From when we left the Airstream factory at 5:00 pm on Friday night and headed to Iowa (we’ll pull into our destination campground around noon today, Sunday), we will have driven about 670 miles, which is way more than normal for us. We really want to see our friends in Iowa! Just a couple of […]
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Casino Parking Lot Drug Drop
We’re booking it from Maryland to Ohio for an Airstream Factory appointment, so we picked an easy place to stay for one night—an option we knew about but hadn’t yet tried. Casinos are like many Walmarts, Cabelas, and Cracker Barrels: they know that people driving RVs are in their target audience and they have large […]
Escape from Alcatraz: Cicada Invasion
I’ve got a lot of stuff I want to tell you about but very few photos of people because I’ve been so busy. This is a major bummer, but I’ll work harder to remember to take photos before we leave this campsite. We’re at Greenbrier State Park in Maryland, a little northeast of Frederick, where […]
Never Judge a Campground by a Glance
When we pulled into our last campground near Manassas, Virginia, we were pretty pissed about the place. We were paying $50/night, and yet our site was merely feet from the campground road, with a rough gravel clearing beside it masquerading as the tent pad. Not what we’re used to. Turns out that that large gravel […]
Greetings from Civilization
We’re in NoVa (the Northern Virginia region, for you out-of-towners). Not to be confused with NOvA, the physics experiment at Fermilab, which my son reminds me is spelled not with a v but with a nu, which I got wrong in my last post. I’m grateful this blog is a team effort, seriously. What do […]
Homecoming (of a sort)
We made it to the first stop in our four-week tour of Virginia, Maryland, and D.C.: Richmond, my hometown. Kinda. I grew up in the countryside outside of Richmond, and the place has grown like wildfire since I left (like everywhere in the world, pretty much). As soon as we pulled in to our site, […]
The Quiet, Forested Campgrounds of the South
Today’s our final day at this state recreational area near Raleigh, North Carolina, and it marks the end of a string of really lovely campgrounds we’ve visited in the south. When we left Florida, we moved up through Georgia, then across South Carolina, and now up through North Carolina, and every single campground has been […]
Watching the Campground Channel
My friend and fellow Airstreamer, Sherri, called me out of the blue tonight to tell me about the campers next to them at Gulf Shores. Although she and her husband are camped several states away from Tracy and me right now, we’re going through usually about the same kind of thing. Her gripe was a […]
Following the Pollen Trail
After a week at the beach with friends, we continued our route north, this time northwest into central North Carolina, to a little state park campground in the woods, with hiking trails and plenty of springtime all around us. It’s been wild to follow spring unfolding as we head north—our first change in the seasons […]
This Place Takes the Cake (I Mean, the Sombrero)
This has to be the strangest campground we’ve ever stayed in. I was about to list previous strange ones to prove it, but, come on. Look where we are. You’ve seen the signs on I95 going to and from Florida. And, believe it or not, Tracy and I have both stayed here before (contrary to […]
