In all the ways that matter, it's simpler than any life we've ever known...
Tag: Shakedown cruise
The first full day
Two years ago today, our new American Life began...
Birthday boy
The number "21" has popped up a lot the last few years...
Getting the band back together
"If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I'd just as soon stay home..."
That’s two
Yesterday's SCOTUS decision doesn't end the war, but it's an important battle won...
Flashback: One year ago today
This is what I posted last April 30th. Reading it now, knowing what would follow, gave me chills...
Lentils are for soup
Prosperity and adversity, town and country, joy and sadness, music and silence...
Shaken, not stirring
In 727 miles we went from the relative peace and easy pace of the uncrowded Ozarks to urban sprawl, bone-rattling roads and the manic tempo of a place we've lived for the better part of two decades...
Campgrounds: Our recommendations
I apologize that it's taken me a couple of months to pull this together, but I'm ready to share...
Happy ‘Gotcha Day,’ Ernie
This bus has been at the center of the very best days of our lives...









