We’ve got two weeks before we cross into Canada and start our journey north, which means that our stops these days are all about last-minute Alaska provisions. Aka: buying stuff! For people who don’t even live in a house, we sure do buy a lot of household goods. Seriously, this is the haul waiting for […]
Month: April 2023
Warm Friends in Cold Places
We’d just pulled into a casino parking lot in Altoona, Iowa, and were setting up inside when a security guard knocked on the trailer door. We brace for trouble: After having driven around the huge casino several times, we’d chosen a quiet lot over by the horse track instead of the designated (and full) RV […]
Going Indoors, B Side
The Inside Out By Marcus Every good story or album has a solid B side, or at least a shaky one, right? Well, here’s my side of the record. The Study If you read the A side, then you know why we’re here in Old Town San Diego, and you know there’s isn’t much I […]
Going Indoors
By Shana Oh, the challenges we face in this life are grand. The plans we make, and the things that seem to continuously get in the way of those plans. It’s been two years now since Marcus and I started up the coast of California, and we’ve yet to make it out of SoCal. We […]
Mom in Decline, with Kindness
This entry is part of a deeply personal series, called Wish You Were There, that’s unrelated to travel. There’s so much I don’t want to remember about the last years of my mom’s life when she had dementia. How, at first, she hated it at the assisted living place. How her memory and functioning declined […]
Update on that Wind and Water Business
This is the screenshot I sent Melanie and Doug last night while Tracy and I were driving east through the top of Missouri. I thought we were headed to that red star just out of the severe weather zones, but I wasn’t quite sure. You see, Tracy was blaring The Von Bondie on the truck […]
Misadventures with Wind and Water
Well, the water was a mishap; the wind was a near disaster. Flying Kayaks We were driving away from a big storm in Oklahoma and Kansas, into an area with less risk of hail and tornadoes in Missouri. There was still wind though, for sure: we’d had 45-mph gusts in the sketchy town park we’d […]
Diagonal Bed Tiny House
There are a few delectable aspects to this Tiny House that make me glad I worked on it, but so many other parts were such a pain that I’m also glad I simply got it finished and found a home for it. (See below!) One highlight is that two-story window and those curtains, and that […]
On One Block of Tulsa
I’m so grateful that someone I’ve never met named Jennifer was reading this blog and suggested we stop in her town; otherwise we would have driven past this gem of a city. Tulsa has a complex history: the Creek people, the oil boom, the Dust Bowl, the race riots. We listened to stories about some […]
I Got the Bigger Half
That’s what my friend, Karen, and I used to say when we were little to my mom as she fixed us lunch. “I want the bigger half!” My mom tried to explain that that’s not how “half” works, but we didn’t care. We were having fun being together and just wanted something to say about […]
