When I was seventeen my dad took me to Lake Tahoe. He’d rented some kind of condo room on the bottom floor, next to the lake, with our sliding door opening to a view of exquisite mountains in the distance. Very soon after we arrived, I started feeling something I couldn’t describe. All I knew was that when I was outside I didn’t want to look directly at the gigantic mountains. They seemed unreal and I felt very disconnected from…
My Four Wheel Camper isn’t huge. It’s rather small inside, actually. Most of the time it works great for me and the dogs – they hang out up on the cab-over bed, and I do my cooking and computering or reading in the main area when inside. When I went on my previous no-destination adventure, I had this camper pretty set up for my daily needs. Just a few clothes, one storage container of food, only necessary cooking and kitchen…
This feeling of teetering on a ledge has been strong these past few weeks. I realized that it might help to assuage that feeling if I had more of a plan in place so I went to the campering forum of folks who also have truck campers like mine, where I’ve made a number of friends over the past few years. I wanted to look for ideas of places to go on this trip, and I glanced at my profile…
Last year about two days after I arrived in Columbia, Mo, the metal legs on my back seat platform fell off. The spot welds that existed on the table I converted for this project weren’t strong, and I hadn’t secured them when I first built this. I didn’t have access to a welder at the time, so I got some 2×4 cut and screwed those new, bulkier legs into the top and have had that in the back seat area…
I just realized that my “mail chimp” program that auto-sends you an email when I post a new blog post has been paused! The horror! Hopefully, I fixed that just now, so I’m posting this to catch y’all up since I’m getting back to adventuring! Here’s “Getting Back on the Road!” http://www.no-destination.org/index.php/2018/06/30/getting-back-on-the-road/ and the most recent “Making Plans” http://www.no-destination.org/index.php/2018/07/02/making-plans/ If you haven’t already subscribed, put your email address in where is says “Subscribe to No Destination” on the right side bar, and…
In three parts. I. I’ve been ruminating this past week about what to do with all my stuff. I have a small Uhaul storage unit for my climate controlled items (books, mostly), and my motorcycles and garage stuff is at a friend’s place. It’s tempting to just donate it all, but the problem is … I rather like my books, have a couple of boxes of dad paperwork and photos, my truck rear seats that I took out when I…