Ahoy, Matey : April – May 2022

My longest post to date and it’s not even about the van. After returning to the California coast, I settled back into “sticks and bricks” life (phrase for living in a conventional house), commuting to the office and harbor watching when home. Caleb had been a romantic (to me) fixture in the harbor since before […]

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Tiny House Expo : January 30, 2022

A Facebook ad popped up for a Tiny House Expo in Pinellas Park, so we took a day to go visit. We had become Harvest Host members and I found a HH bar in downtown St. Pete I was able to make a reservation for. The deal with Harvest Hosts, at least at the time, […]

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Rain Swamped

I’ve searched and don’t see any tropical activity during this week, so it must have just been a lot of rain. But the yard flooded pretty bad. An unfortunate precursor to things to come.

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Water Spirit

My happy place is on the water. I missed my Epic Surfski left behind in California, so I started watching FB Marketplace for a new one. I found a Nelo Viper in St. Petersburg and drove up to buy it. It barely fit in the van. I had to stick the nose under the dashboard […]

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