If you’re lucky enough to have been able to take a vacation, you know that the whole point is to be away from regular life. You want to be physically away, in a new place, where you can forget about your usual worries, where you get out of your routine, where normal life is suspended. If you’re lucky […]
Month: May 2022
Peering at the Ocean, Peering under Rocks
Damn this cold and wind. I feel like I haven’t been truly warm since this past fall in Death Valley, and even then the temps dropped as soon as the sun lowered. I know we’ve had warm—even hot—days intermittently, but we seem to carry the cold with us, and the ever-present wind. Here at Sonoma […]
Shana & Marcus Take on Foodie Land
At our camping spot here on the Del Mar Fairgrounds in California, we can see the ocean to our west, and directly south there’s a lagoon that rises and falls with the tide. We’ve fished off the banks with hopes of casting in just the right spot to pull a halibut off the lagoon bed. […]
Naked River Nymphs & a Shoe Hoard
I like to base my posts on a theme, or a story, or even just an explanation about an aspect of life on the road. Anything to avoid the “We’re here, and we did this” pattern, which becomes mighty monotonous after >400 posts. Sometimes life is simply random, however, and I can’t knit a pattern out […]
Shana & Marcus’ Rich Strike
We found ourselves back at the Del Mar Fairgrounds during the Kentucky Derby, so this edition is all about a Rich Strike (both the horse and our own Rich Strike). The Fast Horse Here at the fairgrounds the Derby was broadcast on the track, so we had to take full advantage. In keeping with the day, […]
Jailhouse Rock Tiny House
This is my tiniest house yet, at who knows what scale, but tiny. I made it inside a tin that’s supposed to be a TV set. As you can see, it’s either a well-appointed jail cell or a dorm room, with a bed, a desk, and a bureau. One string of fairy lights had to […]
Unexpected Perks of Visiting Friends on the Road
You know how we love to meet up with old friends who live near our route. Sometimes they come to the campsite, or we go to their house and hang out on their deck, or we meet them in town; once we even stayed in a friend’s driveway. Just seeing familiar faces is a pleasure. […]
The Big Winter Decision
When you live in an RV and want to stay where it’s warm, your choices for winter are limited. Florida 2020-21 As you guys know, we totally spoiled ourselves by spending our first winter in southern Florida: Thanksgiving in the Everglades, December at an RV resort near Naples (top photo), and January and February in […]
Mystery Neighbor at the 21% Lake
We’re about an hour north of Fresno, CA, at a Corps of Engineers campground built around a reservoir called Hensley Lake. Hidden View Campround As with nearly all USACE campgrounds we’ve stayed at so far, this one’s been designed beautifully and outfitted to the max. When they plan building a dam to create a reservoir, […]
Heart-palpitating Monterey Bay Aquarium
I’d anticipated this day for years; I was thrilled by this day; I took tons of photos this day; but my post of this day is the lamest I’ve ever written! Here are my excuses: I’m writing it offline so don’t have access to facts other than what’s in my sieve-like brain; I even stupidly […]
