Our friends took this picture (thanks Bob and Ben, I think) during last night’s Friday Night FaceTime Happy Hour. We were so busy watching new people pull in to the campground that we had to be shown how annoying we were being on FaceTime. But, can you tell by our expressions how excited we are […]
Kayaking the Great Ruth Ann
Finally, we went kayaking. Frankly it was a bit of a disappointment! A Little Backstory You guys know that Tracy is a serious kayaker. He used to take a solo trip for a month each year down a different stretch of the Mississippi, with all his gear stowed in the tiny boat compartments, camping on […]
Newlyweds Quarantine in a Trailer
That’s a hilarious headline. Or it would be if the real story weren’t during a dire pandemic. Or—less important, but specific to us—when we had planned on traveling with the trailer, or at the least being outside the trailer, but are stuck inside in an unusually cold, wet, and dangerous world. So to that headline […]
Dumpster Update
People’s relationship to trash still baffles us here. All of Tracy’s and my trash—and I mean all (there is no recycling that we can find)—still adds up to one plastic grocery bag per day. I don’t know how we’re doing it, but that’s it. Amount and Timing And yet other people pull up to the […]
Wildlife Update
Big news in the pastime of Wildlife Spottting for us, although not as we would have expected it. We were driving home from an exciting trip having picked up groceries curbside at Walmart when Tracy perilously braked and pulled the truck as close to the edge as you can get on these curvy, shoulder-less country […]
How This Blog Works (and Doesn’t)
I created this blog back when I began telling people about us leaving eminently; so many friends asked me to let them know where I would be, and writing here seems like the best way to do that. And I started populating it as soon as I thought of it because I was so excited […]
Consumerism on the Road
This is an uninteresting but complex topic, made more so by the pandemic. I’ll explain but I won’t promise you’ll enjoy the read. Gearing Up for Our New Life Back in November when Tracy got word that he could retire earlier than planned, we changed our purchasing focus. The new plan: No more buying anything […]
One-month Anniversary
As of today it’s been one month exactly since: I retired from the magazine. We left our house in Maryland. We started our dream of living in the Airstream. We parked here at this campground in Virginia, not realizing we’d be here much longer than a weekend (kind of like a three-hour tour). There’s a […]
Meanwhile, Back at the Campground
Spring is finally starting here in the woods, and the campground crew (Mr. and Mrs. Campground and Family) are still working hard as if hoards of people will pull up any minute and demand perfectly manicured campsites and activity centers. Well, with the small crew here nothing’s perfectly manicured, but sites are being upgraded, grass […]
Campground Wildlife
Those of you who live in the country will make fun of my enthusiasm here, but it’s been ages since I’ve lived in the middle of nature, and each time I spot an animal I haven’t seen in a while I get all excited and rub my hands together. Birds Tracy’s had his eyes to […]
