We may get rain today in the Sonoran Desert just south of Ajo, AZ, and if it’s more than just a drizzle, it’ll be the first rain we’ve ever seen in the desert, and I’m pretty stoked. The washes (dry “river” beds) might fill with running water, and we might see blooms on cacti and ocotillo […]
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Cave Troll Plots Escape from Mars
Okay, maybe I’m taking these metaphors too far. But a travel blogger who finds herself stationary in a near-lifeless desert and then gets stuck in her bedroom, thus reducing her world to a smaller sphere than her readers’, has to resort to colorful language. The good news behind all the flourish is that this cave […]
I’ve Become a Cave Troll
I am feeling better than the last time I posted, really I am. At five days after the onset of covid symptoms, my symptoms were mostly better, and I’m fever free. I was even a little optimistic. And then I took another at-home covid test. My sample showed positive so quickly and clearly that at […]
Isolating in 60 Square Feet
No one wants to hear details about someone being sick (eww), but you may be interested in how Tracy and I are trying to isolate from each other in the 200-sq-ft trailer, as I’ve caught the Omicron virus and, so far, Tracy’s not showing any symptoms and certainly doesn’t want to catch it from me. […]
Errand Day from the Road
I wrote this post the day before coming down with symptoms of Omicron, so I probably had it then and didn’t know it. Note that I wore an N95 mask each time I went inside a public place and never pulled it down. Oh, to have been so ignorant of oncoming Yuck! Head to Town […]
The Is-That-Person-Dangerous Game
Here’s an aspect of living on the road that people don’t talk much about. I’ve written previously about how weird it is to be always the stranger in a strange land, but today I’ve been thinking about what it’s like to be surrounded by strangers. Always trying to guess: Is this person walking by my […]
A Love Letter to Our Tent
Dear QUIK-SET (sic) tent, How fondly I remember the day you entered our lives. We were in the middle of our first summer on the road, in Iowa where you were delivered to our friends in Elkader. Just look at how fresh and young you were that day. Allow me two asides, dear Tent. 1) […]
Calm Days, Dramatic Skies
Yes, we’re still at Imperial Dam LTVA, where not much is happening. It’s so quiet here, in fact, that this morning when the weather was warm and the wind mild, I totally forgot to go to yoga. The mind stretches out across these views, and you lose track of everything. We’re waiting here as we […]
A Nomadic Life on Our Couch
Yes, it’s still relatively chilly and very windy here at Imperial Dam LTVA, near Yuma, AZ. We’ve been spending a lot of time in the trailer, which not one of us is excited about, but Tracy endures it with more stoicism than either Banjo or I. Quiet Inside I’ve been reading (I just started the […]
Indecision about Long-Term Camping
Just this morning as I was walking Banjo along the desert road, looking for burros and enjoying the peaceful sunrise, I had decided that this Imperial Dam LTVA is a smart place for us to stay put for a while. An hour later, inside the trailer when Tracy says he may have found us a […]
