This blog needs a shake up. I thought I would be writing here about the strangeness of settling down, of buying everything from scratch, all that post-nomad stuff, but I’m thinking that’s really only interesting to me. If you’re on the road, you don’t care about the ins and outs of getting off the road […]
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Photos to Frame, Pt 2
I began posting photos from our past five years of exploring in this previous entry, and, voilà, here are more. The same caveats apply: I’m just a point-and-click photographer, and some of these I love only because of the memories they evoke. Along with the previous set, though, they begin to tell the story of […]
Photos to Frame, Pt 1
As we continue to juggle this complex transition, I’m enjoying the small task of sorting through photos of the past five years, picking out favorites and imagining them as part of our (dream) house in a variety of ways. Maybe a coffee table book, or a large wall of framed prints, or a small collage […]
Eyes of the World
Where a Grateful Dead song, a science theory by a futurist, and this blog all intersect.
Goodbye for Now, New Mexico
Yesterday, we pulled away from our campsite—looking out over the Angel’s Peak Badlands—and we headed north, out of New Mexico. For me, it was hard to say goodbye. At this last campsite, a spot Tracy chose for access to Chaco Culture, we were on BLM land looking at snow capped mountains in the distance, the […]
Singer-Songwriter Smackdown While in Limbo
We have semi-progress with the hitch, which is better than pseudo-progress and definitely better than a hitch in the hitch. The hitch company in Michigan is servicing the crucial bearing part of the old hitch, and Tracy has ordered new parts from them, so with the old parts and the new parts, he’s going to […]
A Koan for Writing
(Here’s a post unrelated to travel. The end is where I caption the above photo, which is the point of this post.) You know how one small thing someone says can amazingly ring true. Even if you’ve read about this thing a ton or you know about it theoretically, or whatever, you never really felt […]
Our 2025 Travel Plans (Kinda)
For the first time in five years, I’m going to share our travel plans for spring/summer/fall only broadly here. No detailed map with circles and arrows, no list with dates. Here’s: 1) why not, 2) our plan in broad strokes, 3) my new blog structure for presenting our travels. Seems like a jumble, but stick […]
Encounters with Neighbors
Eons ago, Blogging Mentor Mark asked if I’d write a post about the odd people I’ve met on the road. Good idea, right? I started in on it all excited, thinking, this will be the best retrospective post ever! I called it, “Strangers Stranger Than than Usual Strangers.” That post has been sitting in my […]
Blue Fabric Tiny House
Yes, I know. I’m always I’m saying, “No more tiny houses! I’m done with them!” and then I turn around and post about yet another one. I finished the last tiny house in June; that was the one I gave to my friend Mary Margaret’s niece, but even before that one, I’d thrown out my […]
