You probably already know what I recently learned: “snowbirds” is what you call retired people who live up north but spend their winters down south, Florida or Arizona pretty much. This means we’re not snowbirds (we plan on spending all our summers and winters where it’s moderate!), but we’re blending in quite nicely with those […]
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Insomnia in a Small Space Update
(Not Really; Just More of the Same) Back in April I wrote here about how I try to deal with my chronic insomnia in the Airstream. Thank you, insomnia (not)—here is a seven-month update to being awake in a tiny space when everyone else is asleep. Banjo Hates Me Back then, Banjo used to sleep […]
All About Our Solar System
Blog disclosure: Tracy likes to stay hands-off here. In fact, he reads the blog only when he happens to be sitting around with time on his hands and his laptop in front of him, and he’s already read the rest of the Internet. (Believe me, he reads a lot). Every now and then, he apologizes […]
Psyched about Solar and Our December Campground
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
