For those of you not in the know, playgroup is when parents get together regularly to complain about parenting and to compare their babies. (Just joking!) Playgroup actually is a way to let babies and toddlers who aren’t in daycare socialize. (Okay, if you’ve ever tried to get toddlers to socialize, you know that’s a […]
Month: March 2024
Tracy Being Cheap for the Win Again
Tracy hates to pay for a place to stay when we’re stoping for just one night, and I don’t blame him, but it’s pretty funny the lengths he’ll go. Last night we found ourselves driving down a narrow, red-clay path in the woods in rural Georgia, wondering what the heck. We pulled over at a […]
With Love, from Gainesville
It’s especially difficult to blog while on the Friends and Family tour. There’s this intimacy you feel, after you’ve made all the arrangements and finally caught up with someone—Yay! I miss that feeling when I’m alone and cherish it when I’m with someone. But it’s intense and it’s brief. One minute you’re borrowing barrettes and […]
Four Years of GDTR
Today’s our four-year nomadiversary! Since the day we drove away from the house and never went back, we’ve stayed at more than 200 places and I’ve written almost 700 posts about them. Here are a handful of posts that are memorable to me, but, truthfully, the new random button on the homepage comes up with […]
Wish You Were There: Road to Forgiveness
It’s been at least a year since I wrote in this personal series on grief, and I’m not really back at it here, more like wrapping it up. When we landed in Brownsville for this past winter, I began a series of therapy sessions called trauma therapy, with the goal of getting this grieving show […]
The Land that Time Forgot
That’s the unofficial motto of the closest town to us right now, Micanopy, Florida. It’s the oldest town in non-coastal Florida that’s been continually lived in, and it really feels like it. We stopped there to grab a quick lunch on the way to a PT appointment in Gainesville, and we had to watch where we […]
Crappy Travel Day into Fabulous Tour Start
We’ve had worse travel days, but not many. I’m talking about the day we drove from Tuscaloosa, AL to near Pensacola, FL, just a couple of days ago. We didn’t break down or almost lose the kayaks on the highway or set up in the wrong campsite or back into a tree (okay, we’ve never […]
Home of the Elongated Diphthong
I’m rebel-born and rebel-bred, and when I die I’ll be a rebel dead. —cheerleading chant from where I grew up in central Virginia You’re lucky no one’s called you, ‘Yankee’ yet. —camphost in the old forests of Florida Does Mama drive the truck? —old guy to Tracy, pointing at me Sissy needs a new diaper, […]
Primo Camping Spots from 4 Years on the Road
I’m really digging this retrospective series here. I’ve put all the four-year posts I’ve compiled, so far, on this page, if you’re into them, too. This theme was suggested by my friend Matt, but I’ve struggled to figure out criteria. “Camping sites” usually means in campgrounds, and there aren’t that many I’ve even liked. I have […]
Emergency Trifecta in the Can
There’s no new emergency, no worries there. I’m thinking about our three simultaneous emergencies that hit in early December: trailer floor replacement, knee surgery, and mystery endocrine ailment. One is completely solved, the other two I’m wrestling with still, but I have both down for the count. As I reported last week, the trailer has […]
