2021 Report and Yearly Reports

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I’ve just published my 2021 retrospective (wow, I’m so on point so far in 2022!). And to make it easier to find all my yearly reports (both on vagabond life and Alto trailer ownership), I’ve created a new Yearly Reports page. Quick links: 2021 retrospective and Yearly Reports You might wonder why you didn’t get an email directly from the 2021 Retrospective report. That’s because it’s a page, and not a blog post. And I can’t figure out how to send emails for pages in WordPress. So this little blurb of a blog post will do the same thing! The…

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There’s Always Another Holiday

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I know, we just got through the end of year holiday season. And hopefully, we all survived New Years and everyone’s 2022 is off to a good start. Mine has been kind of slow, which has been good. I’ve been reading a lot and napping. Until Monday afternoon, when I realized it’s less than 6 months till July 4 weekend. Which matters a lot to full-timers. Why? Read on…

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Bombay Beach, or Farewell to 2021

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One of the oddest places in California (and that is saying a lot…) has to be Bombay Beach. So it feels fitting to end the weird year of 2021 with this post. Maybe we’re all living in different versions of Bombay Beach in a matrix run by robot overlords or we’re all just characters in a video game (go see Free Guy if you haven’t yet, it’s hilarious)…

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Sending 2021 into the Sunset

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I had one absolutely gorgeous sunset while I was in California, so I’m using the end of the year as an excuse to publish the four shots I made as a series. As we approach the end of a difficult year for so many of us, enjoy the beauty of a Salton Sea sunset for a few minutes.

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Scenes from Arizona

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When I was a kid, the worst thing about going to visit my grandparents in Arizona was the desert. Ugh. So dry, so brown, so boring. All I can think now is that I just didn’t get the desert back then. Now I do. It’s beautiful in its own stark, understated way. I was just passing through this time, a few days getting from New Mexico out to California, so I didn’t visit any cool places or try to see people, although I did manage some family and friends in the Tucson area (thanks, Sherry, Judy & Joanne, and Keith…

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