I am writing this on a humid Sunday afternoon, three days before we shove off for one hundred days of travel. Our little cabin in the woods will sit mostly empty save for three weeks in July when a concert violinist, his cellist spouse, their two teenagers and a dog call this spot home. The …

“One and done” might be our hope in our personal and professional lives, but it rarely proves to be so. In my 64 years, I’ve learned that almost everything is like the pencils we got in first grade: you use it, then you sharpen it. Repeat! Another highlight of first grade was kissing Dale Benerofe …

My stepfather turned 89 last week and my mother will reach that same milestone in November. To me, people living that long is truly amazing. When I was a ten year old boy, I thought 89 was friggin’ ancient. For Pete’s sake, that was people who were born in the 1880’s and said “for Pete’s …

In between chapters of whatever book I’m reading on Kindle, I like to peruse Reddit. My feed is full of cars, guitars, birds and lots of user-created questions like this one… “Which rock bands should just retire”? As you might imagine, the answers people post are focused on the bands that peaked in the 1970s …

Today, I ordered our Starlink kit, the go-to WiFi router and satellite dish for nomadic adventuresrs. I started seeing these kits last season. I’m looking forward to not depending on our cell service or the sometimes spotty internet connections at campsites. When we traveled across the country a few years ago, the technology was all …