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 […]
Types of RVs
You all know I love this guy who makes a podcast for insomniacs, Sleep with Me. He basically just rambles on for an hour in a really boring way, but funny or weird (mostly both) enough to keep you from hating him, so you keep listening and then fall asleep. One of his formats (not […]
Interior Improvements, Cont’d
Yeah, that photo above has nothing to do with this post. But I’m tired of thinking about inside, probably like most of you. I know that those of us stuck at home are lucky to have a home to be stuck in, and some of us are fortunate to be working from home and not […]
Mystery of the Park Model, Solved
If this were a hard-core journal-style blog, I’d write about how Banjo’s one “character flaw” bubbled up yesterday. See, she has anxiety over most stranger dogs (not all), and she used to have to deal with that on every walk in the city. But here she seems to be chill about them … until a […]
Insomnia in a Small Space
Editor’s note: This is a real-time post, so to speak, so all photos were taken in the dark with low lighting. That’s my excuse, anyway. You guys know I am a terrible sleeper and always have been. Back when I lived in a house (oh, way back before retirement and the coronavirus and life in […]
Easy to Clean; Hard to Clean
Here’s another non-travel-related post, more like an answer to a faq. Tracy tells me I’m going to run out of topics before this quarantine is over, but truth be told I’ll run out of interesting topics. Consider yourself warned. In any case, like a lot of people stuck in their homes right now, I’ve been […]
Favorite Doodads in the Trailer, Cont’d
This post is brought to you by a rainy day in quarantine. I’ve mentioned earlier that Airstreams are beautiful inside and out, but when they’re new they’re like model homes: decorated blandly. (Well, all but the Tommy Bahama models, which I would go bezerkers living in full-time but would love for a weekend getaways. They […]
