It’s Christmas Eve here in Brownsville, and I’d planned on going to the cocktail party at the RV park clubhouse this evening, but the holiday blues are upon me. It doesn’t help that I cleaned everyone out of pocket money during Card Bingo last night in a freak string of beginner’s luck and now don’t […]
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Still Catching Our Collective Breath
I haven’t been my usual chatterbox self here on the blog because there hasn’t been much to report. Except! For big news! (Oh how easily I forget.) My knee is finally better! I found a chiropractor willing to do a modified set of jerks; he was more conservative than the guy in Wisconsin about the […]
Our Impossible 11-hour Travel Day
After I wrote that Alice’s Restaurant post, a lot happened. We didn’t get fined for staying on the beach an extra day, but the opposite happened: we kinda wished the cops had stopped by our trailer, and we wished that twice. Thanksgiving Night 7 pm: Tracy was watching football and I happened to look out […]
Wherein We Act Out Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
You know the story: Arlo and friends clean up after a Thanksgiving feast at Alice’s church-turned-house and end up getting arrested for throwing their trash off a cliff, which plays a role years later in a pretty ironic situation when Arlo’s being drafted for the Vietnam War. He says to the draft sargeant, “You mean […]
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 […]
🎶 I’m Back in the Saddle Again 🎤
I’ve sung this many times when we’ve gotten back on the road after a long stay in one place, but this time I mean it in a bunch of ways. Saddles One saddle I’m back in is a literal saddle, the one on my bike, finally. After basically six months of waking up early to […]
What Severe Weather Means for Us
I don’t think about big bad weather unless it’s right on top of us, so I’ve never written about it in general. After OG blogger Mark asked me about it (several times, sorry, dude!), I realized it’s been a bigger factor in our lives than I thought. So, here’s a retrospective of weather we’ve ridden […]
What Does Comfort Mean?
We’ve been spending a week in a house, a real house, with a life-size kitchen and hot running water and actual bedrooms with doors that close and a hair dryer in the bathroom. A hair dryer! In other words: comfort. Yes, I’ve really enjoyed this house. The soft sofa, especially welcome the day after we both got […]
The Nomad Fitness Struggle
I’m sitting here writing a blog entry on the sofa instead of doing a workout, which speaks to a universal problem with fitness, right? Laziness. I think that’s why routine really gets me into working out, and it’s why it’s so hard to maintain a fitness schedule on the road. Routine is a total bitch. […]
The Surprise of Right Angles
I’m typing this in Finn’s vacation condo on South Padre Island. If you need to catch up here: My son Finn rented a couple of condos back to back for his big break from school, both on the island near where I’m spending the winter in Brownsville, Texas. The first one had only one bedroom, […]
