In just two days, we show up (knock on wood) at the International Airstream Rally in Sedalia, Missouri. We’ve never been to an Airstream anything, so we figured we’d go whole-hog with the big one this year. Truthfully, we planned this a year ago when we thought we’d be coming back from Newfoundland, but even […]
Month: September 2024
The Unexpected Allure of the Midwest
I knew nothing about the Midwest before I met Tracy, and it’s not like I know much now. Really, as we travel around the country and I think about where I might like to live as a home base, the only thing I’ve learned about the Midwest is what it does not have. It’s nowhere […]
Doing All the -ings on the Turkey River
Yep, that’s me, the tiny pink dot in the middle of that wide, shallow river. I’m paddling my heart out there, but I’m also doing the other -ings these days in northeast Iowa. Camping Of course we’re always camping, but this spot feels like real camping, the kind we choose when we can. Normally we’d […]
Deer Butts, Meet-ups, Hard up in Madison
Talk about pressure. I just walked away from lunch with my blogging mentor, Mark (Mark My Words), who A) told me he’d be blogging about our meet-up in the next few days, which means I’d better get a decent post up in case any of his million followers check me out, and B) showed me […]
How Do You Go to the ER at 3am When the Campground Gate Is Locked?
We did not have to figure that one out, thankfully, but the topic was pertinent. The morning we left East Lansing, we stopped to get the updated Covid vaccine, hopefully in time for the crowded Airstream rally in October. Now, Tracy sometimes gets like a vaccine hangover, and I always get downright sick, so we planned […]
In Finn’s Town
I’m in East Lansing, Michigan, on our annual fall trip to hang out with Finn during whatever free time he has. Which is tricky, because he has no free time; he’s extra busy prepping for two presentations he’s making later this month at two physics conferences. I have been able to meet him for lunch […]
Choosing a Campsite When You Anticipate Neighbors
We’re at a small county campground in SW Michigan that’s unusual: instead of being part of a popular county park with a playground or whatnot, it’s on land leased from the state wildlife and game preserve (I believe; the brochure we picked up is complicated). What I do know is it’s out in the woods, […]
Messing Around Our Mothership Appointment
We successfully navigated our 5th (or was it our 6th?) service appointment at the Airstream service center, right beside the Airstream factory in Ohio. Five might not seem like a lot, but the last three have been within a year, and we’ve had to scurry to Ohio each time to make sure we got to […]
