It took me ten days at the International Airstream Rally (then a long travel day) until finally, as I was walking Banjo this morning here along the reservoir at our next campsite, did I figure out what that rally was all about. It’s true I was dazzled by the Airstreams, especially the old ones remade […]
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Deer Butts, Meet-ups, Hard up in Madison
Talk about pressure. I just walked away from lunch with my blogging mentor, Mark (Mark My Words), who A) told me he’d be blogging about our meet-up in the next few days, which means I’d better get a decent post up in case any of his million followers check me out, and B) showed me […]
Bluegrass, Blue Ridge, Orange Sky, Fireflies
Perfect moment report! Tracy and I were standing on the mountain ridge at this Airstream campground in southwest Virginia, watching the sun set. Just the right amount of distant clouds were over the Blue Ridge so that soft stretches of orange and pink were occasionally punctuated with striations of neon. Half the sky shifted in […]
Nature Bathing, Social Bathing, Water Bathing at TCPC
There is just no way we would have headed south from Ohio this year without making a repeat stop at the Cumberland Valley Plateau Campground in central Tennessee (TCPC). I wrote about this place something like four separate times during our one-week stay last year, so I’ll try to keep this one short. It’s hard […]
How the Alaska Highway Is Different
Sure, in the last three years we’ve taken several road-trips through picturesque mountains, with glacier-fed lakes and all manner of wildlife around us. So, how is this trip to Alaska different, at least so far? One Road; Everyone’s on It We’ve just entered Yukon at Watson Lake, which is pretty much the only place you […]
Muncho Lake with Friends
This is such a beautiful place, but you add friends, and it’s like cranking the dial up to 11. We’re at Muncho Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, camped right next to Doug and Melanie. You know them: we met a couple of years ago in Anza Borrego (California) back when they had their Airstream. […]
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 characteristics of friendships according to psychologists (that I’d hastily googled). That’s because we’d hung out with our hosts Sherri and Mooch several times since we first met […]
Hot Potting in the Rainforest
Dear Pacific Northwest Rainforest: Why do you have to be so wet and cold? I understand the wet part, and I hear the cold part is actually “mild” during the winter. But man oh man have we been cold and wet. It’s worth repeating. Don’t get me wrong. The forest has been lush and otherworldly, and I’m glad […]
Introducing GDTR Guest Writers
New voices have joined me here! Here are regular posts by sets of friends we’ve made on the road, friends who RV full-time or mostly fulltime or who help us RV. Click on their names for their posts, or click here for all guest posts: Guest Posts Here are a few: And here are our […]
Sweetwater Summit
It’s a chilly, drizzly day on top of Sweetwater Summit at its regional park campground—in the town of Chula Vista, directly east of San Diego. But no matter: we have full hookups, which means we can run the heat pump on city electricity (saving our propane for nights in the tent), and I’ve been gleefully […]