I read somewhere that pilots of small planes are always on the lookout for where they could land in an emergency: a country road, an open field, or similar spots. The last few weeks, I’ve felt a bit like that, changing plans as the weather has changed (from bad to worse…) as I travel down…
Year: 2019
Grateful: 2019 Edition
If the first year or so of my vagabond life was all about hitting the road and seeing the sights, this year was all about connecting with friends and meeting new ones. I stepped out of my comfort zone twice in a big way, for a writers conference in March and an RV women-only gathering…
Sunday Serenity: Redwood Cathedral
There are sacred spaces built by humans: the ancient ruins at Stonehenge, the majesty of Chartres Cathedral in France, the great Pyramids of Giza. And then there is Earth’s cathedral: the soaring heights of trees in forest, creating a canopy of shelter lifted skyward by massive limbs and the trunks that support them. Photographs cannot…
Closing the Loop
I made it back to Kalaloch this fall, the campground where I started my full-timing vagabonding three years ago on September 1, 2016. So much has happened in that three years that trying to write about it has kind of stopped me in my tracks. I can use my campsites then and now as a…
Coasting Along in Oregon
The southernmost coast of Oregon, that stretch right above the border with California, is one place I hadn’t explored before so I corrected that oversight last week on a day trip through as many day use places as I could cram into one trip. I took along my Sony A7 (aka “the big camera”) with…