Between national parks, we stopped to visit friends Doug and Melanie as they prep their new homebase (an rv, of course) deep in the northern Chihuahua Desert. We drove seven miles down a dirt road with no development in sight to get to this park outside Deming, New Mexico, where Doug and Melanie have bought […]
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A Koan for Writing
(Here’s a post unrelated to travel. The end is where I caption the above photo, which is the point of this post.) You know how one small thing someone says can amazingly ring true. Even if you’ve read about this thing a ton or you know about it theoretically, or whatever, you never really felt […]
Pulling Off an Airstream Surprise
I kept quiet about our immediate plans after Houston because the big plan was making a 🎊surprise visit 🎉 and we pulled it off! We had to have every element of the whole week go exactly as planned—the trailer repair and truck tires and hotel stay with Banjo and plumbing appointment for me—and then we hitched […]
You Might Be a Full-timing Airstreamer If …
What a joy it’s been to get to know other full-timing Airstreamers whom we met at the International rally in October. Rachael and Leon run a Facebook group for us, and Tom and Amy inspire me with their activist writing every day. Here’s a fun post Tom left on that Facebook group that, now that […]
How Many Stories Can We Tell?
“Can I tell you about the book I’m reading?” “Did I tell you the funny story about those friends?” “Tell me more about what you want to do.” “Could you tell me how to do that?” The simple story goes: I stayed with Finn for the first half of his vacation on South Padre Island, […]
Moments of Silly > All Else
I had written an eloquent post (really, I did!) about helping my friend Karen move into her house, and how it got me thinking about the stresses of moving, and how Tracy and I do it every week, and how much we have to cooperate and communicate to live in a tiny home, yadda yadda. […]
Doing All the -ings on the Turkey River
Yep, that’s me, the tiny pink dot in the middle of that wide, shallow river. I’m paddling my heart out there, but I’m also doing the other -ings these days in northeast Iowa. Camping Of course we’re always camping, but this spot feels like real camping, the kind we choose when we can. Normally we’d […]
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 […]
In Finn’s Town
I’m in East Lansing, Michigan, on our annual fall trip to hang out with Finn during whatever free time he has. Which is tricky, because he has no free time; he’s extra busy prepping for two presentations he’s making later this month at two physics conferences. I have been able to meet him for lunch […]
Where To Next?
We’re driving south today for the first time since we hit Florida in April and the second time since we left Texas this winter. It’s like we’re sweeping up and down the eastern part of the country, which certainly was not the plan. We’re biding our time, basically, waiting for word from various doctors, to see […]
