Best of 2022 Here at GDTR
This year we traveled more, we saw more, and I posted more, so this post is long! Even I was worn out by the time I finished putting it together. So, find a comfy... Read more.
Brownsville Christmas: Traditions and Salad Spinning
I was about to sum up my Christmas Day here in Brownsville, Texas, with a quote from David Sedaris’s short story, “Santaland Diaries,” in which he writes about... Read more.
2022 in Photos
No descriptions, no anecdotes. Just photos. (A long post with all that stuff is to come.) January February March April May June July August September October November... Read more.
Stationary for Three Months
Friends ask what we’re going to do for three whole months in Brownsville, Texas: the longest we will have stayed put since we hit the road. I raise my eyebrows... Read more.
Inauspicious Start to a Promising Winter
We had one hell of an interlude between camping on the beach near Galveston and landing at our winter spot in Brownsville. Going South The plan had been to beach... Read more.
Lazy Beach Bums
I feel like I should post this last time about camping on the beach near Galveston, but I haven’t done anything worth posting about. I hardly have photos. No stories.... Read more.
Beach Camping!
I’ve been watching this style of iconic video for so long, and finally I get to make my version. Okay, so my beach isn’t pristine (and neither is the interior... Read more.
Tabasco Sauce Is a Big Deal
I didn’t know this until we spent a day at the McIlhenny farm and factory and bottling plant, all on an “island” in southern Louisiana. It’s called an island... Read more.
Eating Our Way through Cajun County
We’re wrapping up a week in a small town in south Louisiana called Abbeville, which we picked because we love the little bit of this state we’ve seen on two... Read more.
Unglamorous City Camping
I feel guilty about having written three whole posts about New Orleans and not complaining in any of them. Who is this person blogging and what’d she do with Shelly?... Read more.
Making the Most of Nola
Our week in New Orleans has been beautiful, dirty, loud, wild, yummy, exhausting, colorful, and every other kind of description this unique city might conjure up.... Read more.
The Sazerac House
I’m writing this whole long post about just a couple of hours we spent touring a liquor museum because: Okay, Sazerac is a New Orleans company, and its main product... Read more.
Camping in the French Quarter
This was Tracy’s idea six months ago, and it’s an awesome one: Let’s make Thanksgiving special by spending it in New Orleans. FQRV He booked us a week in an... Read more.
Housekeeping in Texas
In the 2.5 years we’ve been traveling, we’ve stayed in the same place only 3 times (the Airstream lot in Ohio and near Tracy’s people in Iowa). This is the... Read more.
Light Music Bar Tiny House (what?)
Finally, I can say that I truly hated making this Tiny House. I bought the kit because I was excited to have found a bar (the kind you drink in) as a Tiny House,... Read more.
All’s Quiet on Cypress/Black Bayou
Unlike with those last couple of posts, I don’t have a story to tell here. All really is quiet in our little spot of northeast Louisiana. We’re camped at a recreation... Read more.
Exhibit A: An Hour in Arkansas
We’re camped at Lake Chicot State Park, in the southeast corner of Arkansas, right off the Mississippi River. I posted last about kayaking here among the Cypress... Read more.
Kayaking the Largest Oxbow
You probably know this, but I didn’t: an oxbow is a water formation that started as a big curve in a river that got cut off, as in the river took a short cut through... Read more.
Memphis Camping
We’re in a state park south of Memphis called T.O. Fuller, named after a Black politician who worked for the rights of locals here in this rural, seemingly forgotten... Read more.
All the Feels in Memphis
We’ve gone into Memphis three days in a row this week, and it still doesn’t feel like enough. (You know that’s significant coming from me.) The thing is, Memphis... Read more.
Sectional Sofa Tiny House
Here’s a new reason for my latest tiny house to be my favorite: I was able to give it to the enthusiastic state park visitor’s center rep who helped me when... Read more.
Elvis’ Meditation Garden: Shining Like a National Guitar
On our way to Graceland this morning, Tracy and I played Paul’s Simon’s song of the same name, by as many artists as I could find. Each rendition revealed more... Read more.
Glowing Creek Campground
It’s actually called Cedar Creek Campground; Cedar Creek flows into the Cumberland River, northeast of Nashville, through Tennessee. It’s a much more limited... Read more.
Nashville: Where We Suck at Being Tourists
On our way south for the winter, I decided we needed more urban in our lives (the city kind, not Keith, although see below), so I booked us a week in Nashville,... Read more.
Maintaining Friendships on the Road
We are just now off of a social tour. (I like to call any special leg of our on-going trip a “tour,” as if we’d mindfully planned a trip with certain goals.... Read more.
Friendship, Community, and Airstream Obsession
For this final post about the Airstream-only campground we’ve been visiting for the last ten days in Tennessee, I was going to structure my notes around the core... Read more.
Those Chicken Friends Visit the Visitors
I hope my old friends, Susan and Alex, get a kick out of being called, ”My chicken friends,” because that’s how I’ll always think of them on this blog, ever... Read more.
Wash Day, Storm Day, Cousin Day!
We’ve had an eventful couple of days at the Airstream park, TCPC, in Tennessee. (If you missed my previous descriptions of the park, try here and here: then you’ll... Read more.
Laid-back Life at TCPC
A friend asked, ”Why an exclusive Airstream park?” The best way for me to explain (so far, after only three days here at Tennessee Cumberland Plateau Campground),... Read more.
Is It an RV Park or a Neighborhood?
On our way between two major stops—Finn in Michigan and appointments in Texas—we’re visiting our Airstreaming friends, Sherri and Mooch, whom we met two winters... Read more.
