Where Salt Marsh Meets the Sea
We’re spending the rest of November traveling down the Texas coast, camping at one beach spot for a few days, then moving on. A sampling, a taste of each one. We’ve done this before, so we’re staying at a few favorites, but we’re also adding new spots, like here, our starting point at the top […]
Surprising Watkins Glen
I could tell before we pulled into the campground that I was going to hate this place. Tons of out-of-town traffic, signs and parking lots for shuttles, restaurants and gift shops, all for some bunch of waterfalls or something. But Tracy insisted I go on a certain short hike he’d been on years ago. He […]
Alaska Photo Journey
I’ve been thinking back to our Alaska trip last summer (2023), and I’ve realized I don’t have a single, encompassing compilation of our memories. Here goes! British Columbia in May The Alaska Highway connects the Lower 48 with Alaska, and it’s really the only way to get to Alaska. Like a lot of road-trippers, we […]
For Itinerants, We Sure Settle Down Well
I’d forgotten that a friendly Canadian gave me her tiki bar sign right off her campsite post in Alberta a couple of summers ago. Here, in the Tip o’ Texas, we’ve been unpacking storage spots in the Airstream that I didn’t realize we had (which is saying something) and finding things like tiki bar signs […]
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 Gets to Enjoy Alaska
Ever since a bear wandered through our campsite in British Columbia, we’ve kept Banjo on a short leash and almost never on the tie-out line that gives her free rein of the campsite. We’ve been on the lookout all the way north for bear, foxes, moose, who knows what, because wild animals do like to […]
You Keep Watching the Tundra, Then You Remember to Look Up (at Tombstone)
I said this to Tracy yesterday while we were hiking along the mountains in the northern part of Tombstone Territorial Park, here in the Yukon, a little east of Fairbanks. The sub-arctic tundra here is so beautiful—moss and lichen and flowers—a deep cover that insulates the permafrost right below. Even if the ground weren’t captivating, […]
What 10 Million Bats Looks Like
They don’t look like anything I can describe, is what they look like. There is no way to capture in a photograph, or even a video, the enormity and beauty of this many animals moving all at once, together as a colony and individually as mammals, feeding. They fly together, and they fly into each […]
Kayaking the Largest Oxbow
You probably know this, but I didn’t: an oxbow is a water formation that started as a big curve in a river that got cut off, as in the river took a short cut through the curve, for whatever reason, and kept going, leaving the curve on its own as a separate body of water. […]
A Gem South of Revelstoke
Revelstoke (how cool a name is that?) is a tourism town in British Columbia, Canada, where people come to ski, mountain bike, hike, fish, rock climb: you name it. It reminds me a bit of Red Lodge in Montana: a gateway to grand national parks in BC. From the vibe I got at the only […]
“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 […]
Hellhole Canyon and the Slot
There’s not a ton of hiking near us in Anza-Borrego, but we’ve done two short ones that have made the stay here worth it. Indeed, hikes are a memorable as the names. Hellhole Canyon The park brochure description makes this out to be a 6-hour hike into the wastelands of misery, but we did it […]
Packing up and Moving On
Goodbye Lake Koocanusa Today’s the day we leave Lake Koocanusa, outside of Eureka, Montana, where we’ve been for two weeks. Two whole weeks! That’s longer than we’ve stayed anywhere since we were in the Florida Keys this past winter, and it’s longer than we’ve stayed anywhere boondocking (without any connections to water, sewer, electricity). I’m […]
Beartooth Highway
According to Destination Red Lodge, Beartooth Highway is “the most beautiful roadway in America.” Maybe “roadway” is the operative term here, being used in a very specific way, because I sure do enjoy Highway 101 along the Pacific Coast, and The Going to the Sun Road in Glacier Nat. Park, and even Skyline Drive along the […]
Getting in the Groove at the Keys Just as We Prep to Leave
We have one last week here of our six-week stay, and I’m realizing how much I’m going to miss this place. Yes, it’s crowded with tourists, and the new highly-contagious variant of the virus is here more than most anywhere in the U.S. So it’s definitely time for us to move on. But look at […]
Banjo, Don’t Step on That!
I’ve written here earlier that we’re on a small key that’s been developed almost entirely into our RV park. Our trailer is about where the circle is. There’s a bit of wild land on the other side of the highway that we can walk to under the bridge (see my clever hand-drawn arrow). It’s weird […]
Beautiful Myakka River State Park
We scheduled only one full day at this state park outside of Sarasota, Florida, which turns out to be way too little time to watch all the water birds, to hike and bike the trails through the palms and live oaks, to watch the enormous alligators in the river. But the two nights we have […]

Travel, Pay Attention, Reflect, Repeat

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Merry Christmas, from Warmth and Sunshine!

It’s Christmas Eve here in Brownsville, and I’d planned on going to the cocktail party at the RV park clubhouse this evening, but the holiday blues are upon me. It doesn’t help that I cleaned everyone out of pocket money during Card Bingo last night in a freak string of …

Pre-Christmas in Brownsville, with Mangos and Beer

We spent the Saturday before Christmas in downtown Brownsville for a full immersion in all things that are weird here. It was fabulous. The Christmas Village in the park by the zoo was deserted in the broad daylight, just the way we like it. The food trucks were closed up, …

Medical Mystery Tour Wiki

Ha! Just kidding on the wiki part. Friends have been asking me how I’m doing, and I kept thinking, how handy would a wiki be here, right? I could write with tons of footnoted links, and friends could contribute what they know about conditions, or, better yet, stories of me …

On Hearing the Palm Fronds Rustle

I ride my bike to the RV park’s fitness room each morning, and then I park it against the trunk of a palm tree. To get it situated just right so it won’t blow over in the wind while I’m in the gym, I have to duck under the fronds …

Still Catching Our Collective Breath

I haven’t been my usual chatterbox self here on the blog because there hasn’t been much to report. Except! For big news! (Oh how easily I forget.) My knee is finally better! I found a chiropractor willing to do a modified set of jerks; he was more conservative than the …

Friends at the Heart of 2024

You might remember that, for our 2024 travel, we’d planned on this: We ended up doing this: We zigzagged up and down as we changed plans on the fly, mostly while I tried to figure out what the heck was going on with my health. I’ve been thinking about how …

Photos – a sample

It’s Always Happy Hour Somewhere

Four Years of Landscapes

Four Years of GDTR

Alaska Photo Journey

Banjo Across the Country

Fun Shots from Four Years

Prose – a sample

Living Between Two Worlds

Why I Do This

When the Wow Is Ho Hum

Lessons from Isolation

Perpetual Stranger in a Strange Land

Death by Paper Cuts?

Balance Is a Seesaw

Blogging in Dark Times

We Are All Caricatures of Ourselves

Sundry