Solo Travel and Living on the Road in a Skoolie
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…
The old blog was what it like living in the middle of nowhere, refurbishing an old house, and mountain life. With new changes in my life, I decided to do something different. I’m living on the road full time now in a converted schoolbus. Penny and I are chasing the sun and living on the road in our skoolie.
For the last few years, I have made an annual pilgrimage to Iron Mountain Hot Springs, in Glenwood Springs, CO. It seems like I’m usually around 3 to 4 hours away from the place. It’s always a long drive over mountain passes, winding your way through slow-moving trucks and wide-eyed out-of-state drivers whose hands are…
Today I am faced with a decision. I feel Resistance in all its malevolent glory bearing down on me. I feel generations of getting in your own way pushing back, which is usually good cause to push me forward in some direction. Only today I feel frozen. Here’s my choice: I can go on an…
A buddy of mine and I had a conversation today. He was a couple beers in and asked me in all seriousness if I had ever been to Idaho Springs. I told him that I had. I told him about the time about five years ago when I got sick of sitting around by myself…
I-80 is a fast, and convenient way to go from point A to point B in a very short amount of time if you are traveling by interstate. Not so long ago, there weren’t any interstates. People either traveled by train or relied on a method of connect-the-dots to get from place to place. Large…
When I take a road trip, I try to live by the cliche of “It’s not the destination, but the journey.” Last Thursday night, I decided I was going to give myself a birthday present. For 46, the idea of sitting alone in the house with my thoughts was just not something I wanted to…
Cody Wyoming is a destination for not only the gateway to Yellowstone National Park, but also to a curated version of the Old West, a tradition which was started by showman Buffalo Bill Cody himself at the turn of the last century and has continued today. Cody is synonymous with the Old West, boasting a…