After attending to medical issues in the Bay Area, it was time for me to set out in the van on my own with my loyal companion, my dog, Riley (so not entirely solo). Our daughter, A, had graduated from high school a year prior and thanks to Covid, could attend college classes online. Half […]
I can’t believe I don’t have any pictures of this, because it was a heck of a story! We made our way toward the California coast, with an eye to Glass Beach, but stopped short of the coast at a Cal Fire Demonstration Forest, which was a “first come first serve” (FCFS) campground. It was […]
I’m pretty sure this was the first time we tried BLM land. I’m also pretty sure it’s the first (but not the last) time we got the van stuck. But first, we stopped in Wendover, NV after crossing out of Utah, where we saw the giant cowboy. As for getting stuck, we followed a trail […]
We dipped down to Colorado just for fun. I mean, why not? It was soooo close!
I attended my 30th HS reunion in Northern Illinois and had a nice visit with my mom and brothers while we street camped in front of my mom’s house. As long as you register the license plate with the county, you’re golden. I was starting to remember who I was as a person and begin […]
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 […]
I was going through a profoundly transformative period at the time—one of those defining moments you only fully understand years later when looking back. Striking the right balance here isn’t easy: I want to be honest about the deep physical and mental turmoil I experienced without oversharing the details. There have been two truly devastating […]
We went to “just look”. I had been “van curious” for awhile, after seeing several around Half Moon Bay and wondering about their interiors. Could you sleep in them? Was it like rustic camping or a little more glam? I had cabin fever pretty bad post-pandemic, and still didn’t trust air travel. I had researched […]