Lessons from Isolation

Tracy says it’s been ten days only that we’ve been camping without cell signal, and in truth it’s not been more than two consecutive days, since we’ll drive out to download email pretty frequently.  But when I check my calendar and my social soul, it feels for sure like three weeks.  Maybe all summer?  When was it I […]

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When the Wow Is Ho Hum

Just about this time a couple of years ago, Tracy and I were sitting in his living room in Maryland, watching the YouTube channel of Airstreamers we liked to watch. They were pulling into this exact Florida state park we’re in now (Tomoka, north of Daytona).  On the TV, as this couple backed their trailer […]

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Why I Do This

This is where we live this week. It’s just a site by a lake, in the woods, on the upper peninsula of Michigan. Nothing exotic: it’s not the Keys or the Utah Arches, just a lake.  But reflecting on this spot this morning once again confirmed why I’m living this challenging lifestyle. Travel days are […]

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Living Between Two Worlds

I feel like I’m in a Star Trek episode where the transporter has malfunctioned (in the future no one says, “broken”), and I’m stuck between two planets.  It’s not as bad as the time in The Next Generation when Geordie and Ro got stuck walking around the Enterprise like ghosts and had to figure out […]

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