We’re back in Iowa—in Elkader, the small town where Tracy’s best friend and his wife live. We weren’t keen on visiting (hence the second take) because they’ve been dealing with all the decisions and stresses you’re faced with as small business owners these days (they own a brewery and tap room here). After Wisconsin though, […]
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What We Do in the Heat
We’ve been doing three things in Madison, WI: hanging out at a distance with old friends, walking miles of park trails, and sitting in a stupor due to the heat. Sometimes we’ve combined #1 and #3. Peeps I so enjoyed a visit from were someone Tracy went to UWM with [that’s University of Wisconsin-Madison to […]
Finally, a Sunrise to Ourselves
Turns out that’s what Banjo and I were missing the most here in this full campground without an easy place to walk. Don’t get me wrong: there are beautiful trails around the lake and all over Cedar Falls, but everyone else thinks they’re great, too. Dawn Walk This morning I got us out of the […]
What It’s Really Like on the Road
Right now we’re in Illinois staying at the campground beside the state historical park called Lincoln’s New Salem. I’ll post about this place once we figure out anything about it—I’m not even sure if it’s a state or national historic park or what because much of it is still closed. Stay tuned. In the meantime, […]
Airstreamers’ Mecca
There’s only one factory in the world that makes the iconic Airstream, and we visited it early in our travels because our Firefly needed tweaking—a handful of problems she came off the factory floor with that were under warrantee. So when we got a coveted appointment for servicing, we high-tailed it to Jackson Center, Ohio, […]
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 […]
Grateful for Friends and Family during the Lockdown
We leave this campground in less than a week and have lots to take care of before then, but before we leave I want to thank local friends and family who’ve helped us out. They all think they’ve played small parts, but really they’ve made our new life possible. Laundry Sanctuary 1) Thanks to Mary […]
Trip down the Super Highway
A big thank you to my cousins Lisa and Robin for inviting us out to a family farm nearby for a much-needed day in the woods. I know, we’re already in the woods—but here in the campground we’re surrounded by strangers, whereas out in the middle of several hundred acres of farmland and wilderness, the […]
