Solo Travel and Living on the Road in a Skoolie
by Clinton A. Harris, published in Big Life Magazine, Summer 2021 Titled: Simple Pleasures: a Father and Son’s Road Trip Through the Pacific North West The inside of my Jeep is a collection of empty pop bottles, chip bags, coffee cups, and yellow Labrador fur drifting through the air. My seven month old pup, Penny,…
The last couple of days have been a struggle, fighting burnout as a digital nomad. I don’t know if it’s just the time of year or something else, but I’ve been feeling that sensation like the walls are closing in on me lately. Or it could just be that I’ve been at the same camp…
This is a subject that probably learns more into the realm of being personal than I should probably get into, but it is a reality of life on the road. Just as it is with anyone that is single and keeping their options open to meeting new people. Either new friends or something more. Dating…
Anytime I think about getting another tattoo, I ask myself where could I fly with the cost of that chunk of permanent artwork. It always stops me dead. It isn’t that I’ll be stuck with wearing something on my skin for my whole life. When I go places, that leaves an indelible mark in my memory. Deciding…
I was talking with a friend the other day. She hasn’t been out of the country but still daydreams about taking that big solo trip on her own. Like I was, there are a lot of “buts” that came up in the conversation that kept getting in the way: Expense. Time. Age. Getting a passport. The…
My wheels pop and crunch on the gravel pathway that runs impossibly straight through a dense forest of lodgepole pines and aspen. Despite it being a mountain pass at around 9,000 ft. above sea level, the railroad grade of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail is very flat. To accommodate the old locomotive engines, anything more…
Carry-on only travel also means you can travel light, without dragging wheeled luggage through airports and train stations. Everything you have for the trip fits in your backpack. Here’s my easy solo travel packing list. Adjust it to your own needs. The main idea is the same: make sure the stuff you carry around with…
When I started with this journey, I set an idea in my mind of how I wanted the bus to be. Since I began at the beginning of September, the bus has continued to evolve. One of the best things about skoolie builds is how you can truly make them your own. Try that in…