Road Writer Blogs

Category: Road Journal

  • 40th Anniversary Adventures in the Campervan!

    Mary and I are off on another adventure, this one for our 40th anniversary together!  Our primary objective is to explore the Channeled Scablands, a spectacular geology feature of Washington State formed when a glacial ice dam broke in Montana and spilled a million billion gallons of water across the landscape of Washington toward the…

  • Wishing for Something to Give Away

    There is always some impetus that drives or beckons a person to do what they do.  For some people, that might be hunger, literal or metaphorical.  For others it might be attention, or influence, or power.  For some, perhaps wealth or comfort of living. Me?  I have always hoped to give something away that others…

  • Time in Minnesota

    Isn’t time interesting?  We don’t really know what time is or where it comes from, but, as we grow older, we start to feel its irreversibility.  What’s more, we humans love to write and read stories that play with time, perhaps more commonly than any other science-fictiony idea. Mary and I encountered time on our…

  • Hills of Tennessee

    Despite our misadventures last year with the rear door of our van, we are on our way again this year to visit my son Fenner and his wife Janna in Florida over Christmas!  We are very excited, leaving home at temperature below zero and moving toward lows in the fifties and even sixties!  As we…

  • Campervan Road Adventures!

    Adventure means more than hiking past rocky outcrops, visiting old haunts, and seeing family!  Adventure means stumbling into challenging circumstances! We were in Florida to help our son move into his new apartment in Orlando for his new job with Lockheed-Martin when the lock failed on the rear doors of our van!  We could not…

  • 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…