Meltdown
I’m breaking my promise not to publish another “All by Myself” meltdown. But, sticking to the themes of It’s my blog and I’ll cry if I want to, as well as my desire to create a faithful record of the...
View ArticleMile Zero of the The Dempster Highway
“Did you just come off the Dempster?” “Yes!” the man washing his mud caked RV angrily barks back at me. More tentatively, “uh, how was it?” “Dreadful! Awful! It rained all the way up and all the way...
View ArticleThe Arctic Ocean! I made it!
I made it to the Arctic Ocean! Since there is no road access to the ocean in the summer, I had to fly the last 60 miles to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, a tiny Inuvialuit community right on the...
View ArticleAlaska
“Did the entire building just shake back and forth?” The woman on the other end of the phone line speaks to me with emphatic calmness, “Yes, we just had a little earthquake, but everything is fine.”...
View ArticleThe Voices in My Head
I’m bored. As I’ve made my way back to the Texas Gulf Coast, I’ve had this nagging feeling of… So now what? And another nagging feeling of…I really missed David. I don’t want to feel that emptiness for...
View ArticleNomadic Simplicity, deconstructed
What do I love about it? material simplicity – the psychological freedom this provides cannot be exaggerated breaking out of the consumer culture escaping the suburbia trap a sense of endless adventure...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned so far (revised and expanded!)
This is the post I’d written for Monday, but I had an unexpected this-feels-too-personal reaction and didn’t want to publish it. Maybe it is because it came from a journal entry, since it isn’t that...
View ArticleIt’s Getting Simpler
I’m loving simplifying and continue to do so. The longer I live in my Mini, the more I let go of. I used to have two closets full of really expensive clothes, and now I wear the same few outfits over...
View ArticleRemembering Things
Walking through the ruins of the ancient Pueblo people’s homes in Bandelier National Monument, I was thinking of Dan’s comment about our attachment to items that function as placeholders for our...
View ArticleWriting about Writing
I still feel like I’ve gone into a bit of a hibernation/quiet mode. My travel experiences have been wonderful and I want to share them with you! I just feel at a loss for words when I sit down and try...
View ArticleTithing 10%
I was halfway to Quartzsite, had a meltdown and ran home to my husband. I am having a harder time being away from him right now. I’ve decided/felt/realized that I need to start giving away 10% of my...
View ArticleAnd Now For Something Completely Different
I know this blog is probably considered an RV blog, since that is mostly what I have been focused on over the last year or more. But, for me, it has really been a blog about my psychological and...
View ArticleNow that we’re alone….
Thanks to all of you who are still checking in on me. I appreciate the notes and comments throughout my blog! I’m not sure why I’ve taken a break. Some of you who’ve been reading for a while have...
View ArticleDon’t Help Me!
“Jennifer, I am worried about you. Your brother told me he thinks you are exhausted and overwhelmed.” My mother’s concern feels like nails on a chalkboard to me. “Mom, I am fine. I am resting right...
View ArticleWhat it felt like to go from an RV to a House
In June of 2010, I wrote about my thoughts on the transition from a traditional home to an RV, but I didn’t get to share my experience of transitioning from an RV back into a traditional house. I lived...
View ArticleHow to Not Own Anything?
This seems to be part of what I am struggling with right now. What do I NEED to have? I can’t stop analyzing my RV, van, and trailer options. I am even researching tiny houses, earth bag houses, yurts,...
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