In the air, out of air

There's a daily cycle of life in a campground. Shortly after sunrise many guests pack up, roll out and head for their next stop. The park staff swoops in...

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...

A good strong pull

I believe I've wanted a winch since 1978. I can be specific about that because 1978 was when I bought my first four-wheel-drive vehicle...

At eleven weeks

Ernie's first full day with solar capabilities began as a total washout. There was no sun to be seen. It occurs to me that there’s something perfectly perfect about that...

Ernie breaks into the sun

As I plugged the coiled blue electrical cable into Ernie and Mercy early this morning, meaning to test the towing connection, it already was obvious that today would be a scorcher...

Taking over

When we drove Mercy home from the truck-accessories shop yesterday, we did so without paying our bill in full...

Closer

Some days turn out to be productive but not particularly interesting, and this was such a day...

‘Nowhere near done’

This is turning out to be quite the American Life. It'd be cliché to call it a "lifestyle"...

The grocer

Ernie is, for the foreseeable future, our home. That reality, as I've said many times, carries the responsibility of...