There's a rhythm to a journey, at least when it's going well. That's especially true of traveling with a companion...
At long last
Tag: Jeep
Embracing the space
We slept with AC off and windows open last night, a refreshing change in more ways than one. We're living this American Life outdoors, for the most part, and the outdoors lately has been downright oppressive...
Deep in ‘America’s Breadbasket’
Deb and I have avoided planning days longer than 300 miles, especially after that blitz run we made from Arkansas to Texas in June...
Ideal
We're boondocking tonight, a one-and-done at a Harvest Hosts participant in west-central Missouri. We're on battery power right now, bolstered periodically by the generator and augmented by propane...
Pulling it all together
The weather forecast for the end of our stay in northern Arkansas is far from appealing -- in the 90s every day...
One year
Today's header image doesn't depict Ernie or Mercy, and it wasn't snapped anywhere close to northern Arkansas...
Down all day & back up again
For most of my adult life I've been a "morning person"...
We have a plan
Mercy continues to impress. We've run this ten-year-old Jeep through a variety of everyday tests, on paved roads and unpaved tracks, and we feel not a whiff of regret...
Not yet. Not today.
We've been here so long that the grass on our campsite needs mowing. It wasn't our aim to live up to an aphorism...
This is only a test
Tomorrow will be the day that Deb's cousin comes over to help me sort the Ernie-to-Mercy electrical connection. The brief plug-in test I conducted the other day...
