A big attraction near Brownsville is SpaceX, a half-hour from us near Boca Chica Beach. This huge facility—with the Starbase production site on one side of the road and the launch pad on the other—draws in gawkers of all types, some who want to be up close during launches. Rocket Ranch is a campground that […]
Month: January 2023
How to Juggle Mattresses
We’ve been sleeping on the mattress Airstream provides for almost three years now, which, in RV-mattress years, has to be waaaay too long. (The average person with an RV spends 35 days per year in theirs, and Finn tells me that means we’ve spent 30 years in ours in a direct comparison.) My point is: […]
Mom’s Bird Book
This entry is part of my personal series on grief, called Wish You Were There, that’s unrelated to travel. I didn’t hold a service or go to one for my sister or my niece (I was taking care of Mom, kind of), but when Mom was the last of that set to die, I was […]
Most-timers FTW
It’s been a week since friends we met on the road, Melanie and Doug, arrived here in Brownsville, Texas. They’re at the end of their trip exploring the southwest; they’ll head home to Ohio in a bit to regroup before another year on the road. OMG, their visit has been for the win! (We’ve been […]
The KK Brings Friends
We’ve had exciting times at Honeydale Mobile Home and RV Park: a new trailer arrived, and it’s the home of our friends! I’m partly making fun of myself: I get so excited when an rv shows up here because it reminds me we’re not the only travelers left (seems like it among all these mobile […]
What I Learned after My Sister Died
This entry is part of my personal series on grief, called Wish You Were There, that’s unrelated to travel. Now that it comes down to it, I’m struggling to figure out how to write about my sister even though she’s on my mind a lot. Turns out, it’s tricky writing anything negative about a dead […]
Goings on in Brownsville
It’s not until we’re in place for a while and I sit down to blog that I realize how freaking content-rich the traveling life is. When we’re still, I have no cogent theme to write around. How do bloggers bind everything together so neatly when you don’t have a tidy timeline of change to follow? […]
Who’s Who
My first post in this series (this previous post) basically explains what is “Wish You Were There”; this one lays the groundwork. I want to be able to tell you about my family, but I need to get the basics down, first. Above is an absolutely hilarious and absolutely accurate photo of my family. I’m […]
Introducing: Wish You Were There
WIth this post, I’m beginning an experiment with a subcategory of this blog that’s more personal than my usual posts. I know. How can you get even more personal? I’m a gonna try. And I’m going to house these entries not on the homepage of Going Down the Road but under a tab called “Wish […]
The Red Light Game
I think we all used to play a game when we were kids where the leader kid yelled out, “Green light!” and we all ran full-on until that kid yelled, “Red light!” when we skidded to a stop. It’s basically what Tracy and I’ve been doing the past year, either moving or stopping or starting. […]
