My stripper name is ‘Chigger Bait’

Simply stepping forward into possibilities, I've found, often leads to joy...

A departure, some #9 shot & ‘picking fly shit out of black pepper’

It was just 25 days ago that they arrived here for a week-long stay, and now they're officially Ozarkansans...

Surprised again

We had no idea.

We just weren’t looking

Driving from Shelby to Great Falls to Billings last September, we were unaware that we'd rolled right through the heart of America's land-based nuclear arsenal...

Campgrounds: Our recommendations

I apologize that it's taken me a couple of months to pull this together, but I'm ready to share...

Gallery: ‘Workmanlike, utility travel’

This collection of images is a confession of sorts...

The gift of presence

At some point I left behind the desperate need to be somewhere else, doing something else...

One full day in Iowa

There's an ample supply of joy in these weeks of "utility travel" after all...

‘Y’know, you really oughta keep a journal’

Yesterday we did chores, ran errands, reprovisioned for the final week or so of travel and washed the mud off Mercy...

Wyoming blows

We're back in Wyoming. So is the wind. And four times today we were hit by boomerang gusts...