In the past, when we talked with friends about our Airstream travels and someone asked about our favorite place, we used to scratch our heads. We’d been to so many diverse places; plus, what constitutes “favorite”? Most beautiful? Most fun? Most friendly? Best hiking, or best kayaking? To make things easier, I started picking Yukon, […]
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Following a Mahjong Trail across Virginia—or Was It Paris?
I had such a delightfully busy week in Virginia that I’m not sure exactly what I did there. Each day was packed with dining dates with different folks I was so happy to see, and my head and heart are still spinning, A few themes came through strong, though. (My AirBnB was outside the themes, […]
Morgan Freeman Led Us to Our Christmas Tree
If you think that’s click bait, I could have said closer to the truth that Morgan Freeman—as the voice of a pre-historic spearhead—led us through the visitor’s center for a marsh before we bought our Christmas tree, but where would be the fun of that? Snowy Day Trip Last week, Tracy planned for us a […]
Grateful and Proud: Writing-on-Stone
Here starts a new series in the blog (yes, I know, yet another, but I hope this one will stick). I’m calling it Grateful and Proud because it’s a retrospective of special places I’ve been in the Airstream, but not an “I’m so sad that I gave that up” but a “Yay look what I […]
What the Cool Kids Are Up To
I never run out of ways to write about spending time with my son, Finn, because he never runs out of cool stuff to share with me: fascinating work projects, interesting friends, off-the-wall hobbies. This past weekend I watched him do an experiment in a real science lab (science!), I went on a walk with […]
2025: Summer at Four Corners
Each year I’ve been on the road I’ve written a recap of our travels, and I’m not letting this one slide by without the proper Come Look at My Vacation Photos! post. We spent this spring and early summer at so many national parks, national monuments, and national forests in three of the Four Corners […]
Hauling Ass from Colorado to Wisconsin
A four-day trip across the plains, with Charlie Parr as our reward.
An Unlikely Landing Location
You may find this hard to believe, but of every location in this country we could live, I’ve chosen Madison, Wisconsin. (See my previous post on planning to stop traveling.) I swear, I’ve been thinking about a landing place for about three years. Everywhere on this map, we’ve stayed at least one night and we’ve looked around […]
Creeks, Waterfalls, River Crossings in SW Colorado
A fat marmot and a mountain iris American White Pelicans giving me a thrill (as always) above the Rio Grande Pyramid Banjo says Hey!
How to Capture the Colorado I See
A friend and I had a conversation about the genre of realism; we were talking about painting, but really what we said applies to photography and writing, I think. Our discussion: What is the value of realism in art, and how do you achieve it? Her first reaction was that realism in painting these days […]
