I’ve sung this many times when we’ve gotten back on the road after a long stay in one place, but this time I mean it in a bunch of ways. Saddles One saddle I’m back in is a literal saddle, the one on my bike, finally. After basically six months of waking up early to […]
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What Severe Weather Means for Us
I don’t think about big bad weather unless it’s right on top of us, so I’ve never written about it in general. After OG blogger Mark asked me about it (several times, sorry, dude!), I realized it’s been a bigger factor in our lives than I thought. So, here’s a retrospective of weather we’ve ridden […]
What Does Comfort Mean?
We’ve been spending a week in a house, a real house, with a life-size kitchen and hot running water and actual bedrooms with doors that close and a hair dryer in the bathroom. A hair dryer! In other words: comfort. Yes, I’ve really enjoyed this house. The soft sofa, especially welcome the day after we both got […]
The Nomad Fitness Struggle
I’m sitting here writing a blog entry on the sofa instead of doing a workout, which speaks to a universal problem with fitness, right? Laziness. I think that’s why routine really gets me into working out, and it’s why it’s so hard to maintain a fitness schedule on the road. Routine is a total bitch. […]
The Surprise of Right Angles
I’m typing this in Finn’s vacation condo on South Padre Island. If you need to catch up here: My son Finn rented a couple of condos back to back for his big break from school, both on the island near where I’m spending the winter in Brownsville, Texas. The first one had only one bedroom, […]
Generosity Shines Warmly on Christmas Eve
This Christmas was looking to be fairly miserable for me, and then a couple of gestures by strangers turned it to merry and bright. Seriously! This is what happened. So, I’ve been sitting inside the trailer for the past two weeks feeling like a combo of Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge. Why? You know, but I gotta […]
Conjuring Good Vibrations
It’s been a week since my spectacular one-woman bicycle accident—amazingly, along a straight-away on a paved road—that somehow screwed up my knee. The more I think about it (it’s been a long week), the more I have no idea how I managed such a Charlie-Chaplinesque move. One minute I was zooming along, wondering about those […]
Airstreams Are Not Crutch-Compatible
I’ve been using crutches for less than a week now, so I hardly have room to complain. I’d like to; I surely feel like complaining.  But seeing as how so many people I know have endured knee injuries, the only legit angle I have for whining is the pain in the ass that is living in […]
Happy Funhouse of Light Thanksgiving
I was about to say that I should post on Thanksgiving if only to commemorate where we are, since I love looking back at anniversaries. There was our first Thanksgiving in the beautiful Everglades, the next one boondocking in windy Joshua Tree, then camping right in New Orleans (which feels like last week, not last […]
Back to the Mothership, Again
We are once more in Ohio at the Airstream factory and service center for repairs. Yep. We’re here for the fourth or fifth time, not because we keep breaking things (well, there’s that, too), but because this is the only factory and national service center, which means the mechanics here are excellent. And when they […]
