It’s been a week since my spectacular one-woman bicycle accident—amazingly, along a straight-away on a paved road—that somehow screwed up my knee. The more I think about it (it’s been a long week), the more I have no idea how I managed such a Charlie-Chaplinesque move. One minute I was zooming along, wondering about those […]
Airstreams Are Not Crutch-Compatible
I’ve been using crutches for less than a week now, so I hardly have room to complain. I’d like to; I surely feel like complaining. But seeing as how so many people I know have endured knee injuries, the only legit angle I have for whining is the pain in the ass that is living in […]
Best of 2023
I love putting these compilation posts together! Each year I’m amazed by how many places we lived in just that one year and how freaking far we traveled. This year we went from southern Texas, up through Central U.S., into Canada, around Alaska, then back again into the U.S. and down to Texas. It was […]
Santa Had a Sleigh Wreck
I was riding my bike back from the mailroom here at the RV park in Brownsville, with a couple of Christmas packages strapped to my basket (and by “strapped” I mean teetering one on top of the other behind me, no actual strap involved). The boxes started to shift, I did an ill-considered twist to […]
The Sitch at the Resort
“Winter Texans” is what people call themselves—people who come down here from the Midwest, mostly (some Canadians), and stay at their RV place for three months, hanging with other Winter Texans. I was planning on writing about cultural isolationism in this park, but, you know what? I’ve been here only a week, so I’ll wait […]
For Itinerants, We Sure Settle Down Well
I’d forgotten that a friendly Canadian gave me her tiki bar sign right off her campsite post in Alberta a couple of summers ago. Here, in the Tip o’ Texas, we’ve been unpacking storage spots in the Airstream that I didn’t realize we had (which is saying something) and finding things like tiki bar signs […]
Spur-of-the-moment Upgrade
So, we’re an hour away from Brownsville, and while Tracy’s driving, I do a little research, make a couple of calls, and, presto, we change where we’re staying this winter. And I sure hope it’s an upgrade; it certainly costs more. The trouble with last year’s mobile home park is that the decent campsites (aka happenstance […]
Things to Look Forward to in Brownsville
Today is our last day on the road for the winter, so I’m thinking positively about Brownsville, at the Tip o’ Texas. It’s where we spent last winter, and Tracy loves it there. I am going to learn to. I was actually getting the hang of the place at about the end of the three […]
Mom’s Sea of Words
This entry is part of my personal series on grief, called Wish You Were There, that’s unrelated to travel. It’s been a long while since I wrote in this series, but Marcus texted me this morning saying that my mom sounded like she’d been cool, and by god she was. Then I looked at my […]
Overactive Stranger-Reader Alert
I’ve never sought out readers here; I even clicked a box to keep this website from popping up when anyone googles it. You know that I started writing it only as a way to keep friends in the loop with where we were. So, I don’t have a lot of readers. I dunno, maybe 50 […]
