J is always talking about how great this trip has been. Yeah, the scenery is beautiful but the long days in the van while she drives get me down after a while. I get cramps sitting in one position so I sleep on my bed in the back and then, when I can’t stand…
Hard to believe I have gone from the quiet woods in FL to living near the border in NM with a fun bunch of elders. Likewise, difficult to imagine being too busy to blog! This fluctuation seems to be my future – moving between quiet, reflective settings and a community of like-minded social folks who…
Been keeping busy with the details of establishing residency and getting ready for my summer volunteer work at Yellowstone. I have my NM driver’s license, but a glitch with the van title is drawing out the license plate/registration process. I have the title, but my “title number is not in the national database”, which means…
I am not exactly homeless. I just moved around during my working years and made a home for a while wherever I landed. Now, I travel fulltime in my RV. I started in the Midwest and then spent most of my adult years in the West: Colorado, Arizona, California, Wyoming, Idaho. When asked, Where…
Act One Date: mid-1970s Location: Tucson, AZ; Nogales; Puerto Penasco, Mexico I was a student at the University of Arizona. College was demanding, frustrating, all-consuming and, like any other serious student, I did not take much time for fun. Then, someone said, “Let’s go down to Mexico for lunch,” a reasonable and economic suggestion since…
Today, when Jane and I took our early morning walk, I asked for a turn at blogging. Why should she have all the fun? I have things to say. After 9 years together and listening to her endless audio books, I know about reading and writing. I am a literary dog by osmosis. So, Jane…
Greetings from my new-to-me RV community for singles. The website for Loners on Wheels (LoW) points out that this is not a dating community but a group of 50+ year old nomadic singles who want to socialize with others. Potlucks, outings, hiking, pizza night with wanderers just like me! However, if LoW’s target audience were younger…
I love the curiosity that resides in human minds and leads to new and interesting statistics. Curiosity compelled several researchers to determine how much our “stuff” weighs. You know, our books, kitchen ware, toys, clothes, bins of stuff in the garage and everything else we own. Here is what researchers at the University of Leicester…
Bayou la Batre clearly has French influence. The name means “Bayou of the Battery”, because the French constructed an artillery battery there in the late 1700s. So when I drove over to explore the fishing town, I was surprised to see an Asian grocery store. When I stopped to photograph commercial fishing vessels, I…
While in Florida for 3 months I had many reasons to dress each day, either in appropriate field clothes or something semi-professional for my ESL classroom days. On those days I even I combed my hair and wore clean shoes. Living now in Alabama island mode, I want nothing but the extreme comfort of jammies…