I wish I had a nickel for every time I asked a simple "where is the..." question, and got an answer to a different question. Ask most people, and any woman, where is...   more »

'Love at first sight' is a principle that doesn't seem to apply to geologic layers and me.   more »

...made me think of a pastoral life in the Basque country. You can hardly blame me for that since I am in the Colorado high country hiking and mountain biking with my dogs. Wouldn't a shepherd's life be more natural...    more »

Everything was so nice: the weather, scenery, geology and trails. Maybe that was the problem.    more »

How many years does it take for a full time RVer to finish downsizing? The current spat of downsizing was therapy more than utility: it distracted me from...   more »

Dogs have some kind of death wish when it comes to cliffs, or maybe it just seems that way to unstable bipeds like us. Both of my dogs love to walk up to the last foot of a cliff...   more »

Most of my RV was behind the driver's seat and out of view. I glanced at the maps and started thinking about this autumn's migration. I could still go through    more »

After eleven years of full time RVing I still fuss and stew about seasonal migrations, and when finally embarking on the geographical drama I literally feel a lump in my throat...   more »

Finding this campsite was satisfying at the time, but it was so subtle that its significance escaped me at first. We weren't hiking to burn calories...we were doing our job.   more »

I've often wondered how other RVers deal with the sophomore jinx. Let's say you visit a town for the first time and are swept off your feet with its off-beat charm. The next year you come back and find...   more »

And so we have a new dragon to slay. After a lot of web surfing it seemed hopeless to find a lighter trailer and fuel-sipping van or truck that could pull it. Finally I got excited about...   more »

Ironically it is easy to have mixed feelings about succeeding on a long term project. Life is so much more interesting with a dragon to slay.   more »

A ride or a hike is more fun when you only start with a vague goal, and then start guessing and making plans based on what you see.    more »

I do like my old mining towns a little bit weathered and decayed. The world has enough Tellurides and Bisbees.    more »

All of this happened right outside the bedroom window of my RV. It gets pretty rowdy at 2 a.m. when the Leadville saloons close.   more »

There was a time, early in my RV career, when I thought that being a full time RVer was mainly a matter of learning enough how-to tricks. What a fool I was.   more »