Apr 27
I’ve been thinking a lot about vintage VW owners today, particularly after having been stood up on a drive n’ wave by a Vanagon owner (the audacity!) Vintage beetle people are not always Bus people. But Bus people are always Bus people. That’s to say, Beetle owners are sometimes motorheads who love an old, supercharged [...]
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Apr 20
Please check out Wand’rly Magazine, our latest foray into writing about our travels!
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Dec 31
Last night’s clothes still intact and my Lady still sleeping deep beneath the sheets in the room we’d rented for a couple of nights, I snuck down the long stairway from the hotel room in the heart of Old Bisbee to step into the already daylight 7am sky of a New Year’s Eve on the [...]
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Sep 07
Some of the more expensive aspects of living in a Volkswagen Bus, along with some ways to save money.
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Jul 25
The Upper Peninsula of this Great Lakes land of Michigan has proven so dual in nature, the homey feeling of bug open forests and blue expansive lakes mixed with cold cans of beer folk living simple and hard lives. I could see me growing up here and ending up a very similar person. A mama [...]
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Jul 17
Leaving New England, and as we passed through what New York had left and exchanged $10 / pack cigarettes for the Pennsylvania Wilds, heading back to Pittsburgh via the PA Grand Canyon and all of it’s splendor, it certainly feels like we’re finishing one trip to embark on another. The next stretch, through Ohio and [...]
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Jul 02
A fella corrected me today on my declaration that we’d been “camping for a few nights” by reinforcing the well known belief that if you’re not in a tent, you’re not roughing it. He was a nice enough old gent, red in the neck but floral hippie of hat, and in the few several moments [...]
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Jul 01
Two lanes, winding curves and endless green (rolling mountains, riverside flora, a myriad variety of trees, and early summer farm sprouts alike) are no doubt what’s put Vermont State Route 100 on countless “Best Drives in America” lists. Winding like a loop around and through the Green Mountains, a range of not-so-high-when-compared-to-the-Rockies but deceptively large [...]
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Jun 29
Stones stacked like an ancient set of Legos line two lane highways shaded in the tunnel of endless forest canopy and on the other side miniature farms, hobby farms and small farms and tiny white fence lined horse ranches rather than the cow factories you’ll see out West. The sun holds still high in the [...]
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