I hope you are doing well wherever you are, noticing the changes in the seasons, the skies, your own energy. And I hope you are breathing often. I mean, really breathing. To ground yourself, to give yourself permission to pause, to slow it all down. It’s the only way to stay sane and centered when everything around you is a...
Read MoreA Convenient Inconvenience
We were supposed to be on the road today, heading west and north to our summer volunteer job on the Oregon coast. But two Saturdays ago, after a delightful dinner out with friends, we came home, turned the AC down and lost electricity in the RV. And we smelled something burning. We followed the smell to the 30 amp plug in the sewage compartment where...
Read MoreSouthern Arizona
We’re in our last traveling days before pulling into Phoenix for the month of April. We’ve been mostly hop-skipping our way west, with shorter one and two night stop overs every two hundred miles between Galveston and southern Arizona, where we’re relaxing for this last week. We spent a long weekend outside of Austin near the lower Colorado River, in...
Read MoreA Souvenir From Georgia
It’s our very last day in Georgia, after a great, three-month volunteering gig at Fort Pulaski National Monument between Savannah and Tybee Island. We’ve learned all kinds of things about the Civil War, fortifications, and cannon (which is the plural of cannon). We know more about the low country Gullah Geechee culture that is being wiped out by...
Read MoreEndings and Beginnings
It has been a very full two weeks. We’ve been shadowing the park rangers on their daily tours of the fort, learning different tidbits from each presenter. We had training for ringing up sales on the computer register, and this past weekend, we participated in the Fort’s annual Candle Lantern event, a re-enactment of the Christmas...
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