I can’t believe that makes sense right now. Bear with me. Tracy’s been working like crazy on the hitch: he shipped a big part back to Michigan, they serviced it and shipped it back to us, then they shipped new parts to us. He’s been machine-sanding old parts, painting them, assessing them. Finally, he spent […]
Month: March 2025
Lifestyles of the Rebellious and Unattached
I think about this a lot. What traits do we full-timers share? I think I’ve finally nailed it: we share a lack of strong ties. Call it non-attachment, if you’d like. Either willingly or unwillingly, we no longer have connections to nearby family, to a special home, to long-standing family traditions, strong friendship circles, a […]
Singer-Songwriter Smackdown While in Limbo
We have semi-progress with the hitch, which is better than pseudo-progress and definitely better than a hitch in the hitch. The hitch company in Michigan is servicing the crucial bearing part of the old hitch, and Tracy has ordered new parts from them, so with the old parts and the new parts, he’s going to […]
Exactly Five Years on the Road!
I’m working hard here to figure out how to say something about myself in the midst of the crisis our country and our world is in. I’ve written two complete posts this week and then deleted them for being petty compared to what I’m reading in the news and hearing from friends and family. So, […]
A Koan for Writing
(Here’s a post unrelated to travel. The end is where I caption the above photo, which is the point of this post.) You know how one small thing someone says can amazingly ring true. Even if you’ve read about this thing a ton or you know about it theoretically, or whatever, you never really felt […]
Hitch Quasi-Update and How Wild It Is that RVers Live in Different Ways
I’m always the wise-ass with my son when I give him my version of science-related advice: no matter how frustrating it feels to hit dead-ends in research, you are making progress when things fall apart in that you’re ruling out options. It feels like no progress at all, though, I know that. And it’s the […]
Sitting Here in Limbo
A classic from Jimmy Cliff: Sitting here in limbo Waiting for the tide to flow Sitting here in limbo Knowing that I have to go I can’t say what life will show me But I know what I’ve seen I can’t say where life will lead me But I know where I’ve been (Three quick […]
My Tea Set Regrets
This is a superfluous post. If you’re here for an update on our breakdown status, we made it safely back to the RV park our friends are in by using the interim hitch, and we’ll stay here while Tracy rebuilds our good hitch. Meanwhile, I think of tea. It’s not my fault that I have […]
