Solo Travel and Living on the Road in a Skoolie
The last of the desert drifted away behind me as I crossed into Idaho and its lava rock and hills which soon became mountains and sage brush, pine trees, and snow that lingered after the recent storms. I had seen snow in the high desert of New Mexico, not long after the crash. Someone hit…
By now, if you aren’t following because I am a full time traveller, living on the road with my dog, Penny, you might be surprised about the sheer amount of vanlife content on this blog. I can say a couple things with almost total confidence: this life isn’t easy and van life will not be…
The last few days I have been on the move. After nearly three weeks around Silver City, I set out for Hatch, NM, and what I remembered as the best green chile burger I’ve ever had in my life. That was six years ago and a coronavirus sounded like something you’d pick up from accidentally…
In college I liked a girl who looked like Alanis Morrisette. The one with the braids from the Ironic video. Back then, I began my trend of being tongue-tied when I liked someone, painfully shy, and completely disarmed whenever I was near someone I was interested in. She was an absolute doll. Funny thing though…
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…” This week hasn’t been all that great. After sitting through four days of dust storms in the New Mexico/Arizona desert, I headed up into the mountains of the Continental Divide between Lordsburg and Silver City. While making a turn to find a campsite, I was struck…
Today I definitely felt the Grind of life on the road. Even though I grew up in the Colorado mountains, just over the border from Wyoming–and all that blasting, blowing wind–there are days I just get sick of it. I’m near Safford, AZ right now, after having spent the last few months in the Yuma…
So you want to be a writer? I’ve been writing for a while. I got published in college three times, my Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years. These were all short stories and my Junior year, I was awarded Best in Fiction for the campus literary magazine. It would take years to learn that I actually…
It always starts off small. Of course it does. Viruses, bacteria, those little microbes that lurk on surfaces or are blown around by the wind. They can find you any time of year. If it’s anything the Pandemic taught us, you can take all the precautions you want, you can wash your hands until they…