One Year on the Road

A year ago, I felt such unity with the people of this country. Kate and I were midway through our nook-and-cranny travels through the lower 48, and although we often felt out of place, we’d made a commitment to never…

Last fall, Kate and I were driving through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in a cacophony of color. Visiting Provincetown for Women’s Week. Watching a cranberry bog get harvested in Cape Cod. And riding in an Amish buggy in Pennsylvania. A New England…

Eighteen months ago, our best friends pulled long faces when we hit the road for more than a year, and they gleefully welcomed us into their driveway at the end of our journey. This week we were the ones holding…

In the last month of our road journey, my sister called with the news that she has breast cancer. My energetic, athletic, upbeat sister, who runs every day, is in maddeningly perfect shape, has never had a serious illness, and…

Before we were RV’ers, we were avid campers. We tented in the redwoods when our youngest, who was just learning to walk, discovered the pure joy of full-body dirt emersion. We coaxed the kids along backpacking trails with the meager…

Way back in January, our friends Kathy and Robin made reservations to camp for Kathy’s birthday in July and asked us to join them. We didn’t know if we’d still have Bessie then or be back in our old teardrop,…