m taking about is from the Jurassic period, when this specific area in Utah was wet (attracting dinosaurs), then dry (killing dinosaurs), then wet again, at which point a river flowed through, washing a whole lotta bones into this small canyon, where they got caught in the …
I saw this graffiti on a bench above Angel Peak badlands in New Mexico, and I’m trying, random person with a magic marker defacing public property, I’m trying. Islands in the Sky at Canyonlands I struggle with sensory burnout when we see so much so often. I’m not complaining, but …
Canyonlands is a big national park in southern Utah that we’re tackling in sections; we’re camped near the south section now and we’ll move to the north section tomorrow. It’s got a lot of interesting rock formations, petroglyphs and pictograms, but—big deal to us now—a lot of green. It’s been …
More recent posts (click here)
- Campground Surprises at Dino
- Bone Jam and Ram Jam at Dinosaur National Monument
- Trying to Stay Amazed in Utah
- Arches, Moab, People
- Seeing Green in Canyonlands Nat. Park
- Life in the Valley of the Gods
- Goodbye for Now, New Mexico
- Chaco Culture
- Friendships on the Road
- What National Monuments Preserve
- When Housekeeping Is the Barrier-Breaker
- El Morro and El Malpais
- Western New Mexico via BLM Land
- Camping and Hiking along the Gila River
- “Cliff” Being the Operative Word in Gila Cliff Dwellings
- Life Deep in the Desert
- Moving Sunlight and Changing Focus at White Sands National Park
- Exhausted and Exhilarated
- 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
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. Canada provinces …
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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 …
