December 12, 2022

Glamping?

Ever since we bought Toto, our baby Airstream, I have preferred wild camping to RV Park camping. Wild camping is camping in the middle of nowhere, with no services. One must be completely self-sustainable. There are no toilets, no water, no power available. Just you and what you have with you. RV Park camping has its place. When it’s very warm, being plugged in to shore power is a luxury (or even a necessity), as air conditioning will not run off the RV’s batteries; it requires more power than they can provide. And when at a typical RV Park, one has access to unlimited water, power and the ability to…

January 29, 2022

Waste Not, Want Not

In these pandemic days, it is easy to become a hermit. This is not exactly why I have been absent from these pages since last spring, but it is why I decided to focus on family and my responsibility to be present for 16 young children in the classroom. All the while trying to avoid the Coronavirus, which so far, I have managed to do. I certainly did not stop thinking about the challenge of finding adventures near and far. As my fellow ripper faithfully reports, we are casting our net as far as we dare in new directions while also appreciating what is outside our front door. But now…