Welcome to my nomad travel blog. I live in my Airstream, sometimes parked off-grid, sometimes in campgrounds, staying for a bit to explore and then moving on.
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We’ve had a handful of big changes here in the Tracy and Shelly (and Banjo) world, and they’re happening in a mixed-up, muddled-up order. I’ll tackle them one topic per post. Topic #1: I decided I’m done with life on the road. I wrestled with this decision for ages, thinking …
I have dreams of things I’m going to see in new places, but I’ve learned, of course, that the cool things you see are what you’re not expecting. For example, when I was in Alaska and in the Yukon summer before last, I had a lot of moospectations. I mean, …
Hiking along Hermosa Creek, near Purgatory Close up of Hermosa Peak (possibly) Crossing Hermosa Creek in the truck Above the confluence of the South and North Clear creeks, near Creede—not spectacular, but a short walk from the campground North Clear Creek Falls It’s a remarkably large waterfall for a creek …
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 …
West Slope Is the Best Slope is something people say who live on the Western Slope of Colorado, which I now know (because I’ve asked Tracy a million times) means west of the Continental Divide—and not east of it, which is called the Front Range. We were on the Western …
More recent posts (click here)
- Choosing a Normal Life after Living an Extraordinary One
- From Moosappointment to a Cowboy Count
- Creeks, Waterfalls, River Crossings in SW Colorado
- How to Capture the Colorado I See
- West Slope Is the Best Slope
- Lemme Tell Ya the Story of Mike, the Headless Chicken
- The Drama of Colorado National Monument
- While This, Then That
- Surrounded at Three Borders
- Campground Surprises at Dino
- Bone Jam and Ram Jam at Dinosaur National Monument
- Trying to Stay Amazed in Utah
- Arches, Moab, People
- Seeing Green in Canyonlands Nat. Park
- Life in the Valley of the Gods
- Goodbye for Now, New Mexico
- Chaco Culture
- Friendships on the Road
- What National Monuments Preserve
- When Housekeeping Is the Barrier-Breaker
- El Morro and El Malpais
- Western New Mexico via BLM Land
- Camping and Hiking along the Gila River
- “Cliff” Being the Operative Word in Gila Cliff Dwellings
- Life Deep in the Desert
- Moving Sunlight and Changing Focus at White Sands National Park
- Exhausted and Exhilarated
- The Hitch Is Now the Toilet
- Lifestyles of the Rebellious and Unattached
- Singer-Songwriter Smackdown While in Limbo
- Exactly Five Years on the Road!
- A Koan for Writing
- Hitch Quasi-Update and How Wild It Is that RVers Live in Different Ways
- Sitting Here in Limbo
- My Tea Set Regrets
- The Hitch in Our Plans Is Our Hitch
- Pulling Off an Airstream Surprise
- On the Road Again, But in a Hotel
- A Friday Night Rodeo, Moving Crystals in My Head, Tricky Houston Plans
- Our 2025 Travel Plans (Kinda)
Places
I used to keep up a travel map here with little color-coded icons that linked to blog posts I’d written from each place. The map got crowded and impractical after a while, so I’m now categorizing places as a way to indicate where we’ve been. National parks are such an …
Here a post from each state that 1) we’ve camped in and that 2) I’ve blogged about, at least as far as I can remember. Note: I tried not to include national parks, since they have their own page; ditto with Alaska, which I know is a state. Canada provinces …
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Other
Creating tiny houses from kits is a hobby I started in the Airstream because it’s small and quiet (so I can do it at night while I’m awake and Tracy’s asleep). I am now obsessed. Quick View of All Here’s a slideshow of nearly all the Tiny Houses I’ve made …
This is a series of personal posts about grief and family, by me and my guest writers. Some of these were very very hard to write, and friends tell me they’re hard to read. Others I wrote real quick-like, mainly to fill in gaps in my life and to reveal …
I’m fortunate to include frequent writers other than myself, occasional guest submissions, and sets of links to other blogs that are relevant to mine. Here are the regular contributors: Shana and Marcus Click here for all of Shana and Marcus’ posts. We are a post-pandemic retired duo who decided society …
