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I Like New Orleans Better
After Galveston we headed north, bound for New Orleans. We broke up the drive with a stop at one of...
5 months ago
After Galveston we headed north, bound for New Orleans. We broke up the drive with a stop at one of the gates of hell, located in Sea Rim State Park, Texas. Sea Grim as we call it. Do not go there. Ever. For any reason. We had to abandon the bus there that night and retreat to a...
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Christmas Cold
After a week at Grayton we moved down the coastline to our favorite place in the Florida panhandle,...
5 months ago
After a week at Grayton we moved down the coastline to our favorite place in the Florida panhandle, St George Island. This is the wildest, least developed area I know of down here. We've visited St. George more than any other spot in Florida and we never tire of it. We'd spend...
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St. Andrews
Leaving Fort Pickens made me a little sad. We've spent so much time here over the years its started...
2 months ago
Leaving Fort Pickens made me a little sad. We've spent so much time here over the years its started to feel like one of our many homes. But there are time limits. We can't stay any more this season, and with our current plans we probably won't be back for several years. I'll miss...
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Bus Work and Baseball
Our last few days on St. George between all of us we saw a Scarlet Tanager, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak,...
a month ago
Our last few days on St. George between all of us we saw a Scarlet Tanager, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, and an Indigo Bunting. The migrant birds were moving through. That's one of our cues that it's time to go. When the birds are headed north it's about time for us to do likewise.
A...
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Goodbye Florida
In the evenings the song of whippoorwills echoes on all sides. Spring peepers croak and creak in the...
3 weeks ago
In the evenings the song of whippoorwills echoes on all sides. Spring peepers croak and creak in the marsh reeds. Here and there through the trees I can catch a glimmering flicker of flames from a campfire. Only the truly committed are having fires in this heat. The air is still...
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The Lost Coast
Driving west on Florida's highway 98 is a little like traveling back in time. It's hard to believe...
a month ago
Driving west on Florida's highway 98 is a little like traveling back in time. It's hard to believe standing amidst the crowds of Panama City Beach, but not ten miles east, once you pass through the actual Panama City, the crowds disappear, along with everything else.
After...
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Gone Fishin'
Every morning when I step outside I am greeted by a chorus of ospreys circling in the glint of the...
2 months ago
Every morning when I step outside I am greeted by a chorus of ospreys circling in the glint of the rising sun. There are between four and six of them, depending on the day. They spend their days fishing, building nests, and fighting. Every evening, sitting out by the fire as dusk...
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Before The Storm
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Water Under The Bridge
Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was...
a month ago
Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was that the campground at St George was full for Friday night. One night missing in a string of twelve nights. We knew that when we came out here, but I was really hoping something...
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Photo Shoot
After shining up the bus in Rocky Bayou we headed back over to Fort Pickens where we were scheduled...
3 months ago
After shining up the bus in Rocky Bayou we headed back over to Fort Pickens where we were scheduled to meet up with a photographer who was shooting the bus for an article I wrote for Wired magazine. Both Wired and I wanted us to be out west for the photo shoot, but that didn't...
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Notes From The Road
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Pensacola History
From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge,...
4 months ago
From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge, Big Lagoon. From our campsite there it was a short car ride to Perdido Key, which is another part of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Although it takes the better part of two hours...
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Fort Pickens
Just before new year's, Corrinne and the kids rejoined me at Big Lagoon. We had a quiet new year's...
4 months ago
Just before new year's, Corrinne and the kids rejoined me at Big Lagoon. We had a quiet new year's around the fire, and then the next day we headed out to the Fort Pickens portion of Gulf Islands National Seashore.
If St. George is the best spot in the panhandle, Fort Pickens is...
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Going Up North
Eight days of travel. Six days driving. 1508 miles from the shores of St George Island to the shores...
a week ago
Eight days of travel. Six days driving. 1508 miles from the shores of St George Island to the shores of Lake Superior.
It was too fast. I knew it was too fast, but we wanted to get out of the heat. I was ready for the toll it takes on us, but I was not prepared for the toll it...
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What Vanlife is Really Like
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to...
2 weeks ago
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to cruise around in an old vehicle, living the life, um, yeah, not all the time. Some of the time, sure. Maybe even most of the time, but there's a good bit of work to be done on the...
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Bus and Repair Q & A
I got a lot of questions about the bus, life on the road, repairing things, and more. I will...
2 weeks ago
I got a lot of questions about the bus, life on the road, repairing things, and more. I will probably write something up as well at some point, but for now I thought I'd make a video to answer a few of the more frequently asked questions.
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Renaissance Fair
One of the things I find most peculiar about our current pop culture worldview is the utter...
2 months ago
One of the things I find most peculiar about our current pop culture worldview is the utter disregard for the past. The past is a far away thing that is almost always a-thing-you-are-so-lucky-you-don't-have-to-live-in.
Step outside that increasingly tunneled vision the media...
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Family
After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
3 months ago
After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach.
Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
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Eight
After New Orleans we hightailed it to Florida, looking for some warmer beaches. Our first stop was...
5 months ago
After New Orleans we hightailed it to Florida, looking for some warmer beaches. Our first stop was Grayton Beach, where we spent Elliott's birthday -- in the white sands with afternoons warm enough to swim.
The sunsets were pretty spectacular too. We'd go down in the evenings,...
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Wagoneer
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed...
3 months ago
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
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