Exploring the American Landscape From Our Airstream
Shannon 
It’s been a while since our last construction update, but that is not because of a lack of progress. The house has been a veritable beehive of activity inside and out. Major accomplishments over the last few months include finishing the HVAC work, having all our insulation blown in, and getting the exterior siding and … Read more
It has been a great joy the last several years (2018 here, 2019 here) to finish off the year by putting together a random assortment of facts and figures to help tell the story of our year. In 2020, with such a truncated travel season, it doesn’t seem worthwhile to put together numbers like “miles … Read more
I recently mused to friend and fellow travel blogger Laurel that no one wants to read a blog post about picking out bathroom faucets. She disagreed, so here goes nothing.* In my first construction post about our new home, I mentioned all the choices we encountered when working with our architect on the house plans. … Read more
As we learned during our four weeks of volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Colorado last summer, framing is the most rewarding part of house building. In just a few weeks a bare foundation and a pile of lumber take on the shape of a house — albeit the stick-figure outline of a house drawn … Read more
Just for fun, here is a nonexclusive list of things that are definitely not good for our mental health: Spending long hours cooped up in our trailer because of stifling heat and humidity outside. Going outside to exercise left us sweat-drenched and dehydrated, while staying inside made us feel lazy and claustrophobic. Checking weather sites … Read more