March 24, 2021 I miss my friends from Ocean Springs. I loved the checking in with them once a week, reading my little essay, having a...

March 20, 2021 Today is the vernal equinox, the sun crossed the equator at 2:37 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time. The sun suspended over our...

February 25, 2021 As I leave my camp in Gautier, Mississippi, there’s a sign along the road: “Your passion is waiting for your courage to...

February 17, 2021 It was 23 degrees when I woke this morning at Shepherd State Park and no electricity. The space heater must have...

February 2, 2021 Shepherd State Park, Mississippi Across the bayou now, egrets rise from the water sparkling through the green screen of...

January 20, 2021 I’ve been feeling a bit cooped up here at Shepherd State Park. We had a couple long days of dreary cold rain and I...

January 9, 2021 In Gautier, Mississippi there’s a car repair place called Advanced Collision. What happened this past week at the...

January 7, 2021 The sun has just slipped below the bayou brush. Beneath the oak, the sweetgum, hickory and magnolia trees, I have a very...

December 23, 2020 Now, here I am a few days before Christmas, at a woodsy state park along the coast in Mississippi, on the edge of a...

December, 20, 2020 I don’t know which is worse, breaking off part of my nose or splitting my reading glasses in two. For the third night...

December 17, 2020 Davis Bayou Campground The thing about this kind of travel is what puts the move in you to get started? And once you...

December 8, 2020, Davis Bayou campground, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi I left my daughter’s in Annapolis a week ago and...

November 6, 2020 Somehow I crossed the Rockies after the snow; which was whiter? my knuckles on the steering wheel or the mountains?...

November 2020 How many times have I crossed the country? It’s difficult to count for sometimes I went part way, turned back, flew a leg,...

Time to move on and make tracks across the colorful country to stay ahead of the weather. October, 2020 Here I am in camp again, I like...

June 2020 The phone rings and I fumble through several pockets before I find it. Hello. Have you ever noticed that some visits pick right...

May 26, 2020, campground near Concrete, Washington We begin with all sorts of enthusiasm to start a new adventure, whether it be travel...

Go Forth Observe and Listen To Nature's Teaching In the Open Woods Visualize the journey All who wander are not lost It's not the...

May 12, 2021 This is but one narrative; each of us got through the past year in a different way. I chose to hide out and write. I...

May 18, 2021 I saw a sign on someone’s car today in the Walmart parking lot: Restless and Refurbished. There’s a title, to mull over. ...