Alto-versary #3

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A little over four years ago, I put money down on a lightweight trailer. I had the crazy idea to quit my full-time job and wander around the country. I was burned out and in serious need of a life reboot. Three years ago, on May 2, I picked up that trailer, an Alto 1743 hand-made by Safari Condo. I’d never towed a thing, didn’t really get how the wide mirrors worked, and I definitely couldn’t back that thing up. But my mother had raised me to think I could do anything I put my mind to, so I had…

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Update: Apr 24, 2019

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Most of the time, I do errands while Breeze is back at the campsite because it’s way easier to negotiate shopping and parking lots with just a car. Sometimes, though, it makes more sense to stop at a store on the way from one campground to another. Last week was one of those times: I was picking up a new AT&T hotspot at a Best Buy in Augusta, Georgia, which was about 1/3 of the way to my new campground. Bella and Breeze got to hang out under one of the two little trees in this massive parking lot while…

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Update: Apr 17, 2019

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This week was all about light and color and staying in one place for seven days. I landed at a Corps of Engineers park on Lake Thurmond, which spans the border of Georgia and South Carolina. I camped in South Carolina but all my errands were done in Georgia this week! The lake had me at sunset the first night I was here. Big sky, reflections, clouds, all the stuff I love.  The most enjoyable feature of my campsite was that I could launch my kayak from the water just below me. This is the view from my trailer… ……

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Spring Greens

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Today’s post is brought to you by the color GREEN. It’s one of my favorite colors: teal, turquoise, turquoise, lime, emerald, seafoam, sage, mint. There’s no shade of green that I can’t love.  But, and this is the point of my post, nothing says green like the showy early leaves of Spring.   I’ve been camping in forests the last few weeks and I walk around every day with my mouth hung open at the explosion of green that surrounds me. I grew up in LA, people, and spring was NEVER like this. As my Brit friend would say, I’m gobsmacked…

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Sunday Serenity: Light

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Light can mean so many things: lighten your load, lighten up, see the light, light-headed, light-hearted, light a fire under someone, and so on. It wasn’t till I spent time in the South that I realized that the light has another meaning: a lush, soft illumination that feels distinctly Southern.  Maybe it’s the moisture in the air, or the fact there there is so much water everywhere: lakes, rivers, streams, and that stuff that falls from the sky. A lot. (As I write this, I’m in the middle of an afternoon-long tornado watch, so rain is on my mind.) Reflections…

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