Friends ask me what we’ll do once we’ve set up camp and are staying for a bit. Here’s what I expect—in photo essay form. Outdoors-ing Competing Cooking & Eating, Knitting & Playing the Uke, Petting Banjo Seeing Bands Finding Good Beer Do you think we’ll get bored?
Month: January 2020
Small-space Planning
We’ve got a to-do list as long as my arm (really, both arms) of crucial stuff we need to take care of before we can leave, but I keep getting distracted by the inside of the Airstream. I’m thinking big-time organization and decorating. And clearly, from the image above, I’m no great interior designer. But […]
Preliminary Travel Plans
Our plan is to head west: on the fabled open roads, to the sweeping vistas, and, importantly, to free camping off the grid on BLM land and other RV-insider boondocking spots. But, first we need to take care of full-time living housekeeping. Early Spring: Texas I mentioned in a previous post that we’re establishing residency […]
Are We Going to Work from the Road?
Hell, no. Retirement means spending all morning sitting under the awning of your Airstream in jammies, drinking tea and listening to the birds. It means going on a hike that afternoon and not checking the time other than by watching the sun as it lowers. It means picking up and leaving the campsite whenever you […]
Keeping a Connection to the Matrix
These interim posts are turning out to be a way to answer Frequently Asked Questions (better than my Not-yet asked Questions section). Here’s one: A friend recently asked how we’re going to deal with administrative stuff, like mail and voting. Notice how the Airstream doesn’t have a house number or a mail slot? So we […]
What about Your House?
We are asked this a lot. Our answer: We’re selling it! No, we don’t want to keep it as a rental or an investment or a place to come back to in case living on the road doesn’t work out. This will be a clean transition, baby, from owning a billion things—large and small—to owning […]
The Mindset of Major Change
You guys know that significant change and I are frequent dance partners. When we’re together there’s quite a lot of spinning; change gets me dizzy then throws me out to the edge of the dance floor hanging by our fingertips, to pull me back close again for the next spin. Other times we engage in […]
Fixin to Sell the Frolic
Something big we need to do before we hit the road in the Airstream is to sell the Frolic. I’ve a friend who’s interested in her, but a whole series of factors have to fall into place for that to happen, so in case it doesn’t I’m fixin’ to advertise. We put a lot of […]
Paring Down and Gearing Up
Inside our house is beginning to feel spare, which makes it perversely inviting. Why did we have all that stuff in the first place? Paring Down First we gave away the easy stuff, the low-hanging fruit. Things like: the contents of an entire linen closet. Enough books to fill some guy’s car. All holiday decorations […]
What about Banjo?
Unwittingly, we made a couple of smart moves before we knew we’d be hitting the road this spring. One was adopting Banjo. We’d both agreed we wanted a dog to travel with, but the timing for adoption would be tricky. We had been fostering dogs thinking that we’d start looking for the special one closer […]
