Since I hit the road, I’ve blogged philosophically about my rare visits with Finn. After we part and I sit down with my photos, I get all emotional and start feeling sorry for myself that I don’t see him as much as I thought I would—and not nearly as much as I want to. Right […]
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Situating, Helicoptering, Celebrating
Getting Situated in Honeydale We’ve been here about three weeks, but I still stumble when friends ask how I like our new winter digs. They’re asking and I’m stumbling because, several times before we got here, I talked about how this could be the place we pick to come back to each winter. But the […]
Maintaining Friendships on the Road
We are just now off of a social tour. (I like to call any special leg of our on-going trip a “tour,” as if we’d mindfully planned a trip with certain goals. Well, sometimes we do, and sometimes tours develop on their own. In either case, naming segments of our routes, ”tours,” makes it easy […]
Those Chicken Friends Visit the Visitors
I hope my old friends, Susan and Alex, get a kick out of being called, ”My chicken friends,” because that’s how I’ll always think of them on this blog, ever since they hosted us at their house in Atlanta last year and introduced us to their daughter’s chickens. That was one heck of a fun […]
Wash Day, Storm Day, Cousin Day!
We’ve had an eventful couple of days at the Airstream park, TCPC, in Tennessee. (If you missed my previous descriptions of the park, try here and here: then you’ll see that “eventful” also means “relaxing” and ”delightfully social” and <insert all kinds of positive words here>.) First Pro Wash and Wax! Sherri and Mooch turned […]
Is It an RV Park or a Neighborhood?
On our way between two major stops—Finn in Michigan and appointments in Texas—we’re visiting our Airstreaming friends, Sherri and Mooch, whom we met two winters ago in the Florida Keys and feel a special connection with. I’ve posted this photo before when we ran into them unexpectedly at different Florida campground; it shows how much […]
Meet-up at the Mothership
We’re in the tiny town in Ohio where the one and only Airstream factory is located; truly, all Airstreams—for dealers across the country, for individuals and companies wanting custom trailers, for Europe, Australia, Japan—all Airstreams are made here at the Mothership. This is our third annual pilgrimage, partly because it happens to be on our […]
Our Flight from Sleepy Hollow’s Halloween
Since we hit the road, we seem to have a knack for staying at creepy-sounding places on Halloween. First was Tate’s Hell, with Rebel and Hook prowling Womack Creek in Florida. We spent the next Halloween in none other than Death Valley, although I remember it because we went out to eat for the first […]
An Hour with Finn > Basically, Anything
You know that line in the Kinks’ big hit: “It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, except for Lola.” That’s been our camping experience here north of Lansing, mixed up, muddled up, except for Finn. And poor guy, although not as complex as Lola, he’s got a lot going on, himself. Anything As I described in […]
When the Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few
You know Spock’s motto. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” (Or, the one, as in The Wrath of Khan when Spock sacrifices himself.) This is also the motto of many parents, and I’m not talking about all that driving around. I’m talking about later, when your child is ready to […]
