Gimme a Break
We’re so used to writing about bikes, hikes parks and attractions that it’s hard to write about shelter-in-place life when no adventuring is going on in our tiny existence other than streaming the new season of Ozark! Time killers Last
Buying the Bayou
When the April camping cancellation email hit the inbox telling us Big Bend National Park is closed til May 11 it was time for Buying the Bayou. Camping cancelled We’d put it off as long as we could, starting with
Barksdale National Park
Barksdale Air Force Base is home to a fleet of B-52 Stratofortress bombers. These B-52’s that fly over our heads each afternoon entered service in 1961 (before we were born) proving age is just a number. A movie star in
Gimme Shelter
What does it mean to shelter in place when your place is 30 feet of RV continually moving across the country? COVID-19 made us answer that question. Sure, we knew about the Coronavirus when we departed Maryland, but the DOW
Health & Happiness in Hot Springs, Arkansas
No Parade Today It was supposed to be Grand Marshalls Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo leading The World’s Shortest St Patricks Day Parade with musical guests Blues Traveler and Foghat of Smoke on the Water fame. Instead it was Brennan
Social Distancing at Mammoth Cave
If you are a couple of RV’rs driving around the country, you may not have a clue as to what is going on in the day-to-day worlds of politics, economics or current events. Many days we don’t have the 110v
Smoky Mountain Spring
You don’t know what you don’t know until you know. We thought 8 days in the Smokies would be plenty. We thought Smoky Mountain Spring would be snow-free. We learned. Three campgrounds are open year round – Smokemont in the
Life on the road with waterfalls
We’re a bit early to experience Spring in the Smokies. Snowrain showers instead of wildflowers, closed roads and campgrounds, cold nights and warm-ish days make off-the-grid living a challenge when the sun is not quite ready to cooperate. Solar Required
Clingmans Dome All Alone
There’s no higher vista in Great Smoky Mountain National Park than Clingmans Dome. 6,643 feet. Motorists make a 7 mile, 1,600 foot elevation climb on a paved and winding road to summit parking, then hike 330 feet higher for 360
Newton Bald-faced Lie
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that bodies in motion tend to stay in motion and bodies at rest tend to stay at rest. If we have to be honest with ourselves, we binged a few too many streaming series