Road Writer Blogs

Month: November 2024

  • WIP Snippet

    One of the delightful discoveries of our retirement campervan travels has been that, with power from our onboard solar panels, we can actually do work while we travel, preparing lessons for courses we are still teaching, getting ready to offer science teacher workshops, and others.  We can also work on our special projects, Mary cross-stitching…

  • Campervan Adventures in Old Haunts!

    When my wife and I were “courting” way back in graduate school days in Tennessee, we took a trip to Fall Creek Falls on the Cumberland Plateau and hiked through the woods through a steady rain, boasting to each other about which of us had the better raincoat (learning how to share life challenges together!)…

  • Spontaneity:  Joy of the Road!

    My wife and I began planning our joint retirement four years in advance (calling those four years our freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of retirement, building up to a sense of beginning rather than ending).  As the senior year marched toward graduation, we decided that it would be great fun to get a little…