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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I’m just not good at providing factual info about places that other people know about, so I’ll tell you about my impressions. One of the dramatic “fins” created when the underlying salt bed under the region of Arches National Park shifted and thrust rock upward. (Actually, this might be a …
Canyonlands is a big national park in southern Utah that we’re tackling in sections; we’re camped near the south section now and we’ll move to the north section tomorrow. It’s got a lot of interesting rock formations, petroglyphs and pictograms, but—big deal to us now—a lot of green. It’s been …
Valley of the Gods was part of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah when Obama designated it; Bears Ears was the first national monument created by request of and with input from Indigenous tribes. The protected land size was reduced under Trump, restored under Biden, then reduced under Trump again, …
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 …
You hear about this place. But there’s no preparing for it. It’s certainly not just another stop on a tour of Puebloans’ ancestral villages. I could tell you random facts that struck me, such as that the smallest room in one of the “main houses” was found by archaeologists to …
More recent posts (click here)
- 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)
- Encounters with Neighbors
- Prepping for the Road
- Blue Fabric Tiny House
- You Might Be a Full-timing Airstreamer If …
- Dreaming of My Kind of Boondocking
- The Feel of India in the RGV
- How to Take a Campground Shower in 10 Easy Steps
- For Us Winter Texans
- On Grief, Nonattachment, and Beauty
- The Nomad Witching Hour Is Upon Us
- How Many Stories Can We Tell?
- Tangled up in Lyrics
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 (page coming) …
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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 …
