When we were trying to find a house to buy, we looked at many beautifully restored old houses, and we even got it in our heads that that was exactly what we wanted. A perfect house. What we ended up buying is a bit of a Frankenhouse (not an exactly fair reference, but it’s a […]
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Confessions from a Sticks and Bricks
That last post I wrote was pretty lame: all the what and whens and none of the feelings behind our current transition. Here goes my attempt at getting back to my regular, emotionally driven writing style. Gee, aren’t you excited? You Can Now Buy Our Airstream I found it listed on Cofax, and what a […]
“Adjust”? Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That
Prepping for house closing, planning for renovations, buying stuff for the apartment and the house … egads this pretzel is making me thirsty.
This Porch Is Your Porch, This Porch Is My Porch (updates on the Airstream, the apartment, the house)
The Airstream, First It is now parked behind a locked, electrified fence in an auction lot. We left the keys inside as well as Tracy’s Airstream baseball cap. What should have been an end-of-life farewell was a torturous journey. There was so much miscommunication between the insurance company’s tow truck contractors and subcontracts that, after […]
On the Brink of Our Next Adventure
It’s been a grueling couple of months, for me at least. Tracy, ever the stoic, has remained calm, while my psyche has run a marathon over mountains and through swamps, chasing house after house. Behind us the whole way has been the charge of handing the Airstream to our insurance company. If the house hunt […]
The Magic Spell that Made the Airstream Grow and the Apartment Shrink
I’m sitting in the apartment on The Red Couch (capitalized because it’s the most expensive thing we’ve bought, a whole $100), very early in the morning during a thunderstorm. Tracy is sleeping and Banjo is anxiously sitting by his bedside, but, here in the school-spirit red living room, I’ve opened the vertical blinds to the […]
Yay for the Good People
I mean that universally in this time of craziness around our country; there are a few good people doing good works, still. Thank you if you’re one of them. In my little world, things are also gonna get crazy here. The trailer will be picked up sooner than we expected, so, for the couple of […]
Mystery Turns Measurable
Why I pulled the plug on the nomad life and why I’m still grieving for it.
Countdown to the Switcherooo
You know our move out of Tracy’s house into the Airstream was bumpy because it was right when Covid started. Of course, this move out of the Airstream into a sticks and bricks is looking also to be a long and windy road. We have experience with long and windy roads, though. (Yes, pun actually […]
Things I Want to Remember about Living in the Airstream
I’m sitting in my seat at the dinette very early this morning, looking around at the trailer while Tracy and Banjo sleep. I’m thinking about all the things I don’t want to forget in here, all the small aspects of daily life inside our home that I want to stay with me in my memories. […]
