29,380 Miles • My Independence Day
Yesterday I visited the house I lived in when I was little, had a big catharsis about the life I…
Category: 20,000-30,000 miles
29,278 Miles • This is Where Everything Broke
Names are important. Lake Placid. Mount Poke O Moonshine. Adirondacks. The places themselves are important, but the names somehow, mystically,…
28,944 Miles • Shaker Simplicity
Heading northwest from Hartford toward New York and the Adirondacks, I found some lovely mountainous roads along a small river…
28,858 Miles • Noah Webster
Two years ago, I visited Noah Webster’s birthplace in Hartford, Connecticut, and even went into the building, but was put…
28,811 Miles • Two Years in the Van Report
This is the middle of what I consider my third *season* of van living, but since I moved in right…
28,669 Miles • Farewell, Grammy
As expected, the family gathering in Connecticut went better than expected. After my rant about my anxiety, and then getting…
28,288 Miles • A Short Detour into the French Revolution
In the spring of 1776, an embittered France, angry and smarting from losing its North American colonies to Britain in…
28,097 Miles • On Rules, Not Liking Myself, and Confusion in the Alleghenies
Deeper into Allegheny National Forest, I made camp for a few nights at a designated site along one of the…
28,069 Miles • My Heart is Content
In the Allegheny Forest of western Pennsylvania is a spot called Hearts Content National Recreation Area. The name is fitting…
27,917 Miles • First Sighting of Lake Erie
Sign: variable speed limit ahead — What does that even mean? Sign on a restaurant billboard: “An edible experience.” —…