Exploring the American Landscape
Looking back through the archives here on the blog made me realize that I haven’t written one of these annual wrap-up posts since 2021 (though, to be fair, I did write a summary of our summer RV travels in 2022 which was chock-full of the usual driving / camping / cost statistics). The last two … Read more
After settling into our home base, our RV usage dropped dramatically. Our trips have been much shorter — our final camping trip to St. Augustine was just 5 days long — and the 25′ of cleverly-designed trailer space we appreciated for full-time RV travel is far more than we need for short trips. Plus, the … Read more
We had two goals for our travels in the summer of 2022: get away from the heat and humidity of Florida, and explore a part of the country that was new to us. How did we do? So-so. Heading north from Florida in mid-June, we encountered a massive heat wave that kept us roasting in … Read more
Although we barely changed our location, 2021 was still a year of big changes. We started off the year spending the month of January in the same private RV park where we languished for most of 2020. Then we moved the Airstream to live underneath our house-in-construction, where we enjoyed being on our own property … 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