• Explore & Adventure

    A Summer Without Adventure

    I didn’t even let COVID stop me, packing the kids into the car and dragging that trailer through all 48 states and up into Canada. We’ve had some epic adventures. I say this a lot to people. I love travel, talking about travel, planning travel, finding amazing…

  • Explore & Adventure

    The Changing Sky

    Flying over America you watch snaking rivers, pointed mountains, large deserts sprinkled with towns, and patchwork farms slide underneath. Of course, mostly you read or distract yourself from the journey, peering out only now and then to get your bearings below. Driving, however, is different. You have…

  • House & Toys

    The Cleaning Supplies Closet

    One thing about living in a house, you have space for things. Sometimes, these are nice things to have, like a normal size broom. On the boat, I had a handheld vacuum and a hand broom. In the house, I not only have full-sized versions of both,…

  • Explore & Adventure,  Learning

    Up We Go

    “Your plane.” An RV-8 is a sports car of an airplane if there ever was one. And this one was set up for formation aerobatics. At the moment, however, I was in command as my boss was nose deep in the auto pilot computer. Not that I…