Solo Travel and Living on the Road in a Skoolie
If you have been watching any number of travel shows, you might be under the impression there are only two extremes when traveling abroad. The Youth Hostel and the Luxury Hotel. You might find that your dreams of seeing the world are limited by cost when you look at home much a hotel room goes…
I’ve been boondocking in the same area for the last three weeks. There’s a couple reasons for doing this. First of all, I have a limited income and gasoline is expensive. Second, I have lots of work that needs to be done and when you are on the road for hours at a time, it…
As inevitable as pumpkin spice…everything, summer has become a smoldering bed of embers, a pale comparison to what it once was only a few weeks ago. In the morning, the dog bowl has iced over. The days are windy and the sound of leaves dancing across the road are the new music of the wind….
I’m taking the trip back on the Galway to Dublin train. A young man from Cork sits across from me. I don’t know his name, but I know his girlfriend’s. She is called Sinéad. I know this because her name is tattooed across the back of one of his hands. My temporary traveling companion is…
Many ancient civilizations believe that the Underworld is a realm of profane, twisted creatures, immortals dabbling in unholy practices, and beings with gaping, slavering jaws to devour your soul. The underworld is also attributed to the realm of faeries, the Other, and the sidhe. I had never been to Carlsbad Caverns, NM, but once I…
Solo travel is a journey of the soul as much as it is of the body. Maybe even more. When you travel alone, you don’t have the leverage to center your experience around someone else. Someone’s comfort. Someone’s expectations. Someone’s goals. Or someone else’s ego. It’s 100% about you. Which can be frightening but at…
I’ve been at this site for the last two nights. I can’t complain. It’s a free camping in Farmington, New Mexico. Just north of the Glade Run recreation area sits a small ten site BLM campground. No day use fees. A vault toilet and cement pads with gazebos and picnic tables. An iron fire ring…
Currently, no pun intended, my bus is running a 250watt solar panel with two 12v 100amp Lithium Iron batteries. For a couple weeks I was fighting my electrical system. Honestly I had no idea what I was getting into with solar power. Solar is promoted as being this incredible thing that is going to save…