Or, the van is dead! Long live the van! Brian stayed home from church Sunday morning because he’s been ill and was still not feeling […]
Oren moved out
where I give a shout out to The Terrible Cough, The Move, The Camper Van, and Empty Nesting It’s been almost two weeks. He caught […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 3: Reconnaissance, or 5 things this trip taught us.
The word reconnaissance, when not used as a military term means, “preliminary surveying or research.” It has its roots in the French reconnaitre (recognize) and […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 2: Different than I remember
Vacations are the act of grabbing minutes and hours and days with both hands, stealing against the inevitability of time. Cold Tangerines About a year […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 1: 8 days to departure
We’re getting ready to go on a road trip. Less than two weeks to go now, and we’re already stressed to the ends of our […]
In consideration of home
There’s no need to go looking for home… unless you’re lost… from Staying Put, Scott Russell Sanders For a long time, I have been reluctant […]
Climber-mom-rant, a retrospective
Last year at this time, I was thinking about writing a big rant about about how my sons don’t want to climb or be climbers. […]
#brian&jen2.0
So, last week we bought another VW Eurovan. From 2009 until 2016, we owned a 2001 VW Eurovan Westphalia Weekender, and we loved it. I […]
