Our long-planned spring trip up the Pacific Coast begins with reservations in San Diego soon (but not yet), so we needed a stop west on the way there. Why not revisit Mars (aka Imperial Dam LTVA)? Our seasonal pass is still valid, and we can get mail and packages here, plus a handful of other […]
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Cave Troll Plots Escape from Mars
Okay, maybe I’m taking these metaphors too far. But a travel blogger who finds herself stationary in a near-lifeless desert and then gets stuck in her bedroom, thus reducing her world to a smaller sphere than her readers’, has to resort to colorful language. The good news behind all the flourish is that this cave […]
I’ve Become a Cave Troll
I am feeling better than the last time I posted, really I am. At five days after the onset of covid symptoms, my symptoms were mostly better, and I’m fever free. I was even a little optimistic. And then I took another at-home covid test. My sample showed positive so quickly and clearly that at […]
Isolating in 60 Square Feet
No one wants to hear details about someone being sick (eww), but you may be interested in how Tracy and I are trying to isolate from each other in the 200-sq-ft trailer, as I’ve caught the Omicron virus and, so far, Tracy’s not showing any symptoms and certainly doesn’t want to catch it from me. […]
Errand Day from the Road
I wrote this post the day before coming down with symptoms of Omicron, so I probably had it then and didn’t know it. Note that I wore an N95 mask each time I went inside a public place and never pulled it down. Oh, to have been so ignorant of oncoming Yuck! Head to Town […]
The End of the Doldrums in Sight
To me, people say they’re in the duldrums when they’re stuck in a sad state of inactivity. I prefer the more specific nautical reference, which is a location: “the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless waters” (NOAA). One of my favorite sets of books, Patrick O’Brian’s […]
The Is-That-Person-Dangerous Game
Here’s an aspect of living on the road that people don’t talk much about. I’ve written previously about how weird it is to be always the stranger in a strange land, but today I’ve been thinking about what it’s like to be surrounded by strangers. Always trying to guess: Is this person walking by my […]
A Love Letter to Our Tent
Dear QUIK-SET (sic) tent, How fondly I remember the day you entered our lives. We were in the middle of our first summer on the road, in Iowa where you were delivered to our friends in Elkader. Just look at how fresh and young you were that day. Allow me two asides, dear Tent. 1) […]
What’s Behind that Unusual Van
After I posted a tour of my neighbor’s van conversion, several of you dear readers (I love using that phrase) said that I’d left you hanging. So, what’s in the trailer behind the van? I’ll tell you what Tyll told me the day he gave me the tour. Creating Community as a Nomad In the […]
Calm Days, Dramatic Skies
Yes, we’re still at Imperial Dam LTVA, where not much is happening. It’s so quiet here, in fact, that this morning when the weather was warm and the wind mild, I totally forgot to go to yoga. The mind stretches out across these views, and you lose track of everything. We’re waiting here as we […]
