Yay, we’re back in the Airstream! I actually slept for several gosh darn hours in a row last night in my own bed. This was after I cleaned the fridge (it had grown mold while in the heat of the shop), waited for it and the freezer to cool again, and moved our food back […]
Author: Shelly
Former nomad, currently adjusting.
Fun Pics as We Leave the AirBnB Vacay
Goodbye, weird RV resort! Goodbye, tons of Christmas decorations! (Although the next place we go to, I saw an ad for a Christmas golf cart parade ….) Goodbye shuffleboard, and good riddance) (Tracy beat the socks off me, had I been wearing any.) Goodbye bear that freaked Banjo out during our morning walk. Turns out, […]
Okay, We’ve Had Enough
Not of living on the road! We’ve had enough of this living-in-a-house business. We’ve been in this AirBnB for three days. The washer was replaced, so I did all our laundry. The TV is a treat, but all that’s on is the same terrible stuff we used to not watch. We resorted to scrolling through […]
I’m Glad My Fate Includes Keeping My Eyeballs
Yes, we’re taking a break from the trailer, by accident in a trailer in an RV park! But this place is more like the ”tiny house” park model I was obsessed with back in Virginia and a lot less like a rickedy old mobile home than I feared. What I’m Loving Yeah, I can spin […]
I Feel Like Oedipus
Just the “I can’t escape my fate” part, not the “marry my mother, kill my father, then poke out my eyes” part. We’re in Naples to get solar panels and lithium batteries installed on the Airstream, so we’re at an RV park just a couple of miles down the road from the solar installation place. […]
An Everglades Thanksgiving
Technically we’re at the very north edge of the Everglades, at Big Cypress National Preserve. Our campground is just a paved loop around a pond, with alligator warning signs every few feet. Our camp host told us as we pulled in, “Now if y’all go outside at night, be sure to shine a flashlight under […]
Beautiful Myakka River State Park
We scheduled only one full day at this state park outside of Sarasota, Florida, which turns out to be way too little time to watch all the water birds, to hike and bike the trails through the palms and live oaks, to watch the enormous alligators in the river. But the two nights we have […]
All That and We Coulda Just Unplugged and Plugged in Again?!?
This whole first year of travel plans has been loosely based around appointments: in Ohio at the Airstream factory for minor warrantee work, in Texas for doctors, vehicle registration, and voting, and next up: Airstream of Tampa to get the awning fixed, which we haven’t been able to open since the U.P. of Michigan. After […]
A Beer Garden Worth Bending the Rules For
I know we seem like an odd pair of ducks during this pandemic, traveling while so many of our smart friends are still at home, still following safe protocol despite pandemic fatigue. The beauty of our situation is that we travel with our home behind us, so we don’t need hotels, restaurants, or rest-stop bathrooms. […]
What’s a HipCamp?
When we started out, we bought memberships to several camping discount groups. Passport America gives us 50% off at certain campgrounds, but, it turns out, with stipulations at many (like no discount all of Thanksgiving week at the place we need it at a certain place that week). Harvest Hosts gives us free access to […]
