This place, Ohio’s Shawnee State Park, is really growing on me. On the advice of a couple of friends (hi, Melissa M!), I’m reading Blue Highways by a fellow named Least Heat-Moon. He reminds me how travelers set themselves up for failure by assuming what a place will be like before they get there. Perhaps […]
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Living Between Two Worlds
I feel like I’m in a Star Trek episode where the transporter has malfunctioned (in the future no one says, “broken”), and I’m stuck between two planets. It’s not as bad as the time in The Next Generation when Geordie and Ro got stuck walking around the Enterprise like ghosts and had to figure out […]
Goodbye Quarantine Campground
Well, that’s not a fully accurate headline, since we’ll be even more isolated where we’re going, but I will always think of this first campground we came to and got “stuck” at as our quarantine campground. We meant to come for a weekend and we stayed for two months. I can’t say often enough how […]
Campground or Crazy Spring Break?
Long-anticipated Memorial Day weekend—and only the second weekend that Virginia has opened campgrounds to vacationers—began here on Thursday, as RVs pulled up the long drive in and slowly filed all the spots in this ~200-spot campground. Seriously, 200 spots, and this place is now filled. All despite the fact that local hospitals are at their […]
The Dumpsters Moved! (And Even More Exciting Campground Headlines.)
Yes, we’ve been here for 55 days. 55 days. So when rented construction vehicles start moving large loads of gravel right in front of our trailer, it’s news. Dumpsters The view below is from our bedroom window. Campground Employee is on the tractor, Campground Owner is on the backhoe, and Campground Daughter (not pictured because […]
Recent Photos
Finally, we had a couple of sunny, warm days, and living in the Airstream felt like I had imagined. Front Porch Kayaking Morning Walk Tracy’s New Camera Lens Inside (on less-than-perfect-weather days) You guys, please keep staying safe.
Our Glory Days of Privacy Are Gone
Our friends took this picture (thanks Bob and Ben, I think) during last night’s Friday Night FaceTime Happy Hour. We were so busy watching new people pull in to the campground that we had to be shown how annoying we were being on FaceTime. But, can you tell by our expressions how excited we are […]
Kayaking the Great Ruth Ann
Finally, we went kayaking. Frankly it was a bit of a disappointment! A Little Backstory You guys know that Tracy is a serious kayaker. He used to take a solo trip for a month each year down a different stretch of the Mississippi, with all his gear stowed in the tiny boat compartments, camping on […]
Dumpster Update
People’s relationship to trash still baffles us here. All of Tracy’s and my trash—and I mean all (there is no recycling that we can find)—still adds up to one plastic grocery bag per day. I don’t know how we’re doing it, but that’s it. Amount and Timing And yet other people pull up to the […]