I’m stuck in Livingston, not Lodi (that’s from a CCR song, if it didn’t ring a bell for you). This morning we had to re-up our camping site for seven more days because we don’t know how long it will take for the truck to get fixed. Let’s see. What will we do for seven […]
Month: October 2020
We’re on the “Group W” Bench
We’ve just reserved a campsite for Thanksgiving, which calls to mind all the times I’ve driven to the family dinner with Alice’s Restaurant playing on the car stereo—in four-part harmony. If you’ve somehow never heard this long rambling delirious wonderful song about resistance, listen to it now. Gettin’ more injections, inspections, detections, neglections …. and […]
Infiltrating the RV Full-timers’ Cult Compound
Man, this Escapees RV park (it’s called Rainbow’s End) is very, very strange to me. It is definitely an isolated bubble, a world all its own. Campsite Types There are 495 sites on the compound, and I think I can categorize them like this: regular camping spots (but close together and pretty crappy: here is […]
The Epic Quest to Become Texans
Currently we’re camped at the Escapees headquarters, the club that helps us with residency paperwork. This place is far from grand, but more on that later. Here’s my status on our residency quest, which I can’t imagine you’ll find interesting; still it’s all part of our adventure. So, we do have an official address in […]
The Campground as a Night on the Town
I’ve finally figured out how to wrap my head around why in the world people flock to crowded campgrounds where they show abject disdain for nature. When I lived in Atlanta back in the ‘90s, my co-worker knew about not only the best gay clubs with full dance floors downtown, but also how to find […]
Too Busy for Alligators
We leave this national forest north of Houston today to go just a little east to the Escapees’ campground, where we’ll take care of more business (we hope). So, I don’t have a ton of time to catch you guys up: consider this more a photo entry. Cagle Recreation Area This really is a pretty […]
Whom Can You Be Naked in Front Of?
My sister (yeah, I quote her a lot) used to say that you can be naked in front of your mother and you can be naked in front of your husband, but you can’t be naked in front of them both at the same time. I’m adding to that adage what I’ve learned during all […]
Headed Down South to the Land of the Pines
That line’s from Wagon Wheel and it’s about North Carolina, but it’s been on my mind here in Texas, oddly. We’re only passing through Texas to do a bunch of paperwork and appointments (more on that later), so I can’t give a full GDTRFB report. (That’s Going down the Road Feeling Bad as it’s written […]
