Because we haven’t been able to drive away from our campsite here (see previous post on why the truck has to remain hitched to the trailer), we’ve had four very quiet days. I’d call them days of decompression, but who am I kidding: we weren’t compressed to begin with. But normally we’d leave the campsite […]
Month: April 2021
Maybe USACE Engineers Don’t Own Airstreams
We’ve stayed at only a handful of campsites built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE; the campgrounds are called, for short, COEs), but they have a great reputation: well-manicured campgrounds on lakes, mostly waterfront sites, and little things like wooden staircases up inclines that make a difference when you’re spending a week or […]
Camping with Rose Apothecary
Just kidding. But this Harvest Host stay is thanks to a southern version of David’s store in Schitt’s Creek. A very sweet-seeming couple has renovated a garage here in southern Georgia into a high-end general store, and they specialize in artisanal oils from their farm. This seems to be a trend in farming that we […]
Inventory Swap for Post-vaccine Life
I know I’ve mentioned this a thousand times, but when we packed up the trailer and took off on March 20, 2020, we had no idea what the world would look like in a few weeks or months—let alone a year. This old tune probably sounds tedious to you because you were in the same […]
Gold Head Branch
Need to be close to a populated area but want the feel of nature? Once again, you can count on Florida state parks. We’re less than an hour away from Tracy’s sister in Gainesville, but our state park, Gold Head Branch, sits on a longleaf pine-covered, sandy set of acres, with a ravine in the […]
