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 […]
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1 Beach, 2 Beach, 3 Beach, Parking Lot
Goal: Spend November working our way down to the Tip o’ Texas via the Gulf Coast, camping right on the beach wherever we can. Reality: Spend November sitting in our tiny trailer listening to a space drama podcast, when not driving around wondering where the heck we’re going to park for the night. I would […]
Banjo Doesn’t Care Where We Go (We’ve Planned Anyway)
Banjo is always excited to hop into the truck and go, but she’s pretty blasé about the route. There’s no hanging her head out the window with ears blowing in the wind or tongue spattering spit down the truck sides; Banjo sleeps the whole trip. Same deal with our destination: she’ll sniff around the new […]
Oh So Brownsville
Tracy saw a stray dog in Lowe’s the other day, just trotting down the aisles like it lived there. Then he heard an announcement over the loudspeaker: “If anyone’s lost a tan dog, it’s in plumbing.” Well, that’s optimistic on several counts. Next, an employee tried to shoo it out the front doors, but it […]
Lazy Beach Bums
I feel like I should post this last time about camping on the beach near Galveston, but I haven’t done anything worth posting about. I hardly have photos. No stories. No local dialogue. The laziness upon us is like a drug. We don’t have to pack a bag for the beach; we just step outside. […]
Beach Camping!
I’ve been watching this style of iconic video for so long, and finally I get to make my version. Okay, so my beach isn’t pristine (and neither is the interior of the trailer), but … we’re BEACH CAMPING! Finally. For ages I’ve seen RVers post about camping right on the beach, and we’ve driven by […]
Banjo Goes Cracker Dog at the Beach
In my last entry, I wrote about the diverse—and crowded—campground we’re in at Nahalem Bay State Park, on the coast west of Portland, Oregon. Yeah, I bitch about campgrounds and am amazed by the people in them, and it’s true that this is the largest one we’ve been on on this Pacific Coast leg that’s […]
“She Gets Excited Easily”
That’s how Tracy excused me when I suddenly jumped up and left our weekly Zoom trivia game. Go Team Donner Party! Just without me for a bit. There was a whale within sight, and I had to grab the binoculars to watch it surface. This was the third majorly wonderful wild animal spotting in a […]
Am I on Vacation?
If you’re lucky enough to have been able to take a vacation, you know that the whole point is to be away from regular life. You want to be physically away, in a new place, where you can forget about your usual worries, where you get out of your routine, where normal life is suspended. If you’re lucky […]
Peering at the Ocean, Peering under Rocks
Damn this cold and wind. I feel like I haven’t been truly warm since this past fall in Death Valley, and even then the temps dropped as soon as the sun lowered. I know we’ve had warm—even hot—days intermittently, but we seem to carry the cold with us, and the ever-present wind. Here at Sonoma […]