Especially when a certain someone is wearing a ginormous hat to ward off mosquitos and insists on getting in the middle of the photo. It’s also hard because there’s something about the whole of the prairie, with all the different flowers and grasses, that I can’t capture on my phone. You’ll just have to see […]
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Iowa Mead? Yes Please.
This place. I don’t want to spend any more time on my laptop writing this entry than I have to because it takes away from my time gazing at the green land and blue sky. Everywhere. So I’ll just describe my photos briefly. East Grove Farms These ~800 acres have been in the same family […]
Lincoln’s New Salem
As we make our way to Iowa and Wisconsin, we’re sticking to our plan to stay at campgrounds for the weekends so we know we have a sure-fire camping site for Friday and Saturday nights when campgrounds are often full. The pattern is to arrive Wednesday or Thursday to get a good spot and then […]
Our First Harvest Host Stay
Aka No Alpaca but Other Cutie-pie Animals Last night was our first—and fabulous—experience using our membership with Harvest Hosts. The way this works is we pay an annual fee to this organization, and they give us access to their network of businesses that welcome RVers to park with them overnight for free. What the businesses get […]
To See America, You See Americans
I thought I was done thinking about Shawnee here in southern Ohio, but I’ve got one last entry about the weekend in this campground. Things Tracy and I have said just in the last 24 hours: I never thought I’d want to call the police twice in one week. I hope that entire family […]
AM Hikes, PM Lounge
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 […]
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 […]
