We left Florida yesterday, after two months that have seemed both brief and interminable. This has not been an easy visit. My parents have lost ground since we were here last year, both physically and mentally. It is a gift of our fulltime travels that we’re able to spend a chunk of time with them […]
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We’re in the mountains of West Texas, where it’s currently 22 degrees and the landscape is decorated with hoar frost. It is REALLY cold, but it looks very festive. I know that January 1st only has as much meaning as we ascribe to it. Nonetheless, there’s something about the dawning of another year that always […]
We’ve been fulltime travelers for five-and-a-half years now. Every year, we circle back to our hometown in southern Oregon for a few weeks to ready ourselves for another year of travel. No matter how organized we think we are, it’s always a tornado of activity: various appointments, projects on our trailer, maintenance on our home, […]
We’ve been on Lopez Island since the first of July, happily ensconced in our summer camp hosting gig. Meanwhile, our blog is far away, both in time and distance. It’s a bit daunting when I think of being so far behind. Much worse is when I start comparing myself to other bloggers. Bloggers who stay […]
Five years ago this month we left our home in Oregon to embark on this nomadic adventure. Five years! It seems like the blink of an eye. Time has always seemed to go too swiftly for my taste. Traveling, it seems to go by even more quickly. I remind myself to be present for this […]
I’ve had a post on Big Bend National Park almost finished for about two weeks. Meanwhile, I’m more than two months behind on our blog. I don’t like being so far behind. But the past couple of months, life has taken precedence over blogging. We’ve been in Florida since the first of February and just […]
Although our blog is still lingering on Vancouver Island, we’re pausing for a moment in the present to wish you a joyous holiday season. The past few weeks we’ve traveled from the Pacific Northwest, down the coast of California, to our current location of West Texas. One of the fun things about traveling at this […]
As of yesterday, we’re on the road again. After the inevitable flurry of activity that accompanies trip preparations, we woke up well-rested this morning to a gorgeous sunrise at Black Butte Lake, in the golden oak-studded hills of northern California. We’re headed south for the winter, wending our way down the California coast and across […]
As of Saturday, we’re on the road again. YAY!!! To be perfectly honest, that’s “yay” with some sadness and regret at leaving our beautiful hometown and our wonderful community of friends in Ashland. Leaving this time, after seven months, was almost as difficult as the first time we pulled out of town four years ago […]
Autumn in our hometown of Ashland, Oregon is truly a thing of beauty. For a leisurely stretch of several weeks, the valley is painted with rich reds and golds, the weather is generally perfect, and the holiday season is ushered in with the most outrageous Halloween parade and street party imaginable. We usually return home […]
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