I left out a lot of personal stuff that happened since the kids visited in March, but this is a van life blog, not my personal blog. However, to explain my travels from this point on, I’ll say things were not going well in Florida and I was beside myself trying to manage the situation […]
A month of no van travel saw me continuing to settle back into the daily pattern of commuting and HMB life. But guess who turned TWO?! We flew the kids out for N’s 2nd birthday this weekend. We kicked it off by taking her to Chabot Space and Science. She was a little young for […]
‘Tis the Season!
T took us on a holiday light tour by boat. So fun!
I still hadn’t given up my fantasizing about more space and laundry facilities. My mom flew in to visit and accompanied me to look at a not-quite-finished tiny house for sale. We had been tossing around the idea of a container house built on an elevated platform on the river lot where we parked the […]
Soaking up these memories while I can. She is precious.
KT arrived and after retrieving him from the airport, we stopped to visit our good friends and former neighbors from Virginia who moved to Sarasota. Then my dad arrived for Halloween. Family dinner and photos at Fisherman’s Village.
Ian struck Cayo Costa island (one of my favorite beaches, and yes, the same one I kayaked to a year earlier) at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor where it meets the Gulf on September 28th. The kids live right up the river from there. However, since the property was on the north side of the […]
Ian’s track prediction changed at the last minute before landfall after becoming a Category 5 storm, and was now targeting the kids’ location directly with warnings of up to 18 feet of storm surge. I was completely consumed tracking Ian and getting the kids to evacuate somewhere safe since they live on the water. The […]
I was pretty out of it in Tahoe, still weaning off the meds and a shell of myself. Our daughter (A) was traveling nearby, but lost, so we had her stop for the night with us as well with her cat, so she and her cat slept in the van with me. She was on […]